I want to make a silk that looks like snowflakes falling against a blue sky. My idea is to buy blue silks and drop some drops of bleach here and there to make it look like white dots (snow) against the blue. Will it work? Will the bleach destroy the silk? Thanks.

Jim

Bleach will destroy the silk. Depending how you want the silk to look, you could resist the areas for the snow flakes and then immersion dye the rest. The resisit may not hold up in the water though. In which case, you could go to a batik process (wax) and then dry clean it to get the wax out.

Depending how you plan to use the silk, get a blue silk and airbrush with fabric paint snowflakes. You could use a stencil.

Richard

Thanks, Richard. Good ideas.

Jim

I vote for the wax process.

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander

PS --- If being "crunchy" is OK, use the White Out typist used to use.

You can get regular fabric paint that will add little or no thickness.

Richard

Richard,

Maybe he just invented a new trick "Vanishing Message". Write it on the silk and then bleach the silk! The silk disappears. LOL

Enjoy!

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander