Our Foam Board has a lightweight polystyrene core backed onto a card and paper liner and can be used for a variety of artwork uses from presentation to model making. It can be cut easily with a craft knife to give the sharpest of detail to any construction, from a product prototype to a scale model of an entire city. Daler Rowney – The Rowney brothers first opened their business premises in 1783 and started out selling perfumes and powders. The Matchless spinning wheel is the most responsive wheel available today and comes with single treadle or double treadle action along with a wide range of options and accessories.

The fibres include cotton, lokta (daphne), and flax and each fibre will bring a different property to your paper as will any chemical or assistants added during the papermaking process. The Sidekick is Schacht’s newest spinning wheel with a unique design which folds easily for portability. Specially formulated EVA based emulsion adhesives permanently bond the polystyrene foam core to the paper liners. expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] The Daler Board Company was established in 1946 and was built around a new type of surface for oil painting that worked well with thick oil colour, and now known as “Daler Board”. It has numerous uses in art, picture framing, photo mounting, graphics display, merchandising and more.Venne Colcoton – The Venne business was started in 1982 by Rene van der Venne to supply spinning and weaving supplies direct to craftsmen, along with teaching spinning and weaving, working from a barn of his farm. After the boards have been laminated, they are dried, cooled and trimmed to size with an automated cutter. The Fibre Reactive Dyes, along with an assistant, are used as dyes for cotton and other plant fibres as well as on silk. Coloured pencils contain pigment mixed with a binder and watercolour pencils have coloured or graphite leads which are soluble in water.

The Yarn Management tools include umbrella swifts, ball winders and a choice of other useful winding and skeining tools. The business was created by the Katz family and, like so many craft supplies businesses was first based in their garage. There are squeezy pipette bottles which can be used with a fine nib for applying thick paints, gutta outliners and glues and spray applicators for inks, dyes and paints. The white and cream fibres can be dyed to any colour using Acid Dyes for protein fibres such as wool, silk or mohair, or Procion MX fibre reactive dyes for cellulose plant fibres such as cotton, flax and bamboo. Nine years later, in the hands of its founder, it took the nom-de-plume of a famous illustrator, Caran d’Ache.The Ashford range of wheels allows spinners to create a wide range of yarns, from fine to bulky and across a span of novelty yarns using all types of fibre. As a result the products are always produced utilizing the newest standards in chemical technology to achieve quality and consistency.

The Selectasine Screen Printing system can also be used on paper and primed wood, board and canvas, or diluted to make a waterbased paint. The floor looms are well able to take the stresses of high tension warps for rug weaving or the delicate warps of lace weaving.expand title=”Continue reading…” trigclass=”my_special_class”] The Speedball screen printing inks are pre-mixed with a binder and include the four process colours, magenta, cyan, yellow and black as well as many valuable tints and shades as well as the more difficult colours to mix from these, such as shocking pink and purple. Choosing a Canvas Fabric The choice of material depends both on the fibre it is made from, cotton or linen, the weight of the yarn used and on how finely the fabric is woven. Foamwerks cutting tools are recommended for cutting custom shapes for use in object framing and modelling.