A canvas zipper pouch with flowers and designs painted on it using Natural Acyrlik Paint colors blue, green and yellow.

The First Natural Acrylik Paint for Fabric: Waterproof and Permanent!

June 26, 2024

With the release of our Natural Acrylik Paint, we are excited to offer the only natural and plant-based fabric paint that is permanent and water-resistant! After years of customer demand, you can now use the Natural Acrylik Paint to decorate clothing, shoes, bags, and cloth of all kinds!

Supplies:

Natural Acrylik Paint (Individual tubes or Sets)

Fabric (natural fabrics such as cotton, rayon, or linen work best - although all types of fabric work great)

Fine Art Paint Brushes (opt.)

Step 1: Choose your colors

Person's hand squeezing out blue paint from a Natural Acrylik Paint tube onto a palette next to 3 other tubes of paint and a palette knife

Step 2: Paint your fabric with the Natural Acrylik in any design you want!

Close up shot of a person using a paint brush to apply blue paint to a canvas like fabirc.

Care instructions: If you want to wash your fabric, we recommend waiting 24 hours until the paint is fully dry/cured and then hand-washing and hand-drying the fabric. However the paint is durable enough to be machine-washed (hand-washing is just gentler and may increase the life of the design).

Person's hands using a paint bursh to apply blue paint to a canvas zipper pouch with three other dollops of paint to the left.

And that's it! Have fun designing t-shirts, bags, pillowcases, tea towels and more! Need some further inspiration for your fabric painting? Check out these videos featuring our Natural Acrylik Paints as they are used to design a shirt, customize a pair of shoes, or paint a leather jacket!

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Handy colour mixing chart

A useful chart showing the actual colour plus what it looks like when mixed with Titanium White Rutile. I shall want to make my own colour chart to see precise colours, but this is a handy guide.

Great little booklet, but cannot easily be transformed into a 'normal' book

This booklet is exactly what I expected, and very useful. My only issue is that I couldn't find a way to print the .pdf version as a booklet and staple it together. Instead, I will need to cut it down to individual A5 pages and glue along the side to turn it into a book.

I wish I could just add water

I love that this is non toxic but I’m not a fan of adding oil. It made the paint too dark and it took days to dry. I tried adding less oil but the paint was too chunky. When I added more oil, it was too dark and again took almost a week to dry. I really wish I could only add water.

Super smooth and easy to work with! Love that it's nontoxic.

Bright saturated hues

As a water fluid painter on raw canvas I was eagerly anticipating NEP’s fluid paint. It did not disappoint. The texture is a medium weight fluidity and the color is richly saturated. I look forward to continuing to experiment with the fluid technique I am perfecting using these paints.

LOVE this paint!!

These are the BEST!! As a professional artist, I’m transitioning to eco-friendly acrylics and these are my “go-to” paints. The only thing I can say is that I’d love to see the black in larger tubes too!!

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