Year 5 and I have been working on some 'talking textiles' - we've been using silk painting and batik to tell the ancient Egyptian myth of the Sun God Ra.
Batik is a very traditional technique for making patterns on fabric. We used melted wax to draw pictures on some white fabric, then when the wax hardened we dyed the fabric using cold water dyes (the top picture shows fabric being dyed in a bucket). The wax stops the dye from dying the fabric, so when you remove the wax (by ironing it between sheets of newpaper) you are left with your original picture in white against the colour you have dyed the fabric.
(It's not as complicated as I have made it sound!)
We have also done silk painting - Mrs Verrall and I think the results are really stunning.
The rest of the school will be able to see our work at the sharing day on Friday, but here is a preview of what we've been up to.
Louise (visual artist)
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