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TAP Artist Transfer Papers

Photo of barn, printed onto TAP papers
Image transfered onto fabric, wash of acrlic paint applied
Machine and hand stitching added to image
Machine and hand stitching added to image

 These papers work on cotton, silk, poly blends, even wood and glass. For a high quality image, make sure you use a good quality cotton such as Kona cotton, pimatex, or cotton lawn.Use crayons, markers, pencils or photos printed from an inkjet printer to transfer images onto the transfer paper. Markers offer a more brilliant color and crayons and pencils will give a more pastel appearance. You can also use watercolor and acrylic paints on the TAP paper.

Silk and wool creations

felted roving balls, silk cocoons strung into bracelet
silk rods hardened with mop and glow, beads, felted ring
Felted vessels, bracelet and silk hanky flowers
needle felted pillow: wool roving and silk hankies
felted balls - wool roving on styrofoam shapes

Here are just a few of the items that can be made with silk and wool.  The first image shows a bracelet made from wool roving beads, hardened with a little mop and glow.  Along with these, Joanie has strung some hand dyed silk cocoons and commercially made beads.

Image two shows a ring: the band was made from silk roving and the top of the ring is a piece of a hand dyed silk rod, soaked in mop and glow and left to dry. ( they were left outside ontop of leaves in a tree, so they would pick up the shape of the leaf)

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