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Will acrylic paint come of fabric?

I have these white fishnet stockings that i want to paint gold for a Halloween costume. If i use acrylic paint on them will it flake off?

Update:

I MENT COME OFF FABRIC!!!!!!!!!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Only if it's not attached that well (in other words, more to the fuzz of the fabric than soaked or pressed down into it), but if you put blobs of paint onto small "cords" of the fishnet stockings you may have enough of a finger-hold to pull each one off (especially if you do it before a week is up since it can take that long for acrylic paint to truly cure, not just dry).

    You might want to say exactly how you'd like to use the paint on the stockings, and how large the cordings and holes in the fishnet are.

    Now, if you're asking if you can basically paint the entire stockings with acrylic paint, then flex them by putting them on and wearing, and wondering if the paint or bits of it will fall off, I'd say that most of it will stay on IF:

    ...you brush or pounce the paint deeply down into the cording of the fishnet so it has really good adhesion

    ...you don't wash painted stockings for at least a week, and only by hand after that for best results

    ...you could also mix something called clear "textile medium" into your paint (up to 50%) to make acrylic paint even more flexible (...that's often done when using acrylic paints *on fabric*, or "fabric paints" can be purchased with the textile medium already mixed in)

    P.S. You probably won't be able to get away with *all parts* of the cording having *thick and dimensional* skinny lines of paint on them without having some cracks happen when they're flexed a lot though... but that's not the same as coming off.

    HTH,

    Diane B.

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