Silk Fusion and Fabric Paper

Sunday was spent playing with silk and more silk, a little bit of wool and a whole lot of water.

We started the day out by making silk fusion by the instructions provided by Treenway. Please read and follow Treenways instructions for the first time making silk fusion.  We don’t follow directions very well and it is a good idea to learn the proper way first before you start breaking all the rules.

With silk fusion the fibers are layered the same way they are for felting, at right angles so that the fibers mesh and adhere to each other.

First Organza is laid down and the first layer of silk is laid down right to left in a thin layer.  The second layer of silk fiber is laid down top to bottom (or at a 90 degree angle) on top of the first. The third layer is the fun layer where you add your dyed silks and start embedding in any silk type embellishments that you like.

 Here are some silk ribbons added to the fusion.

After everything is place where you like it you cover the whole piece with organza and wet the whole piece.  You will need to flip it over and also wet the material from the back as well.  Once very wet sponge off some of the water so the fibers are damp then paint a mixture of textile medium and water over the whole piece.  The silk will take on a milky white look. This material is then placed on a window screen to dry, this can take a bit of time.

Here are two pieces of silk fusion that we made during the day.

Silk Fusion can also be made over forms and these are pictures of Celeste’s piece making a bowl.

After trying the silk fusion we went on to break all the rules that we just learnt about silk fusion and started making our own version of silk fusion crossed with fabric paper. To see the results of the combination check out the fabric paper page as I have edited the instructions a bit  and added some new pictures.  Please leave comments and let us know if you are liking these projects or not.  Thanks