Leaf dyeing fabric

NATURAL DYEING | REBECCA DESNOS on Instagram: "Nettle prints 😍🌿 This one of my favourite feel-good projects 🤗 It’s so satisfying to make realistic prints on cloth. Follow the techniques in Plant Dye Zine for the longest lasting prints that don’t wash out of the fabric. Order the book in print or digital via my website, rebeccadesnos.com. Other great leaves to print include sage, yarrow, parsley, mint & lemon balm. Any leaf that’s tender and moist is worth trying. It won’t work with dry…

Rebecca Desnos 🌿 Natural Dyeing on Instagram: "Hammered Leaf Prints 😍🌿 There’s something so rewarding about capturing the delicate details of leaves on fabric 🤗🔨✨ 👉 Comment “ZINE” if you’d like more info about my book, Plant Dye Zine 🍃. It’s full of natural dye techniques for creating vibrant colours and patterns, including this plant pounding method. Some tips to get you started: 📌 Leaves to try: nettle, sage, yarrow, mint, and lemon balm. 📌 Experiment with any soft, fresh…

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator on Instagram: "Oak & Sycamore Leaf Dye 🍂 Leaves are one of my absolute favorite fall dye sources. While we don’t get the vibrant autumn colors here, that doesn’t mean they don’t produce gorgeous dyes. As tree leaves mature, their tannin levels rise, making fall the perfect season for natural dyeing with leaves. I love gathering freshly fallen leaves—especially oak leaves, which tend to shed branches and leaves naturally, making them easy to find in good…

Autumn leaf dye blanket eco print on silk & cotton [Video] | Fall crafts, Leaf dyeing, Eco printing

LOUISE UPSHALL | ECO-PRINTS & NATURAL DYE | I’ve been dyeing with eucalyptus leaves for years, and I am still amazed each time I unwrap a bundle and see the results ✨✨ Firstly because... | Instagram

Learn what to use to naturally dye fibers, fabrics and yarns with this list of natural dye yielding plants. Flowers, leaves, barks, roots, bugs and kitchen scraps that make beautiful colors. Dye material options, tutorials and information to get started with your natural dyeing adventures.

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

It's over a year since I first wrote a post about using an iron blanket. I remember doing more bundle dye experiments when all the leaves changed colour in 2017 and I did get closer to the iron blanket effects I hoped for. A couple of weeks ago, noticing some of the oak leaves were already falling, I managed to find the pieces of cloth I printed last year, but really couldn't bring to mind quite how I had done it. Unfortunately, last autumn I had little headspace to spare and wasn't…

Get stunning results with the simple technique of sun printing on fabric also knows as Cyanotype. Upgrade your fabrics with leafy patterns!

Every May when the trees come into leaf, I find myself full of enthusiasm for their loveliness and inclined to start collecting some for hammer printing. Then I work away on a piece of cloth and soon remember hammering is a noisy business that rapidly grows dull and find I've chosen the soft, squashy kinds of leaves which get mashed into the fabric or dryer ones that barely leave a mark, no matter how I thump them. A lot of trial and error gets repeated every year for transient rewards…

This blog post is about fabric dyeing with ivy (using mordant). I live in the UK there is lots of ivy everywhere. They can be invasive. Therefore I decided to obtain some dye out of them. However, ivy is not the easiest plant of all to obtain dye from. I am also not sure if […]

Jamie Young - Natural Dye Educator | 👉🏼Comment FLOWER & I’ll send you a list of my Favorite flowers for botanical printing 🌼✨ The truth is, there really are no fast tricks… | Instagram

Lois Ericson shows you how to create uniquely colored and patterned fabrics with ordinary household bleach.

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Fresh fern leaves laid onto pomegranate-dyed fabric. Natural pomegranate dye with eco printing – Days of Small Things #naturaldyes #ecoprint