I've been working with discharge paste called 'Decolourant' this week. I wanted to make a box from the fabric that i'd made. I had bought a lovely little button from the button show at Macclesfield Silk Museum made by Jane Carmichael. (does anyone know her??)
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it's about 2cms wide and i thought i would make a box to keep it in and wanted to stitch it in a similar style. It has an Indian feel so i thought i would discharge the base velvet fabric using an Indian style stencil. I painted the velvet with teal dye na flow, ironed it to fix then sprayed over with magenta procion dye. Then i sprayed decolourant through the stencil and ironed it while wet, you can see the result above under the button.
of course i got got carried away with machine and hand embroidery....
So much so that i completely covered the original fabric!!
thats what happens i spose.....
