Painting on silk december 10th

My first ever go at painting on silk at a class at Weston village Hall. What a lovely afternoon spent learning something new and different. Below is a picture of the painted silk, loosely based design on one of rennie mackintoshes roses.

Above is the fabric , the design was first drawn on a sheet of paper, then the silk pre stretched on a canvas was laid on top of the paper and the design traced on with gutta, a type of glue. This was dried with a hairdryer, it allows the fabric to be painted on, yet the die does not reach the part of the design blocked out by the glue.
Next the watercolour dye is applied to the fabric, salt can be added to give a nice effect, or water dropped onto it so that colours overlap or run into each other. When the design is finished , the salt is brushed away, and the silk is dried with an iron.
Then the fabric is removed from the frame, it is rinsed in water and ironed again to make it colour fast, i think i got it in the right order.
Today i so wanted to do something with a small part of it, i decided to make myself a small jewellery box.

Here is the jewellery box that i made with a little bit of the fabric, i appliqued and embroidered some small stitches to the rose on the lid. I did use a glue gun as it was too thin to sew without fraying, i lined it with pink felt.The remainder of the fabric is in the background ready to make a new project, but i havent decided what yet.
I would certainly like another go just to do something more earthy to machine a landscape design onto it, so i await the next lesson. Warning you could get addicted to this.So many people did so many different designs in so many various colours no two the same, I enjoyed it immensely.