Yesterday I gave two brief round textile printing workshops on the DWGWD pageant, a Dutch sustainability pageant for everybody who desires to take motion to scale back local weather change. The pageant came about at BlueCity, the round hub in Rotterdam. On this workshop – which I hosted along with my Residing Color partner-in-design Ilfa Siebenhaar – we taught contributors dye and print materials and paper with pure pigments from waste streams.
TATAKI-ZOMÉ FROM WASTE STREAMS
Tataki-Zomé (たたき染め) is a traditonal Japanese methodology of transferring leaves and flowers onto cloth or paper. It’s a type of nature printing, however as an alternative of utilizing inks or paints, tataki-zomé makes use of the colors of the plant itself. In English this system is usually known as “flower pounding”.
First the flowers or flower petals, leaves and stems are organized on prime of the floor that’s going to be printed, both cloth or (watercolour)paper. Subsequent the flowers are coated by a paper towel or wax paper. Then the flowers and leaves are hammered, so the juices and colors are pressed into the floor. It is also attainable to create a mirrored sample by folding the paper or cloth over the flowers, as an alternative of masking them with a paper towel. This creates lovely imprints of the colors and shapes. Relying on the sort and color of flower or leaf, the result’s both very correct or summary.
We gathered the flowers over the course of two weeks from the market and florists who couldn’t promote these anymore, as a result of the flowers wilted or that they had snapped on the stems. The cotton I sourced was both finish of roll or had stains from water injury, which I used to be in a position to wash out.
NATURAL COLOUR MANIPULATION
We additionally demonstrated make a textile dye tub of vegetable leftovers: onion skins, beet peels, purple cabbage and avocado peels & stones. We took purple cabbage to indicate manipulate the color by altering the pH worth. The purple purple cabbage dye modified to purple or pink after we added vinegar and to blue or inexperienced after we added baking soda. The contributors might give their printed materials a dip-dye within the purple cabbage dye tub after which experiment with altering the color.
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| Color manipulation with purple cabbage |
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