Metals
Various metals are used in today's embroideries - cut into shapes, strips or embossed. All our metals can be cut with scissors.Metallic Foils
These are thin layers of metallic plastic fused to a sheet of cellophane. You apply a liquid glue, eg Foil Glue, or fusible web, eg Vliesofix or a bonding powder, eg Supermend, to your fabric, then iron the metallic foil to the adhesive. Comes in 13 colours, instructions included with intropack.
More information on foils can be found in helpful hints.
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Intropack (4 pot luck sheets 15cm x 15cm): $5.00 ($4.55)
Individual sheets 30cm x 30cm: $4.50 ($4.09)Flaked Gilding Leaf
These metallic flakes are packaged by volume in large 440 cc jars. Eight colour themes. The flakes can be used in any number of ways, from traditional gilding techniques, use as inclusions in papers etc. to layering and application with adhesives.
colour themes440 cc jar: $9.50 ($8.64)Supa Foil
A lovely soft metallic foil suitable for stitching and embossing onto. Acid free.
Comes in six pack types. Four different foils, each 15cm x 21.5cm, per pack
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Pack price: $5.20 ($4.73)Reinforced Aluminium Foil
Reinforced with cotton thread for sculpture and creative embroidery.
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50cm x 50cm piece: $3.30 ($3.00)Metal Shim
Brass, 15cm x 15cm pieces, thickness is 0.05mm (0.002")
Copper, 15cm x 15cm pieces, thickness is 0.08mmBrass shim / piece: $2.20 ($2.00)
Copper shim / piece: $3.90 ($3.55)
Copper Tissue
Paper thin pure copper. Easy to stitch onto, pleat, crumple etc.
30cm x 30cm piece: $5.90 ($5.36)Copper Filings
Pure copper. Wonderful to use with UTEE (clear ultra thick embossing enamel)
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30gm jar: $6.00 ($5.45)
Pure Copper Flakes
Wonderful to use with UTEE (clear ultra thick embossing enamel)
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13gm jar: $6.00 ($5.45)
Adhesive Copper Foil
6mm wide, with peel off backing tape.1 metre coil: $4.00 ($3.63)Metal Cloth
A super fine woven metal - imagine the finest chiffon, and you will have a good idea of how it feels. The cloth stays in place when you pleat, crumble or otherwise distort it. It can easily be manipulated, coloured, and stitched by hand and machine. Available incopperstainless steel only at present.
picturesPiece, 20cm x 20cm: $6.00 ($5.45)Woven Wire Tube
A very fine wire woven in such a way that the tube can be shaped and distorted. It will hold its shape and is stable enought to create necklaces or to use in so many exciting ways. Thread things through it. If you don't like the effect, you can pull the tube lenth and it will return to its original shape. Flat width is 6mm.
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picturesPer metre: $4.40 ($4.00)Metallic Flakes
Three colour combinations in good size 3.5 g packs. Much more economical than our previous packs.
colour themesPack: $19.50 ($17.73)Imitation Gold Transfer Leaf
Now only available in two shades; Copper and Aluminium. Single sheet, 13.5cm x 14cm. Designed to be placed onto an adhesive surface, eg specialist medium, pva or vliesofix, and then peeled off the transfer sheet. The imitation metal peels off where it contacts the adhesive image.
Single Sheet: $3.00 ($2.73)Variegated Leaf
Works in the same way as imitation gold transfer leaf by adhering to specialist medium, pva or vliesofix. Four colours, 'Indian Summer' 'Autumnal Tones' 'Atlantic Ocean' and variegated black.
coloursSingle sheet 14cm x 14cm: $5.00 ($4.55)Oxidising Patina
This patination fluid works on all metal surfaces including metallic paints, treasure gold, metallic shiva stiks. Wonderful verdigris effects.
picture100 ml bottle: $6.50 ($6.91)Acrylic Gold Size
A water based gold size, ready to gild on in 15 minutes.
For the application of gold and other metal leaf. Full instructions on the bottle.
picture100ml: $11.50 ($10.45)Coloured Metal Pack
An assortment of coloured aluminium foils and enamelled wires.
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