Creating Colorful Silk Scarves At The Tulsa State Fair

A booth at the Tulsa State Fair which makes silk scarves peaked the interest of News On 6 reporter Tess Maune, she told me about it and I went to the fair and turned a silk scarf into a story. 

"It's really the art of water marbling," said Lindsay Cessac with Silk Road LLC.  

Lindsay Cessac and her business partner Amy Walker found some folks doing this in Florida, talked them out of the secrets and brought it to Tulsa. 

They've got a tiny booth in the Exchange Center at the fairgrounds that features a shallow trough containing water and something mixed with it.

"It's a plant fiber mixture that we make that makes the dye float on top of the water," said Lindsay Cessac. 

The design for your scarf is totally up to you. There are 16 different colors to choose from. Because Tess Maune found the story for me and she's an OSU fan, I selected orange and black. 

Lindsay had me arrange black droplets in a zig zag pattern down the trough. After the black I went back in with some orange drops. 

Now the cool part. Once I had finished with the dye, she gave me a stick and said swirl it around. 

"You're just gonna start at one end and work your way down the tray," said Lindsay Cessac. 

I did that and look, guess that's where the name water marbling came from. 

Now the really cool part, Lindsay took a white silk scarf, dipped it in the dye and the design was instantly transferred permanently onto the scarf. 

A crowd which had gathered around the booth loved it. 

Again, Silk Road LLC is located in the Exchange Center at the Tulsa State Fair. For more information visit their Facebook page.