Silk painting is both a popular art form as well as a popular applied craft. Decorate silk scarves or paint a composition on silk. Silk is relatively absorbent and silk paint will sink into the fabric, not imparing its flexibility or movement. Colours appear vibrant. Guttas are little pen like tools that contain a thicker consistency liquid which prevents silk paint from bleeding - Gutta forms a barrier on the silk so that you can control where your paint spreads to. Silk is most easily painted on to when stretched on a frame - this keeps the silk flat and provides a springiness akin to a canvas stretched on a frame - silk painting in this way feels vibrant and light and not fiddly!
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