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Who are Stewart Gill?

Stewart Gill paints were originally created in 1998 by husband & wife team Grant Stuart, a couture fashion & costume designer, & Rebecca Gill, a textile artist, in order to have the very best colouration products for their professional textile commissions.After creating the paints for themselves, demand flowed in from other interested textile artists, and paint production increased until there was no time left to produce garments! These days, they still make the paints to exactly the same recipes, lovingly hand-produced in Scotland in small batches. We know how much passion & commitment goes into creating fabulous art & textiles, and Stewart Gill cares enough about your creative endeavours to bring you the ultimate paints for performance, longevity, and versatility.

Why are Stewart Gill Paints so different?

SG paints are now well known and loved by professionals and beginners alike because:

• a superbly soft surface handle means your fabrics stay soft, pliable & stitchable.
• All SG paints are water based and child-safe, and heat-fix simply with a hot dry iron.
• After fixing you can machine or hand-wash your painted fabrics, and dryclean & tumbledry too.
• The colours are vibrant and pure, acid-free and archival as we use only the finest Italian pigments.
• Our lustre pigments, metallics & glitter paints never tarnish and can withstand direct ironing, machine washing and regular wear & tear!
• All the paint shades are intermixable between the different ranges
• You can layer the colours directly onto your fabric, and heatfix all in one go - there's no need to fix each paint type separately! All SG's have a medium-thick viscosity so you can use them for any work that needs sharp edge-definition with no bleeding ie; stamping, stencilling, direct paint techniques, and screen printing etc.
• And yet by diluting with water you can create fluid colour washes too - it's really up to you as these products put you in total control.
• Perhaps most exciting is the many surfaces you can use your SG paints on - ALL FABRICS including both natural & synthetic blends, paper, card, shrink plastic, polymer clay, Tyvec R, foams & fusibles such as Vilene R, leather, buchram, bone, shell, plaster, paperclay
• Use your SG paints on anything that's porous or any surface that gets heat applied to it.

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Types of Paint Available

• Metamica is a super shiny resilient metallic lustre opaque textile paint that stays shiny even through the washing and heating processes. Metamica comes in 20 shades, 10 of classic traditional metal shades and 10 heirloom vintage shades.

• Pearlise is a gently gleaming pealescent semi-opaque paint in seashell tones. Once adhered to fabric, it is both hand and machine washable. Pearlise comes in 10 seashell shades.

Stewart Gill:
Mini-Mezze Kits
6 small jars
(goes a long way)

Mini-Mezze Kit

MetaMica
Metallica
6 jars of textile paints
in heritage metallic colors

Stewart Gill: Modular System Stencils
6" Square Repeat Design

Cedar Canyon Textiles
(Shiva Paintstiks)

Stewart Gill Paints & Accessories (4 Pages)

Stewart Gill: Adhesives & Mediums

Stewart Gill

Byzantia Beadhesive
Textile Adhesive for
glitter, jewels, beads & baubles

Stencils

Stencils

Modular System
6" Square Repeat Design Stencils

Unique & very original Stencils that can be used with quilting, thread painting, glitter, foils, inks, paints, batik & more

Mixed Media

Books, Patterns, DVDs & More Index
instruction on using acrylic gel, mediums, pastes, inks, dyes, paints, foil, stamping, stenciling, mixing with hand/machine embroidery & beading, stamping, doodling & more.

Fabric Inks & Alcohol Inks

Foil, Craft Metal & Glues (Use with Alcohol Inks)

Fabric Paints, Paintstiks & Pigments

MicroCut Glitter & Glue

1. Jones Tones Poly Prismatic Holo Crystals Glitter & Confetti Glitter Shapes
2. Jones Tones MicroCut / Ultra Fine Glitter
Highlighter, Metallic, Hologram, Prismatic, Glitter Glue
3. Jones Tones Glues for Foil, Glitter, Fabric & More

Fabric & Illustration Pens

Micas added to Pigment & Paints for that extra glitz

Tools & Accessories for Paint, Stencil & Craft Projects

ALL Stamps, Stamp Pads, Cleaner, Books, DVDs

DVD, CD, Videos for Embellishment & Surface Design

Fabric Dyes

Art Quilts & Mixed Media Books & Magazines