Jacquard Textile Colors are a medium consistency fabric paint that delivers great value for your money. These colors leave your fabric as soft as possible for a paint of this medium consistency. The color is intense and semi-opaque. This product is absolutely colorfast on natural or synthetic fabrics when heat-set by ironing according to the manufacturer's directions. Mixing Colors: Right out of the bottle Jacquard Textile Colors provide you with 37 gorgeous colors - plenty for many projects. But if you need more you can easily mix the colors to make any color you desire. The Fluorescent colors glow brilliantly under a blacklight for those special effects! Creating Pastels: You can mix #123 White into any other color to create pastels. Try mixing in a little at first and then adding more if you want to increase the effect. Increasing Transparency: You can increase the transparency of any color by adding #100 Colorless Extender to it. The more you add the more transparent the color will be. Increasing Transparency & Flowability: You can increase both transparency and flowability by adding up to 25% water. This will give you more of a watercolor effect. They also mix beautifully with Dye-Na-Flow and Lumiere & Neopaque. Jacquard Textile Colors are a great medium for Pearl Ex Powders - make your own metallics! Application: Jacquard Textile Colors can be applied with brushes, stamp pads, squirt bottles, and airbrushes. For airbrushing thin with water up to 25%. Fixing: After drying, Jacquard Textile Colors must be set with heat or a fixative. There are several ways to do it: Ironing: This is the best method. Use a dry iron and iron on the reverse side (for thinner fabrics) on the appropriate setting for the fabric. For thicker fabrics like fleece, iron on the painted side, using parchment paper or a thin press cloth over it. Fixative: Mix in 1-3% (1/2 - 1 1/2 tsp per 8 oz Paint) of Jacquard No Heat Fixative in with the paint you are going to use right before you use it. Then let the project dry and cure for 4-6 days, and it will be washable. This method actually results in the paint being even softer than ironing. Dryer: Have the dryer on as hot a temperature as the fabric will take for about 35 to 45 minutes. This often doesn't work as well as the methods above if your dryer doesn't get hot enough. Dryers do vary. Cleanup: Promptly clean all tools with warm water. A word on freezing: As of February 2017 the textile paints no longer have the same issue with freezing thanks to a change up in stabilizing agent. If your paint happens to freeze take the container and set it out someplace it has a chance to completely thaw. It is very important that the whole container has had adequate time to thaw. Mix the defrosted paint vigorously and apply as usual. A word on "fluorescents" :While these colors are incredibly brilliant they will only weakly fluoresce. The Violet and Blue are particularly subdued under black light.
