Eco printing paper

What are the best plants for eco printing? Here is a free list of leaves and flowers that make great eco prints on paper and fabric.

LOUISE UPSHALL | ECO-PRINTS & NATURAL DYE on Instagram: "Watercolour paper can produce beautiful eco-prints, but you also make magic with the most simple papers from around your house - magazine pages, food packaging, and even copy paper/printer paper like I’ve used here. If you’ve already tried some of the projects from my free eco-printing ebook, let me know how it’s going or if you need any help. If you don’t have the guide yet, comment PROJECTS and I’ll send you the link to get it! 🌿✨"

Use leaves and foliage to print on fabric using iron mordant and basic eco printing cotton method, full detailed instructions with pictures

How to EcoPrint on Paper : 9 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables

Now that discussed all aspects, let's start wrapping and boiling: 1. Put the mordanted and wrung cloth flat on a piece of plastic 2. Put a few leaves on the surface. Note: the back of the leaf gives the sharpest prints. 3. Put a second piece of fabric (or the other half) over the first piece. 4. Take a round wooden stick and roll the folded cloth tightly and evenly around it 5. Bind it all off with string - not too tightly and not too loosely. 6. Fill the kettle / pot with enough water to…

Eco-Printing With Rust & Vinegar: Eco-printing is a method of bundling leaves and other plants in fabric, and steaming the bundle(s) to print their natural pigments onto the fabric. You can buy kits and special chemicals to do this, but you can also try it out with household materi…

These days I’m visiting the Art Department of Sir Thomas Picton Schoolin Haverfordwest and I’m learning a lot of useful techniques, lessons, systems and creations from the art teachers Ms. Diana B…

Eco printing on paper.

2016 Topic 9: Mono Printing Vickie Porter Hi everyone, Darcy here we are with the start of another topic, this time we are mono printing. This is the technical term for creating 'one off' prints, and there are many ways to do this. The name 'mono' means single, and in this case it means a single print can be made at a time. Each successive print needs more paint or ink applied to the block or plate, this changes each print ever so slightly, meaning no two are identical. With some techniques…

Look at that awesome color I got from ornamental kale (or cabbage?) that I swiped on a recent trip to Charleston (it was ready to fall off the plant anyway!).

Eco print

These haunting florals were created with the eco-print technique and flowers from the garden. #textiledesign #ecoprint #interiordesign #naturaldyes

Drawing over the top of eco-printed paper is a lovely project to do with all the samples that accumulate. It can be a meditative process, and can also inspire new ways of drawing. Even if you don…

I love to ecoprint. I find the random results fascinating. The prints are easy to make, so I continue to experiment with different mordants and combinations of leaves and flowers. Have you done this before? I hope you find it as exciting as I do! All of these experiments provide me with tons of bot