Instructor: Els van Baarle

Supply List

• 6 or more yards of fabric, different kinds like: thin cotton, silk, thin linen, all natural fabrics, some light colored fabrics are OK; everything washed and ironed.
• tools for applying wax, old things from your kitchen
• tjanting if you have it (there will be tjantings in the classroom)
• brushes, inexpensive nayural hair for applying the wax
• brushes, different sizes for applying the paints and dyes, also sponge brushes
• plastic or glass containers containers for your dyes
• plastic gloves
• mask
• hairdryer
• pen, pencil
• masking tape
• embroidery hoop to practice detailed tjanting work
• if you travel by car, 6-weeks old newspapers for ironing out the wax
• a soft cloth (piece of old blanket) to make a small printing area on your table
• plastic to protect the table
• scissors
• plastis bags to take wet fabric home

Added 9/20/08

• permanent marker
• Pieces of tyvek and safety pins for marking your fabric
• a variety of papers, A 4 or smaller
• Some rags, old towel or roll of paper towels
• small empty silkscreen, if you have one
• a thermofaxscreen with an image, if you have one
• basic sewing supplies – needle, scissors, pins, threads
• a good working electric frying pan for the large stamps.  We will share, so three in the classroom will be enough.

Teacher will bring:

• tjaps
• tjantings
• two or three small waxpots

Teacher will buy:

• wax
• Procion MX dyes
• chemicals and some painting inks

Materials fee will be $35 or less

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