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expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] The Unison Colour business began when John Hersey decided that the manufactured pastels available on the market broke too easily and were not consistent in texture. The huge choice of fine art papers include papers for watercolours, acrylics, oils, pencil, pastels, charcoal and ink, and many of these are available in single sheets, pads, or blocks to use at the easel. The Yarn Management tools include umbrella swifts, ball winders and a choice of other useful winding and skeining tools. Continue reading… For crafts, such as card making and scrapbooking, there are unique handmade papers to add texture and colour and a choice of coloured paper or card in sheets of A4 and A1.
The Derwent Pocket Wrap is a small folding pouch, that will neatly slip into your top pocket or bag with ease. Ashford – Ashford products are manufactured in New Zealand, with the first spinning wheels made in 1940, to an original design, for spinning knitting yarn for socks and caps for the country’s soldiers to wear. It reviews and reports on the work of leading crafts people and exhibitions and includes news from the WSD Guilds. This led him to start importing yarn, particularly from Scandinavia and then to develop his own line of natural yarn, using the name Venne yarns.You will find here fibre reactive Procion MX dyes for cellulose fibres such as cotton, viscose and linen, as well as the protein silk.
This was followed by developing a range of different products such as pads which are still part of the range, canvas panels, stretched canvases, mountboards and artist’s luggage. This manufacturer uses traditional techniques for making the mediums and varnish, with the best quality raw materials sourced from around the world. 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.The silk fabrics include the smooth, finely woven Pongee and Habotai which are ideal for silk painting and Shibori, the Gauze Chiffon which can be used when felting wool to make Nuno felted fabric, the Crepe de Chine which is woven from high twist silk yarns to create a flexible fabric with a soft drape, and the tactile Noil Poplin and Noil Gauze fabrics woven from the remaining fibres from silk cocoon carding. The selection of plant fibres offer further materials for the hand papermaker and need to be boiled in a solution of water and Soda Ash. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] Silk paintings are usually created on white silk fabric. 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”.