In addition, there is Cottolin (a 60% cotton and 40% linen blend), a fine wool yarn, and a metallic polyester yarn for highlights and experimentation. The board cuts easily and cleanly with a craft knife and is ideal for mounting presentation roughs and visuals as well as displaying graphics, screen printing, craft projects and building scale models. In 1963, Rowney was the first manufacturer in Europe to introduce a brand of artist quality paint using an acrylic based binder to support a high quality colour, and using the brand name Cryla.

There are hog brushes for oil and Cotman brushes for watercolour, the brushes use natural and synthetic hair designed to give the artist a wide choice and maximum control. Rigid and lightweight, our foamboard is perfect for a wide range of applications, from arts and crafts to mounting displays, the smooth surface and crisp lines are guaranteed to give your project an extra edge.

Each of these valuable wool fibres has different properties – the Shetland is a fine wool with a medium staple and will spin to a soft open woollen yarn, while Devon Longwool top is a strong fibre, has good lustre and a long staple for spinning a rug yarn. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] The hand cards are manufactured to the specifications developed by the Howard Brothers Company from 1866.

It minimises adhesive absorption, enabling you to mount your prints with increased mounting and laminating speeds when used with a roll laminator, making your workflow smoother and more efficient. Creating a collage with foamboard is easy and fun with Westfoam, using a simple craft glue or Westfix you can stick on photos, fabric and a range of materials to put on show and liven up any room. Fibrecrafts – The Fibrecrafts brand was set up in 1982 to source crafts supplies from around the world for the fabrics and decorative market. Jacquard has continued to expand the product lines with ranges including Dye-Na-Flow, Lumiere and Neopaque fabric paints. They are very strong and can endure the heat, soap and manipulation used in creating your felted hats.Create stunning one of a kind items of jewellery, charming miniatures for your doll’s house or create sculptures for the home or garden. The range of clays now includes Sculpey III, and oven baked clay which is a perfect medium for modelling, staying soft until baked to a matte finish, retaining the artists tooling and detailing. Finally to complete the range they now manufacture ordinary soft stick pastels used for creating broad sweeps of colour. Continue reading… Canvas fabrics include ready primed cotton canvas in a choice of weights and grains, unprimed cotton duck canvas, and primed or unprimed linen canvas fabric.

The application of gold leaf has been used for centuries to embellish decorative objects such as picture frames, furniture and mirrors as well as architectural features such as decorative plaster on ceilings. After curing in the oven, Super Sculpey can be sanded, drilled carved and painted with water-based acrylic paints. Knitters, crocheters and hand spinners will enjoy a choice of magazines including Interweave Knits, Interweave Crochet and Spin Off while the fascinating Piecework magazine includes articles and projects which celebrate the history and diversity of needlework and textile crafts.Our range of fibres include British Wools, Merino wool, cotton, flax and other delicious fibres including alpaca, silk and cashmere. Due to its refined surface structure and the large format production (up to 2m width) Smart-X is also perfectly suited for direct digital printing. Used extensively in the exhibition and display industry it is the ideal product for short and medium term use.

The Acid Dyes which work best on protein fibres such as silk and wool, and some synthetics such as nylon, also include the liquid H Dupont Classique Steam Fix dyes which are used by silk painters and batik artists. After the boards have been laminated, they are dried, cooled and trimmed to size with an automated cutter. There are also the Acid Discharge dyes, which can be removed from fabric with discharge paste, and the Acid Illuminating dyes which can be combined with the discharge paste to replace the colour removed. These characteristics make Smart-X the worlds only lightweight foam board for external applications without any significant change in colour for a period of up to 2 years. MULTI USE: From Prototypes and Mockups, Presentations and Photography to Hobbies, Crafting and Mounting, Westfoam has a multitude of professional applications as well as being a core accessory for any craft stash.Smart-X is a distinctive and unique lightweight foam board featuring an all-plastic sheet material with surfaces of UV and weather resistant solid polystyrene (HIPS) and a core of expanded polystyrene that is completely moisture-resistant. The resulting Hat Shapers are excellent for creating, shaping, blocking, drying and storing your felted hats. This was followed by developing a range of different products such as pads which are still part of the range, canvas panels, stretched canvases, mountboards and artist’s luggage.