NEBULA!! Thickening the dye to use as a print paste. We add it to a thickener that we made ourselves.
This was the lumpy stuff, so the dye went thorough it like this. I threw this stuff out when I realized how lumpy it was and mixed the next bit with a hand mixer.

See? smooth now. This way it will paint on easier. The dye went thorough the smooth stuff so differently!

Looks like a blood sample or some kind of bacteria.

With flash on!!

no Flash.

The rice flour and rice bran mix paste once its stenciled on. The fabric is also glued to the board behind it with a rice paste.

Ironed this down to get the effect but found out later that were not supposed to use the board to paint on, so if I was suspending this from a frame to paint it it wouldnt work at all.

Again, opps!

After I found out we were suposed to use the boards even for the folded oddly ones. This is the way to do it.
Yes, I did some large samples.

Drying before going to the steamer, the lower one is the pink one from the last pic.

The gold bits on the quilting cotton dont take the dye at all so they stay standing out the whole time. Its because theyre acrylic paint and the dye is for natural materials.

Bernice's stencil.

Julie's stencil.

The steamer of DOOM!

Julie painting.

Bernice painting.

Julie and Bernice's samples drying before steaming.

My samples steamed and washed, almost dry. The black came out of the pink a LOT, it had silver glitter on it so even though it was washed the coating was there and the dye didnt get through so much.

Theres some kind of under stencil pattern on my red. It must have been from the board I used.
Im going to try some things to see if I can replicate that on purpose.

pppppppt!