Eco printing and print making

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A coreopsis eco print sampler. 🌼 A few folks have asked for example prints of the different varieties of coreopsis flowers so I made this eco print sampler with the 5 varieties they are currently blooming in my garden. 🌿✨ 1. Plains coreopsis 2. Incredible Swirl 3. Lance Leaf 4. Red & gold uptick 5. Sterntaler For this sampler, I worked with bamboo silk, mordanted with method 3 from my online ‘Printing with Flowers & Leaves’ course. ✨This is the last weekend to receive 50% off with code SP...
The key to flower prints that withstand wash & wear is mordanting & plant choice. 🗝️✨ 👉🏼✨Comment PRINT & I’ll send you a ✨free✨ tutorial where I share exactly how to create stunning prints with flowers. 🌼 Mordanting is a pretreatment process where the fabric, that will be dyed, is soaked in particular mineral salts. The mordants bind onto the fiber - creating a chemical complex - then, when exposed to natural dyes, they create insoluble bonds with the dyes - essentially fixing them into the...
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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.