Alginate's main ingredient is kelp, a form of seaweed, so it’s completely safe to use on delicate skin. This manufacturer uses traditional techniques for making the mediums and varnish, with the best quality raw materials sourced from around the world. BabyRice alginate is “dental grade”, meaning it is also used by dentists to make moulds inside people's mouths for gums and teeth impressions. The sheer choice of superb fibres will tempt the hand spinner to produce metres and metres of hand spun yarns for their projects.

The silk fabrics include the smooth, finely woven Pongee and Habotai which are ideal for silk painting and Shibori, the Gauze Chiffon which can be used when felting wool to make Nuno felted fabric, the Crepe de Chine which is woven from high twist silk yarns to create a flexible fabric with a soft drape, and the tactile Noil Poplin and Noil Gauze fabrics woven from the remaining fibres from silk cocoon carding. These offer a wide choice of the best materials and equipment, chosen for their quality, ability to do the job and good value. When making impression moulds of body parts with hair/fur, please use a barrier like petroleum jelly to stop hair from getting stuck in the set alginate mould. We acknowledge both aesthetic and performance requirements for compounds, and include a UV stabiliser package for indoor and outdoor use.The range is based around a well-engineered timber frame and the classic weaving set-up of either Counterbalance or Countermarch tie-up. Unison Colour – Unison Colour Soft Pastels are widely recognised as exceptional for their colour gamut, balanced tenderness and feel on the paper. In 1963, Rowney was the first manufacturer in Europe to introduce a brand of artist quality paint using an acrylic based binder to support a high quality colour, and using the brand name Cryla.

That said, the nature of the product causes the moulding to shrink over time and so needs to be cast within about 20 minutes. As a result the Glimakra floor looms supports the weaver in the journey from weaving floorings, furnishing through apparel to transparencies. Knitters, crocheters and hand spinners will enjoy a choice of magazines including Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet and Spin Off while the fascinating Piecework magazine includes articles and projects which celebrate the history and diversity of needlework and textile crafts. This now covers 35,000 sq foot employing 25 skilled craftsmen making them one of the world’s leading makers of hand weaving looms and spinning wheels. This was followed by developing a range of different products such as pads which are still part of the range, canvas panels, stretched canvases, mountboards and artist’s luggage.H Dupont – Steam-Set Dyes are chosen by artists for the rich colours which they bring to painting on silk fabric whilst the ‘hand’ and the texture and finish of the silk remain unchanged by the colour which has been applied. By 1837, under the founder’s son they had concentrated their activities on producing artists’ colours using their skills in selecting the best pigments and binders to the leading artists of the time. You need to fill your impression mould with your intended casting material soonafter making the mould. A felting needle can be used to sculpt 3 dimensional shapes such as animals and flowers, and to add detail to faces. There are acrylic and oil paints for artists and model makers, watercolours, fabric and silk paints, glass paints and alcohol inks.