Maybe someone can help.....
 

I have a friend who is a painter. She came with me yesterday to this quilting week-end and of course was wrapped in everything we're doing and browsed through lots of fabric.
Now her question is: if she made a painting on a canvas, flat, not on a frame, and then integrated this canvas in a quilt, say as a middle piece, is there a way to treat the canvas so the quilt later on could be washed too.
Thanks for your ideas and feed-back.
Have a lovely Sunday!!!
Cheers

No idea about treating the actual work.

Some have painted pictures ... photographed them, then had them made into fabric so that it looked like the original.

If you made a wallhanging, it would probably work. But washing? If she painted with a fabric paint on some kind of fabric, it would probably work. I don't know how canvas would wash. But Quilti has the best idea. Check her out.

She could paint directly on the fabric, is she used a fabric medium with acrylics.

she should test out fabric paints and paint sticks for fabric to see how it feels. would have to read what ever she buys to see about being able to be washed, etc.

I would suggest fabric acceptable paint on quilting grade cotton. The canvas would be too thick and wouldn't match the weight of the rest of the quilt.

If she is into computers then there are quite a few programs available to help scan/dray/etc whatever onto fabric.

Does she do silk painting?
Otherwise I cant see at all how this would work. It would be too stiff, surely, even without the washing conundrum?

I agree with Alikat - the canvas is too thick - my suggestion would be to paint on the cotton & then make the quilt around it - Gloria Laughman - Aussie quilter does that with great results

I believe the answer is within the art community. This is not something quilters deal with. However having said this, we see many quilted pieces entered in shows that the base design has been painted with thread painting over the painting. So the question for me is why would it need to be washed. Is the artist to make blocks to be put into a quilt to be used on the bed. Questions, questions.

Check out the way Gloria Laughman does it.( As Sandigrove sain) She work with paint, fabric and threads, with great results.