Silk Painting France Translations

Above: Teena's handpainted silk devoré velvet with Dupont and AlterEgo dyes

Silk painting France translations will help you when visiting websites in French, or French silk painting supply stores or when attending a silk painting class which might have French labels on items - or involves French words.  Let me help you understand the basic translation of terms.  Get started by listening to this message from me - Teena, simply click the triangle/arrow:

Above: These are some of  the things I use to paint on silk.

How to paint on silk - translations from French to English, English to French:

	English	French
	painting on silk, silk painting painting on silk and wool	peinture sur soie peinture sur soie et laine
	the colours / colors some colours / colors	les couleurs des couleurs
	paintbrush  paintbrush for stencils fan paintbrush foam brush sponge (for painting)	pinceaux pinceaux stencils pinceaux eventail pinceaux mousse eponge
	fabric, textile, material	tissus
	silk	soie
	scarf, scarves square scarf	foulard, foulards, echarpe foulard carré
	tie	cravatte
	cushion cover	enveloppe de coussin
	steam seting, steaming steamer steam fix in steamer (to set dye) horizontal steamer iron-set, fix colour with an iron	le fixage etuve fixable en étuve etuve horizontale thermofixable
	gutta water-based gutta, in a tube solvent-based gutta gutta bottle (squeeze bottle) nib for gutta bottle	serti serti eau, serti eau tube serti Essence F pipette plume pour pipette
	textile pen, texta pen	feutre
	stop-flow, anti-spread	antifusant
		Essence F
	dilutant	diluant
	hand cleaner, soap	savon pour les mains
	Chinese ink	encre de chine
	frame wooden frame frame with sharp needles attached	cadre cadre en bois cadre picots
	thumbtacks	pushpins
	hand-rolled hem on silk hand-rolled hem by the metre	le bourdonnage le bourdonnage metre lineaire
	silk books by Lydie Otellart - "Peinture sur Soie un Art, des Techniques", "Guide de la Peinture/soie"	livres de peindre sur soie

Above: Silk is stretched tightly on a woode frame and held securely in place with thumbtacks which are easy to remove.

Painting on silk using the wax Batik method

If you'd like to learn to paint on silk, I teach classes in Paris and Sydney, and would love to show you this wonderul ancient art of textile painting and design.

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