I got a big container for Silk Screen Fabric Gel by Golden last month and have been itching to try it out. Finally got to that a few days ago. I’ve been screening with a combination of matte medium and fabric medium with good image results but not great fabric results. It left the hand of the fabric stiff and rather plastic like. Rather defeating the point of it being on fabric and not fun to sew on. So hence, the experimenting with silk screen mediums. I know, I know! I hear you saying but there are already silk screen paints already out there, why not use those? Because I’m stubborn and have to do it differently. I want to be able to mix any color I want or not use any color at all. Sorry I didn’t take any photos of the screening process. Really nothing new there to show. But what comes with this silk screen fabric gel is a big orange and black ‘x’ on the side of the jar.

For that reason I ironed the screened images outside. Yes, there was a bit of a funky odor. Nothing awful. But open a window or turn on an exhaust fan when you do this. So here’s the ironing outside on the picnic table.

Here’s the images. Really just tests of the mediums. The images were made out of things I just threw together.I like the stuff. It leaves the fabric looking and feeling like fabric.

With these, I screened once with plain gel then again with tinted gel, all while wet. It does take a few hours to dry before you can iron. But it’s been rather humid so that could vary.

Then this morning I got curious about if this stuff could be used in an image transfer and leave the same fabric feel behind. So I found an old image and tried it. It worked.

I think you may need to use a larger amount of the stuff. This came out a little faded. But I slapped it on pretty quick and unevenly. And I had to leave it for at least an hour before I had a decent transfer. So interesting to say the least.

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