A scarf with a civet and a genet: painted by hand

Eliška tying the scarf in her hair, in riso style

This scarf never went through a printing machine. It is painted entirely by hand, with a brush, in the same inks I otherwise print on fabric with.

It is slower than screen printing, but every brushstroke shows and there will never be another one like it.

1. The hem

First I hem the fabric on an old sewing machine.

2. A colour from RISOAQUA

RISOAQUA are textile inks from the makers of the risograph. Usually I push them through a MiScreen stencil, but they can be brushed on too, and above all they can be mixed.

I mixed the warm beige of both animals from white, yellow and a drop of black.

The yellow and the black are only just meeting. I stir until the last streaks are gone.

3. The base

The civet and the genet are sketched on the fabric in pencil. I fill them in beige with a wide brush and finish the edges with a thin one.

The first beige strokes along the pencil.

The scarf half painted: a beige civet and genet and the first black stripes on a tail — The beige is done, the black is just starting.

4. The black drawing

The outlines of the ears and the snout with the thinnest brush.

Spot by spot.

5. Done

A civet and a genet chasing each other round and round.

The finished square scarf with a civet and a genet on a wooden floor

I wear it as a headband too.