| 1. Stretch silk scarf on stretcher system or stretcher bars to fit scarf.
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| 2. Evenly spray entire surface of stretched scarf with water so that the fabric is wet but not dripping.
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| 3. With first dye color, using a 1" foam brush, begin to paint your design free-hand onto the wet silk surface. Note: do not dilute your dye colors, pastels will not work with salt, when too much water is added to dye the salt effect is only slight, if at all.
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| 4. Working quickly so wet silk doesn't dry, apply colors #2 and #3, slightly overlapping or just touching each other on the silk.
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| 5. Using silk salt or rock salt, sprinkle onto silk colors just applied. Put the salt between the colors to encourage them to blend together. (Overall, Judi used about a quarter of a 2 oz. jar of silk salt.)
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| 6. Continue to apply dye and salt while making sure the unpainted silk is still wet. You may have to re-spray the remaining silk with water again if it has dried (only spray the unpainted, unsalted surface).
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| 7. Complete painting and allow to slowly dry. Keep in a cool location to allow slow drying and thereby insuring more dramatic salt effects. Do not move frame until scarf is completely dry.
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| 8. With a cardboard scraper, gently loosen and scoop dried salt from painted surface of scarf.
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| 9. Remove scarf from frame and steam set (see silk steamset directions in catalog or on our website).
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| 10. Wear and enjoy!
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