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Naomi



Joined: 26 Mar 2005
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 05 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Have seen a load of buttons knotted individually onto fishing line and each strand of these tacked to a wooden batten and hung at a window.
Bit like a beaded curtain only more stylish and the glass ones and see through ones look lovely with the light showing through them. Would look great in a teenagers room. Could make a lampshade to match too?

snootycat



Joined: 17 May 2005
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 05 7:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I have seen a bag made of ordinary material then covered with buttons. It was in a shop and cost a fortune. you just need all different sizes to cover it completely

Nanny



Joined: 17 Feb 2005
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Location: carms in wales
PostPosted: Sun Jul 31, 05 7:12 pm    Post subject: buttons Reply with quote
    

have you ever considered the virtues of becoming a pearly queen denise?

cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 05 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You can get the chemicals I was referring to (Ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide) here:

https://www.silverprint.co.uk/

I'll see if I can get the the technique to work and tell you all about it. The info I have says that you need 60g of the former chemical and 30g of the latter, each dissolved in 250ml of distilled water, and you mix them in a dark-ish room.

Soak the fabric in this, squeeze it out and dry it in the dark. Seal it in a light proof box.

For exposure, put it out on a solid surface, put soemthing on top of it that'll have a nice pattern, and carry it into the sunlight for at least ten minutes. It'll turn grey-ish where the sun hits it, that's when it's getting to be done.

Keep washing it till the water runs clear.

To enhance the colour, wash it in 1/2 tsp hydrogen peroxide in a couple of litres of water.

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