I used a plain cotton fabric and painted the black polka dots on by hand. I mixed a textile medium into the black paint so that the scarf could be machine-washable.
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| Marc Jacobs |
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| Copycat |
The polka dots are not lined up perfectly straight - they're actually quite crooked. I was doing it all by sight, so there were a few mistakes which just threw everything else off.
The above two pictures show some of the mistakes I've made in painting the polka dots. Some of the dots are wonky and not perfect circles, and other times I've accidentally smudged the paint.
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| The back of the scarf - paper stuck on to the dots |
The first few rows I painted, I had the scarf laid out on a desk on top of a piece of paper and was painting them like that. But the paper actually stuck to the back of the scarf and I wasn't able to get it all off.
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| The back of the scarf |
So after that I hung the scarf up on a clothes rack, and painted them like that. One side of the scarf has full circles, and the other side has incomplete circles where the paint hasn't made it all the way through the weave.
This is how I painted the polka dots (clockwise from left):
1. First I dabbed paint onto a circular object (I used a pot of lip gloss)
2. I pressed the lid against the fabric, holding a plastic lid behind the scarf for more support
3. I filled in the blanks with more black paint
4. Then I wiped the plastic lid clean, and repeated that whole process again
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| Marc Jacobs by Copycat |
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