🌈A Spectrum of Color from food waste & food dyes by @thedogwooddyer Be sure to check out her profile for great tutorials. Tapping a tiny waste stream at home just may be the EASIEST way to begin natural dyeing for ANYONE who has always wanted to try. 🍽️ As holiday meal season approaches, Learn everything you’d ever want to know on the very approachable gateway to dyeing: food & food waste color! ✨A Year in Natural Dyes✨ & my 🥕Food Waste Dyeing Lesson Download🥕has it all! Where I share all...
Eco Printing: From my heart to yours 🧡
Botanical dyeing on beautiful hand-woven mulberry silk. Eco printing is ‘printing leaves & flowers on fabric with help of a mordant’ Taking my walks in the forest and stumbling upon eco printing by chance - is how eco printing happened to me. It got me interested in the idea of how to print leaves and flowers onto fabrics especially silk to create unique leafy patterns and prints. I feel each piece that gets printed, tailored and crafted is more of a ‘piece of art’ than just an outfit.
Have you tried eco printing with natural dye infused leaves yet? 🍂 ✨👉🏼 Comment LEAF & I’ll send you a list of my favorite leaves for eco printing 🌿 This has become one of my favorite printing techniques. Capable of yielding an array of results with minor adjustments and the utilization of differing natural dyes and leaves - like most natural dye techniques, it’s a dreamy mix of play and science. ✨ The leaves are infused with natural dyes before being laid upon mordanted fabric, rolled, bun...
👉🏼 ✨Comment BLOOM & I’ll send you my free eco printing guide that explains exactly how to create beautiful plant prints on socks🌼✨ The truth is, there really are no fast tricks when it comes to natural dyeing. It’s a nuanced process that involves a lot of thought and intention. It can take time to figure out how to get fantastic prints. 🌿 That’s why I’m sharing some of my favorite tips with you today! 🩵 In the video, I mention that I’ll further explain why I use a good amount of detergent t...
Has anyone seen this pattern before? I stumbled upon it while experimenting with different comb combinations. I looked around in some marbling books and haven't come across it yet. I'm kind of surprised because it's pretty derivative of other patterns in marbling art. I think the design looks like happy little ferns waving in the wind. Or tree tops dancing back and forth. I love the energy and the colors together. I'm pretty thrilled with the results! I've been working on surface pattern ...
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