The pillow that I made :)

[Bugbear]

Alright, Miss Meghan, it's time for serious business here. Let's take your textile adventures and mix them with your love of wax and end up with batik tartan. Dye a piece of fabric some light color, then take melted wax and draw a "tartan" on it. When the wax cools, dye the fabric a second color. Dip the fabric in boiling water to melt the wax, the draw more lines, dye a third color, and so on.
Why wouldn't it work?


By the way, there's nothing wrong with coloring your candles with crayons. Don't let anyone tell you any different.

That reminds me a little of when we use wax resist in ceramics to build up complicated designs or layers of color.

On the candles: * As paulhenry has pointed out I have the terms (Mishima) and (Sgraffito) backward.

There are techniques we use in ceramics * correction should be (Sgraffito) * where a piece is coated with a colored slip or wet clay then designs are carved into the piece removing the colored clay with the carving. A candle might be dipped in a differently colored wax and the designs carved through the outer coat to reveal the design in the different color of the wax beneath.

The inverse technique * correction, should be (Mishima* is to carve, coat with differently colored slip then when it is dry enough, trim off the outer layer leaving the colored coating in the carved areas , but I don't know if there would be a way to do that in wax.

* Sorry I got the names backward. and thanks for pointing it out, paulhenry.