Cleanline Resist

8/11/2010

This is my favorite of all the resists. Add a little alcohol to keep it from getting moldy, especially once it's been diluted. Add enough water or dye so it penetrates the fabric but doesn't spread. Can be colored with dyes, but too much dye makes it runny, so use concentrated dyes. Can be applied with a brush, squeeze bottle, sponges, stamps, whatever. Holds a fine line and nice detail. Pretty sticky, and thus messy. Some batches are runnier than others. Great product.

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11 of 11 users found this review helpful.

8/19/2009

I was pretty much a novice in using resists, unless you count childhood experiences with crayons on t-shirts, plus I don't have particularly good hand-eye coordination (which is to say I can't draw). I used a rubber stamp, since that is a medium I'm used to. I figured the fine detail would be lost, but I'd at least get the paisley outline. The garment in question was a knit shirt I had previously vat dyed a light sea green--nice color, but after one season I'd gotten bored with it. I did the resist-stamping over a period of several days so each area could dry. That part went smoothly enough, then ironically for someone who has been dyeing fabric since childhood, the problem emerged when I started the over-dyeing process (in bright blue). I was not accustomed to the cold batch method, and I found that using thickened dye on dry fabric was awkward at first. I was using a spray bottle, but I found myself doing a lot of finger-painting. I originally had the shirt laying flat, but I switched to having it hanging from a hanger on the clothes line, and this worked better for me. The shirt turned out beautifully--any errors, as authors say, are my own. The Inko washed out easily with the excess dye, and more detail than I expected remained from the stamp. The rubber stamp itself required a good cleaning between stages with a toothbrush but suffered no noticeable damage.

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9 of 9 users found this review helpful.

5/11/2010

Very pasty texture, hard to get out of the bottle and onto the fabric; it's too thick and sticky. Better for big areas than small. Also very prone to sticking to the top of fabric rather than going through; we had a lot of issues with watery ink and paint wicking under the resist.

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8 of 8 users found this review helpful.

2/18/2011

Love it! But you have to paint while it is still on the soft side otherwise if it's brittle it will crack and cause leak through.

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5 of 5 users found this review helpful.

5/25/2009

Great product. Can get a batik effect without the fuss of wax. Quart bottles would be more preferable to pints. Please bring back the quarts.

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4 of 4 users found this review helpful.

5/26/2013

Received rapidly, safely packed all the way to New Zealand. Thanks!

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10/20/2012

good

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