Decola Silk Batik paint sets, 6 or 9 colours

Flowing colour for silk and fine fabrics

Decola Silk Batik is a water-based acrylic paint for cold batik and freehand painting on silk, cotton and fine synthetic fabrics. The fluid paint travels into the fibres and spreads with a soft brush. Choose the set with outliners for defined colour areas, or the wider palette for freehand work.

Choose your set

• 6 × 50 ml + 2 × 18 ml: six paint jars in medium yellow 220, orange 315, red 331, medium green 722, dark blue 517 and black 810, plus two 18 ml outliner tubes. This is not eight 50 ml paint jars.
• 9 × 50 ml: nine paint jars. Alongside those six colours, this set includes khaki 723, cerulean blue 512 and purple 607. Outliner tubes are not included with this option.

Both sets come in a cardboard box. Brushes, fabric and a stretching frame are separate materials.

Prepare and paint

Wash the fabric without softener, dry it and iron it flat. Stretch silk on a frame and stir the paint before use. Test the complete process, including heat setting, on a scrap, especially with synthetics. For cold batik, continuous resist lines separate the colours. A washable silk resist needs to dry completely first, around 1 to 1.5 hours. This is the resist drying time, not the drying time for the painted fabric. For soft blends, paint freely on damp fabric.

Heat setting and care

Leave the painting to dry for 24 hours. Then iron for 5 minutes on the cotton setting, without steam, with a cotton cloth between the iron and the painting. Use fabric that can withstand this treatment. Wait at least 48 hours after ironing before hand washing at 30 to 40 °C with mild detergent; also respect the fabric care label. Rinse brushes immediately with water and close the jars firmly.

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