One 96x48" white, cotton, Ikea RITVA curtain panel (linen-weave, cotton fiber), with 8" black linen border, painted with eight trios of Caerleon lions; two 12x48" gold linen table runners with linen borders, Ansteorran star and Caerleon company motto (ut simus invicti: "together we are undefeated").
The lions and star were first stamped, then painted in and detailed by hand. The motto was written by hand with a large, flat paintbrush, over a chalk grid drawn in the center of each table runner. (And no, I don't know what hand/font the text is. I'm not a calligrapher or a scribe, hehe. This is the hand I know how to do. ☺ )
Paints are all artist's acrylics mixed 1:1 with fabric glue, and kept fluid by painting with a wet brush. (I like working with regular acrylics much better than pre-fab fabric paints. The glue keeps the paint elastic and prevents cracking with wear, the glue and the water both make the paint soft and liquid enough to soak into the fabric on the first coat, rather than just sitting on top of the fabric where it might chip and peel with age).
All pieces were finished with a silicone water-repellant spray treatment to protect the paint and to give the fabric some stain resistance.
(Pic taken on my cutting table in the sewing room, with all of my feast gear, since I'm not at all certain of being able to take pics of the feast table at Candlemas this weekend - feast is usually lit by candlelight only, so, any pics of feast will likely be a big dark blur with a bunch of flames floating in it, hehe. (Well, fake flames, this year - the event site doesn't allowe open flames, which: booo! But we'll make due).
Tada!
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