Introduction -- The historical production of silk -- Materials and equipment -- Silk fabrics suitable for painting -- Silk paints and dyes -- Fixing your work -- Outliners and resists -- Basic techniques of silk painting -- Tensioning the silk -- Drawing outlines -- Using silk paint thickeners -- Applying colour -- Repairing leaks of colour through a resist line -- Painting-in backgrounds -- We-into-wet for a watercolour effect -- Working with anti-fusants, no-flow or anti-spreads -- Watermark patterning -- Further silk painting techniques -- Working on velvet -- Procion dyes -- Using fibre etch gel to create devorée pattern -- Discharge paste -- Silk painting and Shibori techniques fixed in a microwave -- Colour mixing -- Outline control with tint and tone exercise -- Silk painting sampler -- Planning a design -- Applying further surface decoration -- Silk painting projects -- Templates.