These white or black blank silk ties are all beautifully made in China and sewn with 100% silk thread. We have them made extra long and with a synthetic insert which is an advantage for painting. Three different fabrics to choose from. Better to dry clean rather than wash silk ties. If washed, block until totally dry. Using water based colored resists and free flowing Silk Paints like Dye-Na-Flow or Setasilk, you can just paint them, dry them and iron to heat set both the resist lines and the paint. No washing excess dye out needed, and they come out looking better than new. Great non-toxic project for kids to make for their Dads too! Sorry, no returns on ties.
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3/19/2008
These were the first neck-ties I tried for my silk painting business. They are perfect! The fabric and weight is wonderful, and even with submerging them in dye baths they dried beauifully and take my landscapes to a new level! Wynn Creasy
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15 of 15 users found this review helpful.
4/10/2010
These ties are fabulous! I actually have been able to steam set them, then rinse and iron and they have held up for me. It does take a bit of practice, and you need to be really mindful of applying the dye very lightly - but I've had success applying two layers of dye and a layer of soy wax. Oh, and I also didn't stretch my neck ties, I just laid them down on a clean, flat surface. After painting the front of the tie, I painted the border with a layer of soy wax - that way when I painted the back, it didn't bleed to the front. Good luck and enjoy this great product - and have patience :)
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10 of 10 users found this review helpful.
2/15/2009
I've had killer results with serti, sunprinting, salt, and brush-over shibori on both the Habotai and Charmeuse. Biggest challenge is sewing these wiggle-prone bias-cut B-words back together as smoothly as the manufacturers did. Ironing the detached silk layer onto freezer wrap stretched my first one too much. Wrapping the inner felt in plastic and pinning the silk back onto it to flatten it for painting worked better. Temporary basting along the seam and fold lines with non-stretching thread helped. But after reading Wynn's review I might try just not taking my next one apart at all :)
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6 of 6 users found this review helpful.
8/29/2010
i was pretty happy with this tie. i had read reviews about how difficult it is to dye, wash, and keep straight. i can't say that it came out perfect quality to sell, but as a gift i thought it looked great. it took the dye beautifully, washed and dried fine, and just came out slightly wavy in the end, but im sure no one will notice except me.
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5 of 5 users found this review helpful.
1/7/2011
These print fantastically! The ties are definitely high quality and I foresee future orders!
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3 of 3 users found this review helpful.
12/31/2011
The fabric is great, but the tie fronts twisted and wrinkled when it got wet. The creases couldn't be ironed out. Since they were Christmas gifts I had to give them with unironable wrinkles on the fronts.
If they were sewn together with more care, they would be fabulous. It seemed like they weren't cut on the bias or sewn twisted. The problems appeared on painting them, not even when completely wet.
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1 of 1 users found this review helpful.
11/26/2011
I threw mine in the wash with some other silks I was washing before reading the part about not doing that. It did get some little wrinkles that I couldn't iron out. Next time I'll know better! I painted this with the Jacquard green label and fixed it chemically and it's beautiful!
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1 of 1 users found this review helpful.
9/9/2011
Very thick, shiny silk and well made tie. I would suggest using only dyes that are ironfixed on the ties since the silk shrinks when it gets wet, and the inner lining doesn't.
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2 of 2 users found this review helpful.
7/11/2011
We tie dyed this tie and it is gorgeous. My husband loves the feel of it, though he has not worn it as a tie yet, he is still stoking & petting it. I highly recommend this to anyone
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7/8/2011
DO NOT PUT IN THE DRYER! dyes up great but I but it in the dryer like I do everything else and it almost fell apart.
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2 of 3 users found this review helpful.
6/23/2011
The kids and I had great fun painting these for Fathers Day, and their dad loves his new ties! but after the effort of taking them apart and sewing them back together, and not being able to achieve a nice flat surface over the facing, I think I'll go the expensive route next time and make a proper folded tie from a pattern.
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6/17/2011
Great product! Silk Neck Ties can be the greatest challenge to paint as they are many layers of silk, so easy to turn into a blob. Practice makes perfect though!
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6/9/2011
Screen printed onto the black silk tie! Awesome! Looks amazing! Not to mention how beautifully these ties are sewn together. Quite up-scale!
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