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Old 01-19-2011, 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Hen3rietta
How large are your representations gong to be? If the individual pieces are larger than a a square inch, I would go with batiks that have subtle variation rather than solids to give the piece additional movement. I do real stained glass as well as quilt and using all clear (solid) colors made the piece uninteresting and dull whereas the use of patterned or multilayerer art glass gave the the same pattern the movement I was looking for.

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They'll be about 22x22ish...not the "set in stone" dimension, but it won't be any smaller than that. So probably most of the individual pieces will be larger than a square inch. I plan on using the tone on tone fabrics like Moda Marbles or Hoffman Watercolor Bali. Not completely solid and have a subtle color variation. The images have solid colors to begin with and I think they look great so I think the tonal fabrics will add on to that. I don't want fabrics that have dramatic color variations. I haven't done the numbers on Nabooru yet, but each of the sage images have at least 15 colors (including black for leading) and I think if I had fabrics with not-so-subtle color varitions it would muddy up the design.
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