Jacquard

Jacquard Cyanotype lets you create rich, Prussian Blue-colored photographs and photograms on fabric or paper in just minutes. Use the Jacquard Sensitizer Set to prepare your chosen surface, then place objects or a contact negative over the treated surface and expose to sunlight or another UV light source.

Super-smooth Jacquard Lumiere glides onto any surface when airbrushed or handpainted with a soft brush. It can be stamped, stenciled, or printed, producing one-of-a-kind creations on a variety of surfaces including wood, leather, canvas, paper, and fabrics.

Jacquard Piñata Color line is a highly saturated, acid-free, transparent colors. These alcohol-based paints are indelible, and moisture-resistant when dry. For use on almost any clean surface including leather, glass, paper, plastic, metal, vinyl and more.

Procion dyes are permanent, colorfast, and very washable. You can easily create a palette of brilliant colors ranging from light pastels to deep, vibrant hues. Perfect for natural plant fibers - cotton, linen, paper, reeds, and wood.

These professional quality screen printing inks feature good body and a slightly stiff hand, making them well suited to commercial applications. They screen beautifully with excellent resolution. When screening art prints, they will not wrinkle paper.

Create vibrantly colored textile pieces with Jacquard Textile Colors. These professional quality, medium-body fabric paints are permanent and colorfast on synthetic and natural fabrics, stretchy and extruded fabrics, and porous and semi-porous surfaces like wood and leather. They never chip, crack, or peel, even after repeated wear and washing. Colors are intense and semi-transparent. Apply with brushes, stamps, squirt bottles, airbrushes, and more.

Dye up to 15 adult-size T-shirts, with vivid, electric colors that are so colorfast they can be washed with the daily laundry. Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes are already pre-measured for you in squeeze bottles. Just add water. Use on non-synthetic fabric.

Jacquard Piñata High Gloss Varnish is the only non-toxic varnish compatible with Jacquard Piñata Colors and other alcohol inks. It provides a durable, protective topcoat for alcohol ink artwork on any surface.

Jacquard Piñata Color line is a highly saturated, acid-free, transparent colors. These alcohol-based paints are indelible, and moisture-resistant when dry. For use on almost any clean surface including leather, glass, paper, plastic, metal, vinyl and more.

Perfect for hard-to-dye materials, Jacquard Basic Dyes are bright, beautiful, and easy to use. The powerful powdered dyes work great with wood and reeds, as well as acrylic fibers, most plastics, hemp, paper, leather, and more. The Set of 8 includes 0.5 oz jars of Basic Dye powder.

Achieve the best camouflage effects with this unique kit from?Jacquard. It contains everything you need to dye up to four shirts, including complete instructions for the classic camo pattern as well as ideas for creating three other dye patterns.

Citric Acid is a mild, odorless, powdered acid. Use it with acid dyes in place of vinegar to help fix acid dyes and exhaust the dye bath.

Traditional cyanotype was an antique photographic process distinctive for producing Prussian Blue monochromatic prints. Today, Jacquard Cyanotype lets you create rich, Prussian Blue-colored photographs and photograms on fabric in just minutes. Use the Jacquard Cyanotype Fabric Sheets and Packs to speed up the process and start making prints immeditely.

Jacquard Cyanotype Ferric Ammonium Citrate is a light-sensitive iron salt used with potassium ferricyanide for cyanotype printing. This is the raw material for creating Solution B in the cyanotype process.

Jacquard Cyanotype Potassium Ferricyanide is a red salt used with ferric ammonium citrate for cyanotype printing. It is the raw material used for making Solution A in the cyanotype process.

Jacquard Cyanotype lets you create rich, Prussian Blue-colored photographs and photograms on fabric or paper in just minutes. Use the Jacquard Sensitizer Set to prepare your chosen surface, then place objects or a contact negative over the treated surface and expose to sunlight or another UV light source.

Get sizzling color and electrifying designs in just 3 easy steps. This professional-quality kit supplies enough to make 5 adult-sized T-shirts, or any natural fiber garment of equal quantity. Finished projects stay brilliant after repeat washings.

Jacquard iDye Fixative locks in color on dyed natural fabrics. It increases color fastness, stops bleeding, and helps prevent staining of other fabrics during laundering. Use on most 100% natural fabrics, such as cotton, linen, rayon, hemp, silk, and animal fibers, but not synthetic fabrics.

Dyeing fabric in a washing machine has never been easier! iDye's self-dissolving packet eliminates the handling of messy powders. 30 colors for natural fabrics. Each package dyes 2 to 3 lbs of fabric.

Choose from eight vibrant colors for use with polyester and nylon fabrics. iDye Poly and iDye can be mixed for polyester/nylon blends with natural fibers.

The indigo dye process has long been used in many cultures around the world. Now, Jacquard brings the natural and ancient art of indigo dyeing to the home dyer in a user-friendly formulation.

This series of Tie Dye kits from Jacquard offers an assortment of jewel tone colors for creating sophisticated, two-toned dyed pieces.

Procion dyes are permanent, colorfast, and very washable. You can easily create a palette of brilliant colors ranging from light pastels to deep, vibrant hues. Perfect for natural plant fibers - cotton, linen, paper, reeds, and wood.

SolarFast dyes are colorless out of the bottle, but develop into beautifully vibrant and permanent hues when applied and exposed to sunlight. To create a print, simply brush SolarFast onto fabric or paper, place the objects, drawings, or photos on top, expose to sunlight, and watch the color appear.

Mixing Jacquard SolarFast Thickener with Jacquard SolarFast Dyes increases viscosity for use in screen printing. No heat, steam, or chemical fixing required. Printed fabrics are completely soft, lightfast, and washable, and images are permanent. Screen and tools clean up easily with water. On paper, Jacquard SolarFast Dye creates a relief-free surface.

Dye up to 15 adult-size T-shirts, with vivid, electric colors that are so colorfast they can be washed with the daily laundry. Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes are already pre-measured for you in squeeze bottles. Just add water. Use on non-synthetic fabric.

Dye-Na-Flow is a free-flowing textile paint made to simulate dye. These highly concentrated, translucent colors are incredibly versatile. They are perfect for silk painting, airbrushing, tie-dying, simplified batik techniques, or with a brush or sponge.

Create colorful, funky swirl patterns on paper, fabric, and more with Jacquard Marbling Colors. The traditional art of marbling is a great way to apply beautiful colors. Each application is one of a kind. Kits are easy to use and give professional-quality results.

Use these free-flowing, broad-line fabric markers on T-shirts, jeans, canvas and cotton fabric. They're loaded with color that flows as you need it and are ideal for filling in larger areas — just squeeze to increase the color flow.

Create vibrantly colored textile pieces with Jacquard Textile Colors. These professional quality, medium-body fabric paints are permanent and colorfast on synthetic and natural fabrics, stretchy and extruded fabrics, and porous and semi-porous surfaces like wood and leather. They never chip, crack, or peel, even after repeated wear and washing. Colors are intense and semi-transparent. Apply with brushes, stamps, squirt bottles, airbrushes, and more.

Use Jacquard Airfix as a catalyst to fix textile colors when the heat setting isn’t practical. Add it to Jacquard Textile Colors, Neopaque Acrylics, and Dye-Na-Flow Fabric Colors, as well as most other acrylic fabric paints.

Jacquard Batik Wax is a professional-quality wax that produces the distinctive crackle effect for traditional batik. It withstands hot water and is less expensive than beeswax. This specially formulated blend of paraffin and beeswax has a melting point of 131–141°F (55–60.5°C). The beeswax tempers the paraffin for better adhesion and less brittleness than paraffin alone. 1 lb tin.

Jacquard Beeswax is a pure yellow, refined beeswax that’s ideal for batik, candle making, and other crafts. Because beeswax is flexible, it produces less crackling in batik applications. Beeswax has a melting point of 144–149°F (62–65°C). 1 lb (454 g) block.

A natural gelling medium derived from seaweed that provides viscosity for marbling on fabric. Prepare at least 12 hours in advance of use.

Color Magnet is a dye attractant that magically attracts more dye wherever it's applied, resulting in a darker shade of the color being used. A thicker formulation designed specifically for screen printing, it can also be used for stamping or stenciling. 16 oz.

Turn rags into treasures! Jacquard offers an easy way to prepare old clothing and fabrics for a new life with fresh color, paint, or tie-dye. This highly concentrated liquid takes existing color and stains out of fabrics while it whitens.

Jacquard deColourant is a ready-to-use, non-bleach color remover. Use it to remove areas of color from dyed natural fabrics, including cotton, linen, silk, and wool. Unlike bleach, it won't weaken your fabric. Cleans up with water and doesn't activate until heated. Available as a paste or mist.

Use mixture of Permanent Dyeset Concentrate and cold water to set painted fabrics. Results in beautiful, lasting color without the wait associated with steaming.

Transform ordinary fabric into sculptures, mixed media collages, home décor items, and more with Jacquard Fabric Sculpting Medium.

Resist is used to draw the edge of an image on silk, stopping the flow of dye at the resist lines. Colorless Gutta Resist is made from natural gutta percha to produce the finest resist available. Can be thinned with Gutta Solvent for use on heavier silks.

Use Jacquard Gutta Resist Solvent to thin Jacquard Gutta Resist to the desired consistency appropriate for the weight and weave of the fabric, such as heavy silks or tight weaves. Just a little of this solvent will make Gutta Resist flow more smoothly to freely penetrate the entire fabric. It makes cleanup easier, too.

Use Jacquard iDye Color Remover to remove or lighten colors and brighten whites on all types of fabrics — without bleach! Ideal for whitening dingy, aged, and stained fabrics, or reverse tie-dyeing and reverse low-water immersion dyeing techniques.

Jacquard iDye Fixative locks in color on dyed natural fabrics. It increases color fastness, stops bleeding, and helps prevent staining of other fabrics during laundering. Use on most 100% natural fabrics, such as cotton, linen, rayon, hemp, silk, and animal fibers, but not synthetic fabrics.

No Flow is a starch-like fluid that inhibits dye from flowing freely when applied to fabric. It is especially useful when making fine lines with a brush or fabric pen. No Flow dries clear and rinses out with warm water.

Jacquard Soda Ash Dye Fixer is a mild alkali dye fixer necessary for activating and setting Jacquard Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes. It can be used as a pre-soak before dyeing, mixed directly with dye for immersion dyeing, or added to the dyebath in the washing machine.

A derivative of seaweed, Jacquard Sodium Alginate is the best thickener for use with Jacquard Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes. Used to control spreading when painting or screen printing, it can be safely applied to cotton or other cellulose fibers.

Jacquard Synthrapol Detergent is an industrial strength, neutral detergent created especially for fabric dyeing with Jacquard Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes. Used as a prewash or afterwash, it helps prevent backstaining by keeping loose dye particles in suspension.

Specially formulated to obtain the best results with Jacquard Procion MX Fiber Reactive Dyes, Jacquard Urea slows the drying process, thus yielding deeper shades by allowing more time for the dye to react with the fiber.

Used to draw the outline of an image on silk, superior Jacquard Waterbased Resist has a smooth consistency that holds a crisp line without spreading. It won't shrink or pucker when dry. Suitable for silkscreening, Jacquard Waterbased Resist is odorless and non-toxic. Choose Permanent or Removable.

Ideal for animal hair fibers such as wool and mohair, as well as silk and nylon, Jacquard Acid Dyes produce the brightest, most brilliant colors possible.

Jacquard Silk Dyes are true dyes, not thinned pigment. They will not stiffen silk or mask its natural luster. These intense, rich, translucent colors may be blended directly on fabric or intermixed separately to create an infinite range of colors.

Introduce young artists to the joys of silk painting with the Jacquard Silk Hoop Painting Kits. Great for home, school, and camp craft projects, these silk hoops can be painted, dyed, stamped, and more to create beautiful window or wall art or sun prints.

Sprinkle puffed crystal salt on wet painted fabric to create brilliant bursts of color. The salt absorbs the dye as it dries, leaving exciting textured halo effects. Works best on medium to dark shades.

Popular for silk painting, these various sized scarves are 100% Chinese silk, hand rolled and hemmed with silk thread, ready to paint or dye.

Adds translucency to oil paints, making them more brilliant. Also used as a final coat on dry paintings, metal sculpture, wood carvings, and antiques. May buff to gloss finish. Thins with turpentine.

Jacquard Airbrush paint is a rich, paint specially formulated for airbrushing on any surface including fabric, leather, wood, plastic and metal. Jacquard colors are bright, clear, and intermixable. Once dry paint is permanent, indelible, and acid free.

Let your creativity take over as you make your own transparent watercolors, washes, stamping, and calligraphy inks with Jacquard Gum Arabic. A versatile binder medium, it mixes easily to produce glossy paints with colors that are more vibrant and transparent. It also extends drying time and cleans up with water.

This three-dimensional metallic paint is perfect for embellishing T-shirts, greeting cards, scrapbooks, fabric, wood, leather, and much more! Jacquard Lumiere 3D also works wonderfully as a bead or fabric glue.

Super-smooth Jacquard Lumiere glides onto any surface when airbrushed or handpainted with a soft brush. It can be stamped, stenciled, or printed, producing one-of-a-kind creations on a variety of surfaces including wood, leather, canvas, paper, and fabrics.

Lumiere and Neopaque acrylic paints produce a super-soft feel. This pack contains 0.5 oz (15 ml) bottles in 9 colors, including Metallic Gold, Metallic Olive Green, Metallic Copper, Metallic Bronze, Pearlescent White, Pearlescent Violet, Pearlescent Blue, Black Neopaque, and White Neopaque.

Jacquard Neopaque Acrylic Paints and Sets are light body opaque acrylics that can be painted, stenciled, and stamped. Use them on all surfaces, including wood, leather, canvas, paper, and natural and synthetic fabrics.

The base for both Lumiere and Neopaque paints, Jacquard Neopaque Flowable Extender is ideal for increasing the durability, flexibility, adhesion, and washfastness of most acrylic paints. It has a thinner viscosity than Neopaque colors, so it can be used to thin them without altering their adhesive properties.

Create your own lustrous metallic paints, glazes, and durable finishes on any surface with Jacquard Pearl Ex Varnish. Ideal for use with Pearl Ex Pigments, this waterbased varnish can be used as a medium or top coat on paper, clay, metal, wood, or plastic.

Add lustrous glow to paintings, drawings, jewelry & sculpture. Mix pigments into any viscous medium like oil, acrylic, gouache, varnish, wax, paper pulp, or clay. Also for collage and mixed media art, printing, and pottery.

Add the Jacquard Synthetic Ox Gall one drop at a time to a secondary paint tube or palette to increase the spreading of the Jacquard Marbling Colors. It gives artists more control over the direction of the paints.

Add lustrous glow to paintings, drawings, jewelry & sculpture. Mix pigments into any viscous medium like oil, acrylic, gouache, varnish, wax, paper pulp, or clay. Also for collage and mixed media art, printing, and pottery.

Jacquard Aluminum Silk Screens are made with watertight, perfectly flat and taut, pre-stretched white 110 mesh that's adhered to an aluminum frame with durable glue. The frames are cut and welded by hand and sanded smooth.

Screen print on paper, fabric, and other surfaces with Jacquard Aluminum Squeegees. They feature durable polyurethane blades and contoured aluminum handles for comfort and consistency while printing.

The Jacquard Film Marker lets you create hand-drawn film negatives on Jacquard SolarFast Film for use with Jacquard SolarFast Dyes. It’s also ideal for making hand-drawn film positives for screen printing stencils when you’re using Jacquard Screen Printing Inks. Permanent black ink goes on smoothly, dries instantly, and is non-toxic. Keep a few on hand for marking up or archiving photographic media as well.

With Jacquard Photo Emulsion, you can burn stencils directly into a screen for photo imaging quickly and easily. This light-sensitive emulsion is durable and can be easily reclaimed from the screen using diluted bleach. It also works great for half tones, lettering, logos, and high-detail images.

Jacquard Puff Additive increases the relief effect of prints on natural or synthetic fabric, paper, vinyl, metal, and leather when added to Jacquard Screen Printing Inks. Heat must be applied. Once puffed, the print is washfast and dry-cleanable.

Used to create a positive stencil on silkscreens and to achieve "painterly" effects, Jacquard Screen Drawing Fluid can be used with all waterbased screenprinting inks.

For use with all waterbased screenprinting inks, Jacquard Screen Filler and Block Out is formulated for safe and easy use with Jacquard’s Screen Drawing Fluid, or for independent use to block out portions of a silk screen.

Get bright, vivid colors on dyed dark fabrics with Jacquard Screen Ink Discharge Additive. No need to lay down an undercoat of white ink—simply add this liquid additive to your Jacquard Screen Inks (not included) and you’re ready to go! This process retains a softer hand on fabric than is achievable with several layers of ink, and it reduces the amount of screening needed.

Mix Jacquard Screen Printing Ink Extender with Jacquard screen printing inks to make them more transparent. It will not alter the texture or consistency of the ink, and it cleans up with water. Use with Jacquard screen printing inks only. Made in the USA.

These professional quality screen printing inks feature good body and a slightly stiff hand, making them well suited to commercial applications. They screen beautifully with excellent resolution. When screening art prints, they will not wrinkle paper.

Make your own art prints, cards, and wearable art with this professional quality screen printing kit. It's ideal for paper, fabric, vinyl, plastic, leather, and more. The durable inks adhere to most surfaces and are water-soluble for easy cleanup.

Create softer prints on lightweight fabrics and apparel with Jacquard Softening Additive. Designed for use with Jacquard Professional Screen Inks (not included), this liquid additive changes the viscosity of the inks to help you achieve a softer effect.

Mixing Jacquard SolarFast Thickener with Jacquard SolarFast Dyes increases viscosity for use in screen printing. No heat, steam, or chemical fixing required. Printed fabrics are completely soft, lightfast, and washable, and images are permanent. Screen and tools clean up easily with water. On paper, Jacquard SolarFast Dye creates a relief-free surface.

Use Jacquard SolarFast Wash to remove undeveloped Jacquard SolarFast dye from prints. This concentrated detergent also reduces the risk of back staining (redepositing color where you don’t want it) during washing. This is especially important for preserving white areas and highlights when making photographic prints on fabric or paper.

Jacquard Versatex Clear Extender can be added to Versatex Screen Printing Inks to increase color transparency when printing on fabric or paper. This clear, non-toxic, water-based extender won’t affect the consistency or texture of the ink, plus it’s washfast and lightfast. Cleanup is easy with soap and water.

When mixed with water-based screen printing inks, Jacquard Versatex Screen Life slows drying time so you don’t have to rush your screen printing projects. It preserves water retention and extends workability time — particularly helpful for long print runs or hot, dry conditions. Screens also clean more quickly and easily.

"Fix" your heat setting problems and improve washability with Versatex Screen Printing Color Fixer! Add the Fixer to Versatex fabric paints, printing inks, or airbrush colors and no heat setting is necessary.

These versatile, ready-to-use inks are ideal for silk screening, stenciling, and block printing. All colors are intermixable and can be thinned with water. Though heavily pigmented, Versatex will not change the texture or softness of the fabric being printed.

These 3-pointed pushpins stretch even delicate fabric without damaging it, yet they provide superb hold. Strong stainless steel, reusable, will not rust.

Keep your supplies organized and easy to identify with the Jacquard Clear Plastic Jar. This gallon plastic jar has a wide-mouth top with a removable lid for easy filling and storage. It’s recyclable and made from recycled, post-consumer materials.

Get precise liquid applications for your art and DIY projects with the Jacquard Fine Line Applicator Bottle. This 1 oz plastic bottle features a fine line tip with a removable cap for no-fuss storage. The squeezable container is translucent, recyclable, and made from recycled, post-consumer materials.

Access your liquids quickly and easily with the Jacquard Flip Top Bottle. Made of lightweight plastic, this 2 oz bottle has a squeezable, translucent body and a flip-top cap. It’s recyclable and made from recycled, post-consumer materials.

Store, mix, or apply your liquid materials with Jacquard Plastic Bottles. These bottles are easy to fill and have a clear construction. They’re recyclable and made from recycled, post-consumer materials.

Use these handy Jacquard Plastic Droppers for measuring and mixing paints, dyes, or other liquids. Five per package.

Mix and apply dye easily and precisely with the Jacquard Plastic Dye Bottle. This 16 oz (0.47 L) squirt bottle is ideal for tie-dye projects.

This pack of five Jacquard Plastic Jars is great for storing pigments, paints, and other dry or liquid materials. The wide-mouth 1/4 oz jars are easy to pour and fill. They're made of clear plastic and have black lids.

The low-odor Jacquard PrintFix Protective Spray creates a powerful barrier that protects against UV fading, fingerprints, dust, moisture, and humidity. Use it on watercolors, silk paintings, giclee and inkjet prints, or any other printed, dyed, or painted projects. This spray also prevents scratches and smudges and can be safely used on wood, leather, epoxy, polymer, clay, canvas, and more. It can increase fade resistance by up to 100% and is also fast-drying and non-yellowing.

Aluminum heads with sharp stainless steel points make these Jacquard Stainless Steel Push Pins perfect for tacking fabric to wooden stretcher frames. Won't rust or leave large holes in fabric. 100 pins per box.

An excellent tool for all artists, Jacquard Syringes are great for detail work and transferring paint. The clear plastic syringes are easy to clean and won't leak, even when working with thin liquids. Made in the USA.

Spray any liquid! The Jacquard YouCan Refillable Air Powered Spray Can looks and feels just like a regular aerosol can. Fill it with your favorite paint, medium, or other liquid and use it over and over again.

This soft 1/2 oz plastic applicator squeeze bottle can be used for fine detail with fabric paints, resist, glues, ceramics, candymaking, cake decoration, model making, and miniatures. Includes three bottles and three stainless steel tips.

Jacquard Eucalyptus Oil, which is distilled from the leaves of the Eucalyptus globulus tree, works with jagua and henna powders to produce darker stains on the skin. Jacquard Eucalyptus Oil is 100% pure and comes in a 2.75 fl. oz. can.

Add a dose of shimmer to your look with temporary glitter body art. The Jacquard Glitter Body Art Kit offers endless design options for fun, sparkling decorations on your skin. Use the included self-adhesive stencils or create a custom design by drawing freehand with the fine-tip applicator bottle.

Henna has been used as a natural colorant for many centuries, and Jacquard Henna brings it to you in a convenient, easy-to-mix form. It produces a rich brown-orange color that can be used to stain skin, fingernails, hair, leather, silk, and wool. On cellulose fibers, it develops into a pale ecru color.

Make jagua gels for body art quickly and affordably with Jacquard Jagua Pre-Mixed Powder. Simply mix the 100% natural powder with water and essential oil (not included) to produce a gel with great drape and flow that leaves a consistently dark stain on the skin.

Create your best body art yet with the help of Jacquard Jagua Pure Body Art Powder. Use this jagua to increase the potency of jagua gels, make your own gel from scratch, or mix it with henna to create your own "hengua” in various stains. The jagua is a safe, 100% natural, water-soluble powder that is also shelf-stable so you can continue using it for months to come. Made in the USA.

Express yourself, fool your friends, or try tattoo ideas with the Jacquard Jagua Temporary Tattoo Body Art Kit. Safe and 100% natural, jagua ink creates real-looking blue-black tattoos that last up to two weeks. Use the provided transfer paper to trace, or draw a freehand tattoo directly onto skin.

Create beautiful, exotic temporary body art inspired by the Eastern practice of henna. Traditional Mehndi is drawn on the hands and feet, but with Jacquard's Mehndi Henna Kit you can draw gorgeous designs anywhere you want. Henna designs last seven to 12 days, fading gradually until they disappear.

Create intricate body art designs with confidence using Jacquard Spirit Body Art Transfer Paper. The transfer paper acts as a road map when applying henna or jagua (not included). The transfer paper is especially useful for transposing designs from sketchbooks, magazines, or even a computer screen. This package contains 10 sheets.

Create fabulous fabric appliqués using images from scanned photos, digital cameras, photo CDs, your desktop inkjet printer, and the Jacquard Cotton and Silk Inkjet Fabric.

Print your own images on delicate organza to create beautiful embellishments for collage, cards, scrapbooks, textiles arts, crafts, altered books, and more with Jacquard ExtravOrganza. This unique silk organza fabric sheet is versatile and easy to use.

Jacquard SolarFast Film is a transparent film for use with inkjet printers. Create photographic negatives for printing with Jacquard SolarFast dyes or Jacquard Cyanotype products as well as film positives for screen printing applications. It’s ultra thin (4 mil) for optimal detail, and specially coated for maximum density.

Jacquard Iron-On Transfer Paper turns drawings, photos, clip art, scanned images, and text into wearable art and home decor. Run it through any inkjet copier or printer; you can even draw directly on the transfer sheet! Then iron your image onto any lightweight fabric following the instructions.