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Free shipping applies all week on all Rainbows End Textiles, Australia Only come and grab yourself some exclusive fabrics to make those really cool Christmas gifts!

Link to store on right hand side of page under "pages list" or go to our facebook store for more choices;
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Store now Open

Rainbows End Store is now open, stocked with craft packs, chakra prints and other...more items can be found in our facebook store here...https://www.facebook.com/rainbowsendstudios/app_251458316228

Giveaway!!!!

GIVEAWAY!!!!!
Announcing a long promised giveaway! Winner will receive a beautiful new Chakra craft pack....8 approximate Fat Eighth's ( 27 cm x 50 cm) of the new designs,equals 1 metre and is $30.00 in value. Quality homespun cotton printed with the new designs, it can be used in a variety of ways...bunting, patchwork,softies,kids clothes...The possibilities are endless and with Christmas in sight you could be giving someone a very special gift that you have made from our exclusive designer fabric!
Just like this post and leave a comment about what you would like to make...Share it with friends and spread the love!  Winner will be announced on Thursday 16th October just before our new stocking in the store Good Luck!

Introducing the Chakra Prints

Being a lover of rainbows I am naturally drawn to the symbols of the chakras, as they are basically a rainbow, a rainbow that is related to the seven energy centres of the body. Radiating from the base of the spine to the top of the head, the colours echo the colours of the rainbow, beginning with red and ending with violet.
There is an abundance of information on the web of how to align and balance your chakras I am not here to tell you how to do that, only to say with my love of the rainbow and a a recent urge to work within small round motifs I have been inspired to create this series. I have not attempted to explain all my use of symbolism here or provided information on all of the imagery, it will be better for the beholder to explore the journey for themselves. All these fabrics, plus and 8 pack of 27 cm x 50 cm, crafting pieces will be available in my stores by the end of this week.
1. Red or Magenta also known as Muladhara, The Root Chakra 

The foundation, representing the element of earth, it is related to our physical grounding and is the seat of the Kundalini, it gives you strength and determination, is grounding and encourages survival within the physical realms. There is a touch of green as the complementary colour, it inclusion is to stop the total domination of the base colour and provide a balance, as is the inclusion of the crown chakra colour (one end of the spectrum with the other)
2. Orange,  Savadhistthana, Sacral Chakra

Related to the element of water, this chakra is located in the lower back, abdomen and sexual organs.
It connects us to others through, feelings, desire and movement.
It gives us sensations of grace, fluidity. fulfillment, movement and gives us the flexibility to accept changes in our lives. I have included blue as the complimentary of orange to give balance.
3. Yellow, Manipura, or Solar Plexus

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The Chakra that rules our personal power, located near the stomach, it also rules our metabolism

gives energy and creative inspiration I have used its complimentary colour, violet as its balance.

4. Green, Anahata, Heart Chakra.

Related to love, can also be represented by the colour pink, as included in my design, also pink is a shade of the colour red and the complimentary of green. It symbolises trust, personal ego, compassion and harmony. 

5. Blue, Vishudha, Throat Chakra

Symbolising communication, which is why I have included the imagery of music, all forms of communication, via the throat. The speaking of truth. The complimentary of blue is orange.

6. Indigo, Anja, Third Eye Chakra

Located in the centre of the forehead, allows the recognition of spiritual wisdom and seeing truth, its complimentary is a shade of orange as provided by the star images.

7. Violet, Sahasrara, Crown Chakra

Represents, knowledge and enlightenment, is located at the top of the head. Relates to awareness and consciousness, deals with perfection and unity of the soul, also includes the addition of of white which symbolises clear vision and purity. The complimentary of violet is yellow.

The Spectrum

This is a familiar colour choice for me, the whole rainbow. I used all my images and all the chakra symbols in its execution and finally calmed the riot with peaceful white doves! White is the combination of all the spectrum as one knows a rainbow is white light separated into seven components.

So comes the end of my journey, it is now your turn to own a piece that you are particularly drawn to, that maybe the chakra you need to develop for yourself. Or maybe you will need the crafting pack of eight with the 100% homespun cotton pieces being perfect for lets say, bunting, softies, features on clothing, or even framed as art pieces? Were ever your creativity takes you. Stay tuned for the stocking of the shop on October 16th.

Today's Happy Hour Special!

Today's Happy Hour Special This fabric is truly a one of a kind Artisan Textile available today only at a never to be repeated price.Discounted down to $20.00
Available only today 20/03/14 till 9.pm WST

1st Happy Hour Special in Blog Shop now Open!!

Drop into our shop for today's 1st Happy Hour Special!! Link in right hand menu.

New Store Now in Blogger!!

Our New store has also opened right here in our blog, for those of you who do not visit Facebook!
At the moment it has only two products but as more are on the table this will change, The new shop format only allows for 10 products total, so these will be alternated with what is available on facebook, to give our shoppers a chance to buy 20 different textiles.
Specials will available daily in our Happy Hour Category, from 6pm till 9.pm WST every week day.
Customs and larger and smaller lengths of textiles can be ordered, these are always priced at R.R.P.

Rainbows End For Unique Artisan Textiles

Grand Opening of West Coast Store!!!

Happy St Patrick's Day to all our followers! Rainbows End Begins trading again at 6.00pm tonight from our new Facebook Store pop by for a look and a purchase from our brand new range!

Look for the Shop icon at the top right of the page.

Rainbows End February FB Giveaway

I announced a giveaway on our Facebook page last week, and tonight I draw it! It was hard so many of you are such loyal fans and customers I researched some of those random generator thingys that can choose a name for you but honestly they were beyond me So not to be defeated I printed all the names from my followers list, then cut them up and put them in a jar( took me over an hour :) ). Then I got my 16 year old to draw the name and....................................wait ..............for it..........................Melynda Made!.....You are our lucky winner Taaa daaa!.....I will be in contact :) and as for the rest of my loyal followers do not be disheartened I will be opening my shop soon and I will be having another giveaway coinciding with that opening. So congratulations Melynda 1 metre of Rainbows End Studios print...Garden of Heavenly Delights coming your way>>>:)

Creating on the West Coast!

Wow!
Cannot believe it has been 11 months since I have written in here! Rainbows End has had a big year!
We have relocated from rainy Queensland to sunny Perth! A big move but one that brings us home to family and friends. Finally this week I have started to print again! Been a long time coming and it makes me so happy, nothing is more soul soothing than playing with the spectrum of colours and creating new designs. I have many new designs to play with as the bulk of my studio equipment is still in storage in Hervey Bay waiting for a lotto win or other good fortunes to relocate it to here.
I am hoping by the end of this printing run in a week or so to reopen the Rainbows End store, also there are some exciting plans being penned for the new studio, I hope before this year is finished to bring a new way of tutoring to the Rainbows End followers and pass on some of my 35 years of experience and training in the textile arts. A new giveaway will be announced this week too so stay tuned.

The garage at our new premises being cleaned and prepared to be a new studio, This space was full of junk and spiders

New Print table, this was a bargan, found the old workbench on gumtree for $30 the top is form ply from Bunnings, the felt was a roll of something? from the op shop for $10 and was enough for two tables. I now have two screen and sun printing tables which will double my production and happiness.

1/2 Price Sale still happening all weekend in store!

Our Summer Fabric Clearance is still going for the whole weekend! This gorgeous Rainbow Spirograph Homespun cotton is only $12.00 a metre!! an absolute steal!! 2 are availiable!
www.rainbowsendstudios.com  or Like us on Facebook and receive a further 5% discount in our social store!

50% off Summer fabric!!!!

Rainbows End has been working on new designs and is soon to stock winter fabrics in our store!! Including lovely Bamboo fleece and knits!! We have also been busy drawing up some "Boy" designs targeted at the little guy in your life. So in order to make way for all this Rainbows End goodness we  discounting all homespun cotton prints by a huge 50% Do not forget all Rainbows End fabrics are original hand created designs so you are getting the absolute bargain of the year "Be Quick" so not to miss out!!

Airbrushing to make a full colour Screen Print

I am lucky I have a four colour carousel for screen printing, if I feel inclined to do dozens of full colour prints! However as I often work in small quantities I also love to use my airbrush to achieve this. I also love the soft blending you get that is hard to achieve with a screen.

I am going to show you how to colour you black line prints this way;

This is my drawing Siani's World! and I have her exposed on a screen Printing with black ink will give me exactly this image.

This is my result a Siani's World Featured Edition She is printed on a piece of Sun Printed homepun cotton
In order to get the Sun Printed background with out it interfering with the image I cut a piece of blockout in the shape of the printed image

Then then sprayed on my sun colour and laid a lace stencil over it to develop in the sun

This is the result

As you can see some of the sun colour has spread under the stencil but this is not a problem as it can actually add some interest and depth to your finished design.

Using my original stencil I printed off four copies onto acetate transparencies You can use paer if you wish to do only a small amount of spraying, however it is a little more difficult to line up your colour seperations.

I decided which areas I needed to cut out based on which colours I would be using in the design In this case it was very simple
1. I cut the areas on the first one that I needed for skinn tone ie; legs, arms and face.
2. The areas for shoes and clothing.
3. The background heart shape

I then sprayed the back of my stencils with spray adhesive


Pinning my fabric to my drawing board I lined my stencil up with the black background stencil on the sun print. The colours I have used are sun and screen print paints with a mixture of print reducer and water mixed to the consistency of milk.

Spraying on the skin tone

Skin tone; the first spray
Lining the design up carefully I then sprayed the blue for the shoes and dress

Then I lined up the cut out heart stencil

Then sprayed the heart back ground 

This is all three spraying finished

It is now time to print the final black line screen print.

This is the finished print there are some small misses with the registration I often find this adds to the design However if you don't like it then you can add fine touch ups with your airbrush

So there it is! Just iron your print as usual to set it. You can keep your stencils to use again and again and of course they may also be used on a black screen to use on your carousel for large volume printing.

Next I am going to add full colour to a screen printed length That should be fun!

Special for Easter

One day only in the online store A special one off Sun printed Easter egg fabric This is the only one of these I have done It is on special for today 8/3/12 only and has a flat rate shipping charge of only $2.00 (Australian Residents only!) While you are there check out our other new additions to the store

Such as this gorgeous rainbow Spirograph. Weather has been so dull in Queensland lately we need a few rainbows!

Featured Editions

Feature Editions is a new hand printed product in the Rainbows End Online Store.  It is a two registration screen process of some of the Rainbows End Signature prints. The second registration adds colour and pzazz to the line drawing bringing it to sparkling life. These features are perfect as a focal point for patchwork or clothing. Some of the prints include a metric fat quarter of the back ground sun or block print. These little prints are competitively priced, starting at just $3.50 for a single small patch up to only $10.00 for a set including the MFQ .postage is only $2.00 flat rate within Australia.
Below is a series I have produced called Siani's world A little bit of whimsy perfect for bags, cushions, pencil cases or giols clothing. Hand printed love!!!!

Exclusive Vat Dyes Now Available In Australia!!

For some time in this country I have been trying to get hold of some vat dyes, mainly Indigosol and Indanthren. I had briefly seen them in operation at art school by the students in the year ahead of us. They were fazed out by the time it became our turn. After years of trying to track them down only to find original suppliers had gone out of business or sold up to someone else who never restocked I gave up and bought from overseas! I purchased Indigosol from India and Indanthren from Denmark and I was not disappointed!!!! They are divine!!!.

For dyers who are familiar with Indigo dyeing you will love this process It is Indigo in a spectrum of colours!, and is very possible to achieve the same beautiful oxidation marks.
The process is fabulous for batik as they are are cold process are boil proof and will not run even in a mixed dyebath, in other words you can over dye yellow or red in a bath of blue with no contamination of the colours it is also possible to add white fabric to the dyebath as well and get a true blue! A perfect medium for workshops.

Read our New Tutorial page on Vat Dyes here

And purchase our fabulous dyes here!

Spiro Delights

I have been playing around with spirograph designs You know the gorgeous spirals you used to make with those gear thingys when you were a kid?
Well I found a couple of sets of them and have been having lots of fun!!!
The result is some new fabrics have made their way into my store!!
You can find them here;

http://www.rainbowsendstudios.com/


Oh and the wonderful very colourfast Vat dyes Rainbows End has imported from Denmark will be added to our store next week as well. A How to use them page will be added right here in my blog!!!:)

Give away!!

Sorry this is a little late as I spent the weekend cleaning up storm damage from the previous weekend! So better late than never!

As I previously wrote ;this month Rainbows End will be providing a custom service the have your child's art work printed to either a fabric length or a custom dyed T Shirt.


 Just like this one, the design has been provided by my gorgeous 4 year old grand daughter Lila!

These are not digitally printed they are done the old fashioned way using colourfast pigment inks. Also all the dyes used by Rainbows End are either the sun print colourfast pigments or colour washfast boil proof vat dyes So you can be sure your item will not run in the wash and will be long lasting.

Not only am I offering a Tee custom created in your child size, completely FREE, but also the chance of buying a length of homespun cotton fabric at a discount of of 10% off the regular price.

Homespun custom lengths will retail at $18 per 50cms or $28 per metre. T Shirts will retail at $25.

I am still working out how to include the custom slot into my shop site So in the meantime if you wish to be in the draw

Simply like our facebook page and share this give away on facebook! All existing likers will be entered in my draw if they SHARE this giveaway on their wall.

For my readers who do not have a facebook account simply leave a comment here and link your blog to this post :)

The draw is, on the 11th of February!!! Good luck

February 1st will see a new giveaway!

February 1st marks the beginning of our new trading year, Christmas and school holidays out of the way Rainbows End will be back in full swing!!

This is the latest project I have been developing

KINDER DESIGNER!!

This is were you get your child to make a drawing for me to develop into a screen I will then screen it to a fabric length or a T-shirt in your child's size. This will be a new custom service by Rainbow's End and will give you the chance to see your child's artwork developed into an original, personal, fabric design!

Our giveaway announced on February 1st will have something to do with this new venture!!

Stay tuned!

Mega Sale!!!!!

It is exactly one month till Christmas Eve so our Rainbows End Store is having a mega sale Huge discounts off our fabrics and other hand crafted items!!! In time for you to purchase for Christmas and in time for us to clear the way for some fantastic new fabrics coming to the store in December Dont forget if you like our facebook page  You can get an even further discount by buying selected items in our Facebook Social Store!!!

Give someone some Hand-crafted Love this Christmas!!!!!