Earlier this week I spent a lovely afternoon with my botanical-dye-and-printing-friend Katherine, catching up, enjoying being in the yard and doing some printing. I’ve been using Fabriano Medioevalis paper since I began my botanical printing adventures and I have always been happy with the results. The papers measure 3.5″ x 5.5″ and are a nice […]
wild blackberry
Even More Botanical Prints
I’m still using soy milk and iron blankets to print these papers. It’s interesting to see how the various plant materials act with the same treatment. This time I reduced the steaming time to one hour. I don’t see a significant difference in the printing with the reduced time. Click on an image for a […]
Botanical Printing and Natural Dye Part 3
After several days of printing with the larger pieces of fabric, Kristy brought out note cards for us. What a great bonus! Here is my first bundle of 5 note cards ready for a bath in cochineal. And here are the iron blankets and the cards. Again, so fun to have two prints in this […]
Botanical Printing and Natural Dye Part 1
I spent four days in early July with Kristy Kun of Opulent Fibers and three classmates learning about the process of botanical printing and natural dyeing. Kristy spent the week before our class preparing the fabrics with mordant — a substance that prepares the fibers of the fabric to bond with natural dyes — and […]
Wet Cyanotype Process
I have been creating cyanotype prints on fabric since I learned about the process from Sue Reno in 2006. I enjoy the process and I feature cyanotype prints in many of my art quilts. I’ve used pre-treated cotton, raw silk, china silk and silk organza to create my prints. Each fabric features it’s particular fingerprint […]
