Silk paper

Screen printed wrapping paper. Printed by Dot Studio, London. Print on tissue paper to wrap your products in. Beautiful addition to your business stationery.

In the Pintrest DIY world that we all live in, we are bound to try out a craft or two to spice up our dorm so it looks like we just stepped...

Handmade Silk Paper: Kath Russon: 9780855328931: Amazon.com: Books

As part of my upcoming exhibition 'Passage' at the Caboolture Hub Gallery, I have been exploring silk paper as a medium on which to monoprint. There are several ways of making silk paper. I use the iron method with silk cocoon strippings, where the outer sericin (or gum) in the fibre has not been removed during the industrial process. All silk comes from the cocoon produced by the silk worm (remember them? I think we all had them as 'pets' when we were children). To make silk paper, I lay…

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In this excerpt from “New Twists on Old Fibers,” Christina Pappas considers spider silk from historic and modern perspectives.

Making silk thread. 6-20 filament is reeled through an eye and becomes a single thread of silk. But it takes 2-6 threads to make silk yarn that a weaver can use.

diptyque gift ideas When offered, each product is wrapped into a unique combination of silk papers. Discover the colors' codes behind the scents.

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1st November 2013 Yesterday I used my silk paper to make a variety of cards.... ...silk paper and my pressed flowers. I have made these into a pack of note-lets. A6 cards... Next I made some flowers and petals using free machining and my super soldering iron! I used these pieces for the backing.. I have been able to cross 4 tasks off my 'to do' list so quite pleased!

I am finally coaxing a bit more color from the eucalyptus leaves!

Marbling makes such stunning effects! Learn how marbling inks lets you create amazing patterns for paper marbling

This is a fantastic blend for that special project. The silk lends a beautiful lustrous shine to one side, while the hemp lends strength and body. I've been buying from Dharma for years, and lusting after this fabric for almost as long. I *WANT* this.

Today I met with my local group and we made silk paper. I have done this before and actually it is the first thing I tried when starting out in fiber art. We used either matte medium or textile med…