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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.

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Layering the Paints

The key to layering the paint is in knowing the opacity of each of the varieties as products which are more opaque have a more dominant appearance on your surface.

The general rule is to apply your paints according to their opaque levels, either from opaque to translucent or translucent to opaque. Take your paints and line them up in order starting with the translucent colors, then glazes, semi-opaque and finally opaque. When you work, start from one end and work towards the other. Chose to begin with opaque colors or the translucent colors but don't start in the middle.

Stewart Gill paints are designed to intermix within the ranges but can also be layered directly on the surface with one exception, Galactica. Galactica will dull if mixed with other paints so for the most brilliant finish, apply Galactica as the final layer.

The following table sorts out the layers and the suggested products for those layers.

Layer	Suggested Products	Appearance	Method
Background Layers	Colourise	Translucent Matte	Color washes, solid blocks of color or patterns
Middle Layers	Pearlise Alchemy	Semi-Opaque, moderate shine Shiny, Interference Color	Medium concentration glazes painted over the background layers to create depth while allowing the background to stay visible.
Top Layers	Metamica Byzantia Galactica	High shine, opaque High shine, opaque Highly reflective	Use as sharply-defined highlights to pull background and middle-layer colors forward.
Optional Final Layer	Alchemy Colourise	Shiny, Interference Translucent Matte	Thin washes and glazes. Use sparingly to push bright highlights or bold areas to the background.

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To Go DIRECTLY to the PAINT choice click on links below

Stewart Gill (4 Pages)
Page 1 of 4 Mini-Mezze 6 Jar Kits	Page 2 of 4 Stencils	Page 3 of 4 Medium Additives
Metamica shiny non-tarnish metallic opaque textile paint	Large Checkerboard Geometric Collection	Anti-Travel Viscosity Booster & Bleed Control
Pearlise pearlescent semi-opaque textile paint	Small Circles Geometric Collection	Page 4 of 4 Adhesives
Byzantia Paint & Guilding Chips jewel tone metallic opaque textile paint & super shiny chunks of metallic lustre	Giraffe Original Skins Animal Collection	Byzantia Beadhesive Fabric Adhesive for jewels, beads & baubles
Byzantia Guilding Chips super shiny chunks of metallic lustre
for projects and helpful hints using Stewart Gill products.

More Paints, Paintstiks, Pens, Inks, Foils, Glitter & Accessories

Stewart Gill: Mini-Mezze Kits 6 small jars (goes a long way)	Stewart Gill Anti-Travel Viscosity Booster & Bleed Control	Mini-Mezze Kit MetaMica 6 jars of textile paints in heritage metallic colors	Mini-Mezze Kit Pearlise 6 jars of textile paints in seashell colors	Mini-Mezze Kit Byzantia Paint & Guilding Chips 3 jars textile paint & 3 jars guilding chips in jewel tone colors
	Mini-Mezze Kit Byzantia Guilding Chips 6 jars of guilding chips in jewel tone colors

Stewart Gill:
Modular System Stencils
6" Square Repeat Design

Stewart Gill
Lg Checkerboard Stencil

Lg Checkerboard
Modular System Stencil

Stewart Gill
Sm Circles Stencil

Sm Circles
Modular System Stencil

Stewart Gill
Giraffe Stencil

Giraffe
Modular System Stencil

Stewart Gill: Books, Adhesives, Mediums & Tools

Stewart Gill

Anti-Travel
Viscosity Booster
& Bleed Control

Stewart Gill

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

Stencils	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.
Doodling Stencils & Templates 5 sizes (45 stencils to choose from) Unique & very original Stencils that can be used with quilting, thread painting, glitter, foils, inks, paints, batik & more
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
Fabric Inks	Foils & Glue
All-Purpose Inks by Tsukineko	Bella Nonna Foils & Glue
Fabric Paints, Paintstiks & Pigments	Jones Tones Foils and Adhesives Jones Tones Glues for Foil, Glitter, Fabric & More Write 'n' Rub Foiling Pen for foiling & glitter by Tonertex
Batik-EZ Resist Medium Crafter's Pick
Jacquard Exciter & Airbrush Packs 9 sets (9 colors each)	MicroCut Glitter & Glue
Pebeo Setacolor Transparent (sun painting/printing) Pebeo Setacolor Opaque excellent for light and dark fabrics	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
Simply Spray and Stencil Spray fabric paint in aerosol can for air brush & silk screen look	Fabric & Illustration Pens
Shiva Paintstiks Sets, individual colors, rubbing plates, instructional books, DVD, patterns, stencil brushes & grip mat	Jacquard Tee Juice Markers Broad & Fine Tip


Micas added to Pigment & Paints for that extra glitz	Copic Pens Dual Tip Markers refill pens and replacement nibs
Jacquard Pearl Ex 40 Individual Jars and 12 & 32 Jar Sets	Fabrico Dual Tip Marker Pens Tsukineko 2 tip styles: brush and chisel
LuminArte Polished Pigments Primary Elements Coloring System Kits Pure pigments with mica for shimmer	FabricMate Dual Color Marker Pens, Yasutomo Fabric Mate 2 colors PER pen for shading
	Fabric Mate Chisel Tip Marker Pen, Yasutomo Broad stroke fill-in & Calligraphy

LuminArte H2Os Shimmering Watercolors 167 Individual Jars and 6, 12, & 24 jar Kits Shimmery watercolor cakes that are incredibly	White Pen-Touch Metallic Ink Marker, Sakura Extra-fine, Fine & Medium Tips

LuminArte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mist Watercolors 24 Individual Bottles. Extra twinkle watercolor in a liquid form.	Permawrite II, Yasutomo BLACK Fine TIP: Five sizes for fine precision lines
Pebeo Setacolor Shimmering add shimmer to reflect light	Tools & Accessories for Paint, Stencil & Craft Projects
Iridescent Shiva Paintstiks Sets, individual colors, rubbing plates, instructional books, DVD, patterns, stencil brushes & grip mat	Cindy Walter's Stabilized Fabric for Painting, a Jaquard Product
Stamps, Stamp Pads & Cleaners	PFD Prepared for Dyeing Fabric and Studio Art Cloth
Art Girlz Doll, Word & Inchies Stamps	Doodling Stencil & Templates 5 sizes (45+ stencils to choose from)
VersaCraft Ink Stamp Pads 25 colors for fabric, paper and more! 1"x1" Square or 3"x4" Rectangular	Daubers, Squeegee and Ink Dropper for Ink, Dye & Paint Application
StazOn All Purpose Cleaner	Syringes for Paints, Pens, Dyes, Inks, Resists
Acrylic Clear Blocks use with unmounted rubber stamps	Mini Scoopers & Mini Spoons
DVD, CD, Videos for Embellishment & Surface Design	Misty Fuse: Black, White, & UV
Embellish & Surface Design DVD, CD, Videos: Beading, Thread Painting, Surface Design, Collage, Mixed Media, Foiling, Stamping, & More while working with paints, pens, dyes, inks, foils, glitters, shaving cream, and more	Small Funnel, Lg. Eye Dropper, Small Organizer Jars
Fabric Dyes	Stencil Brushes & Brush Soap
Jacquard iDye & iDye Poly	Niji Waterbrushes 5 sizes to chose from
Art Quilts & Mixed Media Books & Magazines	8 oz, 16 oz. Yorker Spout Bottles & Plastic Squeeze 1/2 oz. Bottles w/ Ultra Fine Stainless Steel Tips 0.5, 0.7, 0.9 mm.
Beads, Paint, Glitter, Pens, Foil, Stamping, Threads & More	Plastic Spray Mister & Fine Tipped Empty Bottles with white contents label