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Featured Artist : Janine Maves |

 
Artist Bio / Statement

Hi Dharma Folks,

I've been a silk painter for 20 years and a Dharma customer for over 15 years, and have decided I'd like to come out of the closet and be included in your featured artist section. I have a degree in studio arts with an emphasis in graphics, and have worked in print publication and design since finishing school. Twenty years ago, I took a one-day silk painting workshop and was immediately addicted to watching the color flow over the silk. I've been a silk painter and a Dharma customer ever since. Even though I've been lurking for all these years, I think about everything in my studio (except my Susan Moyer's frame) comes from Dharma. I started out using Deka paint products when my kids were small and I worked at the kitchen table, but over the years, I have experimented with Dharma Procion dyes, Setacolor, Jacquard Textile, Lumiere, and Pebeo paints. I love the way rayon and the new sandwashed silk take Dharma Pigment Dyes, which I now use exclusively. I've found I can mix in a little Lumiere Metallic when I'm feeling sparkly. I use Dharma GAMT bottles and tips for serti lines. I'm still using a huge jar of Deka resist for clear and use Jacquard gutta for black. I use Mil-Soft and Synthrapol, an Arty's stretcher for square shapes and an old Moyer's wooden frame for oblong shapes. I think of my work as a meditation. I've given away Dharma catalogs and have shared your website all over North Carolina.

For the past year, I've been using Speedball fabric inks to silkscreen old vaudeville publicity shots of my grandmother onto my scarves. Please visit my website at http://home.earthlink.net/~jmaves/index.htm to see examples of these and all my other work.

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Dharma Products Used
Silk Fabrics
Silk Fabrics

Over 50 styles of Silk Fabric! All of our silk is Grade A - 1st Class - Number 1 - the best quality around at heavily discounted prices with same day shipping.

Dharma Fiber Reactive Procion Dyes
Dharma Fiber Reactive Procion Dyes

This is the #1 best dye we recommend for tie-dye, batik, dye-painting or screening, etc. on cotton, rayon, bamboo, Tencel®, linen and other natural fibers. Also for solid color dyeing and many other techniques!

Dharma Pigment Dye
Dharma Pigment Dye

A highly concentrated, non-toxic pigment system that when applied to fabrics, feels more like dye than paint.

Lumiere and Neopaque Fabric Paint
Lumiere and Neopaque Fabric Paint

Lumiere & Neopaque is just about the best fabric paint available! Concentrated high quality pigments and perfect coverage even on dark fabric.

Gutta Applicator Bottles With Metal Tips
Gutta Applicator Bottles With Metal Tips

These are 1/2 ounce squeeze bottles with a special metal tip for applying fine lines of gutta, resist, paint, whatever! 3 sizes.

Jacquard American Gutta - Black, Gold, Silver
Jacquard American Gutta - Black, Gold, Silver

Made locally and without the added cost of shipping from France so we can sell it at a very attractive price. Do NOT dryclean!

Milsoft
Milsoft
Liquid textile softener which restores the soft feel to fabrics that dyeing sometimes removes.
Synthrapol Detergent
Synthrapol Detergent

Synthrapol is used as both a pre-wash and as an after-wash. A "must have" for dyers! New - low foam version is also available.

Speedball Fabric Screen Printing Ink
Speedball Fabric Screen Printing Ink

Do you want a smooth, creamy non-toxic Screen Printing Ink that hardly leaves any feel on the fabric? If yes, then this Speedball Ink is for you!

Screen Printing
Screen Printing

Screen printing, also called serigraphy or silk screening, is the preferred way to print a logo, text, or artwork repeatedly on fabric.


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