Textile colors, cool or not?

A couple of weeks ago I started thinking of how cool it could be to draw directly on to fabric.

I first got the idea when I was looking at pretty fabrics on ebay, they all had such cool patterns but they are really expensive. I then saw one piece that looked handpainted, it had a very organic feel and it looked funky so it got me thinking.. what if I could paint patterned fabric myself?

Allthough, now a couple of weeks later I realize that it probably woundt ever come to use so now Im now thinking that it would be cool to be able to paint unique illustrations on to t-shirts! (a little bit more contemporary and useful :D)

So I’ve been looking up textile colors (wich Ive never used) and Im wondering how good a handpainted image could really turn out. I want to paint directly on it with brushes but Im afraid it might make it look ”homemade”. Allthough I want it to look organic and artsy I dont want it to look crapy and cheap.

I googled a bit on it to see what other people have made but I mostly found handpainted silk, those drawn on to cotton werent very impressive. :/

If I’ll buy textile colors it will probably be the ones on the photo, a guy from grafisktforum.org recomended them :].

Does anyone here have some experience in painting directly on to fabric?

If anyone does it would be a miracle :D