My interest is to have Color Changing Streamer custom made with colorful flowers as the designs. The ordinary way is good, but I want to show a different design to magicians.
http://www.abbottmagic.com/Color-Changing-Streamer-P1236.htm I can have it dyed/airbrushed myself. Can anyone make it with 100% white silk?

I can make it but it is hard to make the silk opaque enough to hide the inner silk.

Richard

Unfortunately this is one of those "silk" tricks that is seldom made from real silk!

Point well taken Bob. And it does not have to be made with silk. But hiding colors inside of anything white is a challenge.

Richard

Consider having the streamer change from green leaves (foliage with different shades of green leaves "busy" enough to distract the eye) to the same green leaf background covered with colorful painted flowers. A little more work if you are doing the dying and airbrushing yourself, but this might solve the problem for you.

I certainly agree. As a dove worker, when using white silks I depend on distance from the silk, but that won't work here. They touch.

White is a special problem.

Will airbrushing a silk go well?

Mike you can certainly air brush silk. If you can find one of those good air brush kids, you can get very good work.

If you are still considering this for the Color Changing Streamer, you can find how to videos on YouTube creating dyed silks using permanent markers and then having them bleed using alcohol to create a tie dyed look just like the streamers on the market.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ6qAUc3BkQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJi-F5jj47g

I never knew the colors could be colored in that manner. Thank you.

Happy New Year everyone.

Need the blank silk scarves?

Take a look at these:
http://www.dharmatrading.com/scarves/sil......ils.html

A little reminder, The late great Ade Duval learned to dye his own silks for his giant silk production act. In the summer, the down time because of the heat, he would dye new silk for his act.

Thank you very much for the info.

There is a classic anecdote about Ade Duval that might be of interest...

It was in the later days of vaudeville, wnen vaude had become a 'grind'. Ade was in some London theatre, and had just finished the third show of the day. The dressing room was in the basement, with a window opening on stage door alley. Several exit doors from the house opened on the alley.

Ade, True,and assistant were in the dressing room reloading the silks for the next show. Through the window, they heard a couple walking up the alley. One of them said to the other: "What act did you like?--I liked that dog act." The other person responded: "Not me! I liked that bloke with them rags!"

Ah! Show Business!!!

Great story!

Richard, could you make a white to black scarf?

To be honest, I doubt that it would work very well. It is very hard to hide the black inside the white scarf. Realize that the interior scarf would probably show through.

Richard

Thanks, Richard.
If it was done the other way round, black to white (the white would only be in display for a couple of seconds), would that be better?

If you are prepared to try, I am prepared to pay in advance, with no comeback if I am less than pleased. I'm just not that sort of person.

You are welcome to PM me.

Many thanks,
Dave

When I finished the 1st phase to my show Richard, I will contact you too about giving it a try.

I am sure if you go to a good fabric store you will find black lining material that could be used for the Color Changing streamer. There is lining material that is opaque that handles just like fine silk. We use to have a very high quality store in our city, they only sold the most expensive sewing machines from Germany and the finest imported materials. I am sure in a city like Detroit, you should not have any problem getting a CC Scarf made. I bet you have a store and a high quality fabric store in Detroit. Any of these places should also be able to sew one together for you. Flowered material should be easily available in a fine material.

Due to the improvements in digital printing it is now possible to print on Habotai silk. I found a supplier in Germany and had some silks and streamers printed on demand. The result is awesome. I got exactly the designs and sizes I wanted. Of course I had to supply the data for the designs.

Tim Sonefelt has been printing on silk for years. It is only the thicker silk though.

The original posts concerning the hiding of the interior designs with a white silk is still valid.

Richard