Acacia powder is more commenly used for stomach problems, but it is also a great resist. I had trouble finding the stuff here locally, so I bought it through Amazon.com. This was the first time I used it, but I will be using it more often in the future.
To make the resist you use half powder and half water. I don't know how long it stays okay, but I had mine in a container (outside the fridge) for more than a week. I used this coaster as my stamp:
Applied resist on it and pressed it down on the fabric. After it had dried I applied dye using a foam brush to one piece of fabric and I used Setacolor paints on the other piece.
This is the dyed fabric. You can see the pattern of the stamp a bit, but not as much as I had hoped. However this is how the painted fabric looks like:
Much better, don't you think?
My stamps were a bit unusual :-). Again one was a coaster and the other one was the container in which I bought an apple pie. Now the question is, did I buy the apple pie because I wanted a pie, or did I buy it because I wanted the container :-) I'll leave it up to you to give the answer. The coaster had a bit too less texture to give a proper print of the resist. I have used it before with paint and that was more successfull. The container however gave a lovely result. Anyway here is the picture of my stamps:
