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Mass Appeal Learn The Ancient Art of Batik!

Mar 09, 2024
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that we will present to you today Batik is made using a wax resistant manual dyeing technique. Very cool, yeah, wait until you see it now here to show us how to do it. It's Cheryl Ruiz and from Snow Farm, New England Crafts. program now this is the finished product here it's beautiful Cheryl this is it you're here yes it is and this is an older technique but it's still used today it's an older technique that traditionally used a combination of beeswax and paraffin and then it was used As for the color, this is a kind of modern version that uses soy wax and textile paints so that there are no toxic fumes.
mass appeal learn the ancient art of batik
You can do this safely in your kitchen, but the first thing you should do is spread out some newspapers like that just to make sure nothing gets stained at this point. How do we start? There are two ways you can work: you can have the fabric flat on the table and I taped it down with painter's tape or you can stretch it out and these are common stretcher bars which are what artists would use for a canvas and they're just pinned in place. to the frame, all right, so it keeps it nice and keeps it taught everything now, once we have our kroff, we're ready to go, you've got the wax melting right now.
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I have the wax melting, it's just a regular electric skillet, you can pick it up at the Salvation Army thrift store or buy a new one, just make sure you only use it for soy wax, don't use it correctly, don't cook. in it, one of the beauties of soy wax is dumb, it has the right temperature at a very low temperature and I keep this a little bit below the medium, which is the equivalent of 200 or 250 degrees, you can say that it is the correct temperature if it is clear to the eye and does not smoke when smoking it is too hot if it has a milky appearance.
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I know these are the soy wax flakes that you can see when it's melting, it looks milky and then it doesn't. quite hot, so you have to wait until it melts completely and then I can only imagine that we take this and start applying it, we do it, yes, you can use a variety of tools, you can use bristle brushes, you can use simple household tools like potato mashers. it's from a candy, anything that is metal minerals, resins in your house, it has to be those specific materials that you don't want to melt, the right metal or resin works well, we also have these are kind of drawing tools, It's called a discouraging tool. the wax is in the hose in this little hole and it's like in a little cup there and then from this point the wax comes out and the tip has different thicknesses and you basically draw with it and you can see some of the samples of the leaf. shapes that have like a line that were drawn with the addicts amazing, it's amazing, show some techniques that you used in this one, you start and then we'll see if we can emulate what you're doing, okay, I'm going to use this. potato masher because it's also on that sample over there and you can see how easy it is.
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I'll leave it in the wax for a few minutes to warm up while we wait. Now I'll just use a fork. you have those hair ties there just so the hair ties are there, the heat not to protect you from the heat, but to protect your tools from sliding into the last big tip and they're just hair ties, ya You know, for the dollar. store I'm going to use a folded paper towel just for the transport, take the transport, yeah, and then I'll just put it in the wax, but the wax is clear, it's not the wax, it's clear, this is just regular white cotton and current.
You can use silk, you can use rayon, basically any natural fiber. If your fabric is very thick, it will be harder for the wax to penetrate than if it is thin. How does it work when you want to use a painter's brush? The same is cool for a painter. Again a bristle brush not a synthetic brush that melts these are cheap at Home Depot and you're just brushing it on and the idea is where the wax is the paint won't go so you work in layers so this part is where the waxes will always be the white of the fabric that is so clean you know how the potato measurement works if for a design that has wax this one has wax here we are and I'm going to, of course, you want to be very careful every time that you're using it, it's all a very deliberate move haha ​​look at that since I have three different potato mashers all with a different design and I'm sure everyone has one of those right now, when does the paint come in? once it's all done but for television purposes we can add some color now yes it's actually done in layers so if I wanted to start with the light colors and work towards the dark ones at this stage I would put something like yellow and I would have You can use a brush with the paints or with the spray bottle, which is my favorite, let's do your favorite, yeah, that's right, just go ahead and spray it, yeah, wherever you want.
Oh, I like the spray bottle and it's just textile paints in a spray bottle, okay, and then when you finish your design, it won't be one hundred percent finished because to remove the paint you need to wash this to remove the wax that it removes. the wax, so what you do now is go ahead and maybe we can Usually we'll wait for the paint to dry a little bit, this time we won't, but then I'll go over the yellow and draw over it so that the layers that become harmful whatever becomes important, so we'll do like a little bit and this you know you can't make mistakes when you make mistakes, this is a great meal.
I don't need to know how to draw, you know, you can make abstract designs and then you put paint. that so you get a little darker and the place where the line is when the wax is removed will be yellow and you will continue to build up from light to dark and if at the end your whole part of the break is completely covered with wax that's fast, the color Wow , it can't look like a mess, yes, eventually it becomes that and you remove the wax by taking a blank newspaper like the one there, just a normal newspaper, yes, and placing it on the fabric between two layers of newspaper on your ironing board and you just iron until most of the wax is removed and then you just throw it in the washing machine with hot water and when you take it out of the dryer you have this masterpiece, you have that Wow and you can sew them together. you can make asses anything in your house that you would use fabric, you can and you know, make dresses, you can make curtains and we'll let you stick to the arrow, feel free to stay all day if you want and maybe it'll be ready, put this out . the end of the show can't wait let's keep painting thanks Cheryl you're welcome

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