The Speedball lino cut inks, blocks and safety knives are made to prepare and print clear edged images. Indeed many will have first met the Caran d’Ache name in childhood with a special gift of the pencils and the message to “treat them with respect and they will do well for you”. We selected the Howard Brush carders as the best available since the correct design of the card cloth is fundamental to all carding, whether by hand or on huge industrial machines. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] The Speedball screen printing inks are pre-mixed with a binder and include the four process colours, magenta, cyan, yellow and black as well as many valuable tints and shades as well as the more difficult colours to mix from these, such as shocking pink and purple.

This selection of painting tools provide the artist with a large choice of applicators for a variety of techniques including painting with acrylics, oils, watercolours, silk paints and dyes. This superior quality foam board is designed to be rigid, sturdy and easy to cut – making it highly versatile and ideal for mounting, as backing material for prints, making models and framing flat artwork. Nine years later, in the hands of its founder, it took the nom-de-plume of a famous illustrator, Caran d’Ache. Hat Shapers – Felt Hats have traditionally been hand formed on a wooden, head sized and shaped, block.expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] Superior engineering and high quality workmanship have underpinned Louet’s spinning and weaving equipment for the past 30 years and remains very important to this day. The brushes can be used to paint water over watercolours to help blend colours or to dissolve water soluble media such as the watercolour pencils and crayons from Derwent and Caran d’Ache. New: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item in original retail packaging (where packaging . There are also Tinted Charcoal pencils for shading as well as special-purpose items such as the Aquatone range of 24 sticks of water soluble colour.

For the experienced dyer George Weil supplies illuminating and dischargeable acid dyes which are combined with a discharge paste for printing multi-coloured patterned fabrics. Foamboard is made from a sheet of CFC free polystyrene sandwiched between two sheets of smooth acid free paper to form a strong, lightweight and rigid board with a variety of uses. Polyester is very difficult to dye given that the dye vat needs extremely high temperatures to create strong colours.HIGH QUALITY: Strong and lightweight material that is UK manufactured to the highest quality that you have come to expect from the Westfoam range.

Smart-X is a mono-material composite made from 100% polystyrene (no adhesive between core and outer layers) and is 100% Recyclable. There are also the Acid Discharge dyes, which can be removed from fabric with discharge paste, and the Acid Illuminating dyes which can be combined with the discharge paste to replace the colour removed. They can be used to create finer jewellery than the other Art Clay Silver Clay types and produce a harder, enriched silver which can be hallmarked sterling silver. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] Glimakra also make table looms with designs drawing on many years of experience to ensure they are well engineered, easily threaded up and with the operating parts readily to hand.The company now works with a number of spinning mills across Europe who are commissioned to spin yarn and with dye houses to dye the yarns in the Venne range of colours. We recommend finding a weaving course which will introduce you to the basics and give you the opportunity to use a loom before you invest in one. was founded in the late 1960’s responding to the growing craft movement beginning with a commission to make 200 hand spindles. To support the dobby looms, Louet has developed an electronic interface which can replace the lags and pedals of the mechanical dobby loom. Our blogs contains a number of posts to help get you started with these printing techniques for fabrics and paper.