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10 Tips for Getting Started with Fabric Paints
With a few colors and a suitable brush, fabric painting opens up endless opportunities for transforming your wardrobe and your home. Here are some tips to help.

Fabric Stamping or Fabric Printing: An Alternative to Fabric Painting
Fabric stamping is a quick and easy way to get fabulous results when fabric painting.

Turn Your Acrylics Into Fabric Paint
Did you know there's an acrylic medium that turns any acrylic paint into a fabric paint which can be brushed, airbrushed, or screen-printed onto fabric? It leaves the fabric soft and, if heat set, can be washed as normal.

Is There a Medium for Acrylic Paints that Makes it Suitable for Silk Painting?
Is there a medium that you can add to acrylic paint to make it suitable for silk painting? Find out here...

Artist's Copyright FAQ: Copying a Fabric Design
Is it okay to copy a fabric design or to paint your own version thereof, or are fabric designs copyrighted?

Hand Marbling: How to Marble Fabric
Hand marbling is a method for painting fabric (or paper) that involves floating paints on a solution, manipulating these into patterns, then transferring them onto fabric (or paper).About’s Quilting Guide has written a great step-by-step hand marbling tutorial explaining the process from beginning to finish.

How to Tie Dye
Basic instructions on tie-dying, from About's Family Crafts Guide. Includes links to a list of essential supplies and specific folds to achieve various designs.

How to Screen Print
An illustrated step-by-step explaining how to do simple screen printing, using an embroidery hoop and basic "ingredients" rather than expensive equipment.

Spray Painting a Design onto a T-Shirt
How to spray-paint designs onto a T-shirt (or anything, really), using a stencil.

Book Review: Complex Cloth - A Guide to Surface Design
A review of a book that explains a variety of fabric-painting techniques, including stencilling, stamping, painting, bleach discharge, and photocopy transfers.

Book Review: Skydyes - A Visual Guide to Fabric Painting
A review of a book by Mickey Lawler, who is renowned for her hand-painted fabrics, that demonstrates how to create your own sky, sea, and earth fabrics using loose, 'watercolor' fabric-painting techniques.

Creating a Floorcloth
An information sheet from Golden on creating a floorcloth, from materials needed to preparation to edge finishing.

Silk Painting Techniques
A collection of tips and techniques for silk painting from The Guild of Silk Painters.

Silk Painting Decorative Effects
Great photos of the results of silk painting experiments using cotton wool, lace, rope, muslin, and other materials.

Textile Painting Techniques
An overview of various techniques and methods for painting fabric, from Belgium textile artist Laura Liebenberg.