Painted Silk Abaca Flower and Headband (2 days) – 9.30am – 3.30pm (uk time) – Thursday 1st & Friday 2nd October 2020

The course will involve:

• Learning how to create flowers from Silk Abaca and to paint the petals to give a natural effect.
• Creating a headband using the draping qualities of silk abaca

You will need:

• .5 m silk Abaca in natural colour
• 2 hair bands which ideally are covered and can be sewn together at the bottom.
• PVA stiffener
• 2 Small pots of acid dyes crystals.  A good one is  Easifix ALLinONE Acid dye crystals – available here.  www.coloucraft-ltd.com  No added fixatives needed
• 3 Small paintbrushes. Small flat artists brushes are good or small household paintbrushes will do
• 3 glass jars to hold water and liquids
• A couple of old newspapers
• Water spray (not essential)
• Needle
• Thread
• Scissors
• Measuring tape
• Hairdryer
• Pattern template (supplied by us)

Prep work

Stiffener 25cm (width) of your 50cm width of abaca with pva diluted 1:3

You will leave with:

• Knowledge on painting flowers
• A understanding of creating an abaca headband

To see more photos of our students work on this course, please link to the following facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/pg/jrmillineryschool/photos/?tab=album&album_id=410445582974921