Silk Banner 1.0, Part 2

The banner is finished!  Okay, well, more of a flag...and there's actually a proper, period term for this kind of flag, but I can't remember it for the life of me. But HERE IT IS:

That's:

• one yard of 45" white silk charmeuse
• Dye-na-flow paints
• black Pebeo gutta (resist)                              ...all from Dharma Trading Co. 
• a tapestry hanger that I think is actually Balinese; I've had it forever
• a scrap length of gold trim that I just pinned in place on the hanger

The finished flag is 20"x25";  you can see in the picture above that I set it up in the corner of the fabric.  The extra space around it got painted, too:  I'm not ready to show it off yet, but I painted part of the extra silk red, and other parts black, and made both a small pennant to fly from the top of my tent, and a long, thin, silk belt to wear with my leather ones.  :)  More on those later. 

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Silk Banner 1.0, Part 1

Sunday night:

• Cartoon plotted out and sketched
• Silk sketched

Monday night: 

• stretching frame built, from lumber given to me by a friend (it was meant to become a raised bed for my vegetable garden, but it's Yellawood - which means chemically treated, so no good for my organic gardening efforts)
• Silk stretched onto frame (with thumbtacks and a hammer, and remind me next time to go and buy the three-pronged flat tacks that you're supposed to use with these.  I like those much better). 
• Outlines of device drawn in black, water-based gutta

Eee!  I can't wait to start painting it!  The color scheme is simple: black, white, red, and green.  I know the black and red, and probably the green, are going to take at least two coats each, if not three.  I have to remember to start with the white field on the left first, as I was taught (because accidental bleedover is easy to cover up when white gets onto what will eventually be a red field, for example).  

For now, though, while the gutta is drying, I'm off to make some small adjustments to the brown Italian dress so that I can wear it this weekend, and throw a bunch of my other dresses into a gentle wash with a whole bunch of hair conditioner to soften up the linen.  It works great. :) 

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In Which Our Heroine Masking-Tapes Fabric To Her Worktable...

Not that I remembered to take a picture, but tonight I finally sat down and started work on my "first" silk banner.  I've done them before, but they were all company projects for Caerleon, and done in a group of people working together.

This one is for me, and I'm the only one working on it, and it's the first of that kind.  Tonight I drew the cartoon, and sketched out the silk fabric.  All that's left is to build the frame I need.  I have the wood for it already, and it won't take much to get it put together, but as it's nearly midnight at the moment, that'll have to wait for another day.  Stay tuned!

Will a pic of my supplies work?