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• Hand painting is an excellent and versatile technique for creatively decorating fabric and fabric items. It is an
excellent technique to use to give old clothes a fresh new look.

Items that cab be hand painted
• Garments: Pants, jackets, shirts, blouses, dresses, skirts, scarf’s etc.
• Household items: Napkins, drapes, table cloths, cushion covers etc.
• Wall hangings etc.
List of Tool & Materials used in Hand painting

• Fabric
Any type of fabric can be painted on however natural fabrics like cotton, silk and linen which are tightly woven
fabrics are the best to use and easiest to decorate or to paint on. Other natural fabrics include muslin, ramie, voile
and poplin.
• Fabric paint
Acrylic based fabric paints are used.
• Brushes

Both round and flat brushes of different sizes are needed.
• Embroidery hoop/ wooden frame
Used for stretching the fabric so that it can be taut to allow the paint to be absorbed the fabric of the fabric and for
easy manipulation. (Large pieces of fabric to be painted on is stretched on a printing table)
Procedure of hand painting
1 Get the design, a light table the fabric and a pencil.
2 Use masking tape to hold the design in place. Put the fabric over the design and tape in place.
3 Using a pencil to lightly trace the design onto the fabric.

4 Complete traced design.
5 Collect all the materials needed: fabric paints, brushes (flat and pointed), water container and palette. Stretch
the fabric using an embroidery hoop in preparation for painting.

6 Paint the different parts of design as per the choice of colors.
Care of hand painted articles
• Drying: Once painting is completed, leave the piece to dry for twenty four hours.
• Heat set: after drying the paint must be ‘set’ into the fabric meaning it must fixed into the fibres of the fabric.
The best way to do this is by heat setting.
- Heat setting is ironing the fabric on the opposite side of where you have painted using a dry iron on a
medium to low level.

• Wait: Wait 4-5 days before washing your garment.

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