Painted Synthetic Silk Banner

Painted Synthetic Silk Banner

One thing I love to do is surface design and silk painting.  I took classes in collage and really loved marblizing fabrics.  I some how thought I would get to do more surface design in my carreer.  I guess it didnt happen because of my working as a draper at the opera.  In a really big well organized shop like SF Opera, all the surface design, painting and dying is handled by a specialist.  If I had spent more of my carrer working in smaller shops, I probably would have been able to use those skills more.

This one is painted on synthetic silk.  Color come out truer and brighter on real silk, but I needed a very small palette of colors for this project so I opted for the sturdier, easy care synthetic silk.   It was made for SCA West Kingdom Page School so who knows how much care it will recieve.  :)

It had been over a decade so I jumped at the chance to do this project.  Im hoping to do some more in the near future.  Anyone need a banner?

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2011