Painting is generally done on paper, but with fabric painting you will be able to try your hand at painting on a variety of different materials. The best part is that you can use fabric painting to make your additions on everything starting from clothes, curtains and cushion covers. You will be able to make cool designs on a dull piece of cloth, and transform it into a highly fashionable cloth in a jiffy.

 

Of the several cloth materials that we see around us, cotton is best suited for fabric painting. It is the most popular form of cloth material on which such paintings are done. You will also be able to make your paintings on silk clothes if you want. The best thing you can do is, to test whether a material is suited for fabric painting or not is trying the fabric paint on a small piece of that material and see what result you have. If the result seems to be positive you can do your painting on that material.

 

While choosing the cloth material for fabric painting, you should take care to see that whether the material that you are using has a tight weave or not. It is seen that in loosely woven clothes the colors tend to seep through the fabric; losing in the intensity that you wanted to have in your painting. You will also be able to have a good design on your clothes if they are tightly weaved.

 

Many cloth manufacturers tend to add a bit of sizing to their clothes, which results in the fabric paints not getting adhered to the cloth. In such cases, you will need to wash the clothes before doing fabric painting on them. To test whether a cloth is suited for fabric painting or not you can drop a bit of water on it first. If the water gets soaked then it can be termed reliable  for fabric painting.

 

Once you have washed the cloth on which you will be doing your own fabric painting, you do not have to apply a fabric softener on it. You should also take care to see that the cloth on which you are doing your painting does not have any wrinkles on them. Wrinkles will prevent you from getting the desired result on your fabric painting.

 

After you are done with your fabric painting on a cloth, you should iron it to help the colors to get set on the cloth. It is suggested that you iron the cloth placing another cloth over the fabric to prevent the fabric from getting stuck to the iron. Before you iron the cloth, after you have made a fabric painting on it, you should allow it to dry well. Ironing the clothes after the fabric paint has set in will help you in getting a more positive result.

 

Another crucial thing that you need to remember in case you are doing fabric painting on a cloth is that you add papers under the surface of the cloth over which you will be working. By doing this you can be assured that the fabric colors would not seep and get on to the back surface of the cloth.

 

These tips would enable you to play it safe, while doing fabric painting over a piece of cloth and help you to come with a great piece of art.