Printing from the Garden:
A Botanical Printing
and Natural Dyeing Guide
Printing from the Garden is an invitation into the world of botanical printing and natural dyeing, where flowers, leaves, and plants become the medium for printing on fabric and paper. This eco-printing and plant dyeing guide includes a compendium of 30 different plants, each revealing its own color, form, and presence when printed—capturing the spirit of the garden in lasting impressions. Gorgeous photography by Kristen Teig.
“A masterclass in learning how to use garden and foraged botanicals to create natural prints. Printing from the Garden opens the doors to wonder and possibility; the only limit is your imagination.”
“Printing from the Garden is a gorgeous eco-printing book that shows how to capture beautiful flowers and foliage to impart lasting and breathtaking results on fabric, clothing and paper. Alison Kelly offers step-by-step instructions and practical advice to bring backyard botanical creativity into your life. A must have guide for designers, gardeners and makers!”
Seasonal BOTANICAL Printing
Masterclass SERIES
DIVE DEEPER INTO THE COLORFUL LIFE OF PLANTS WITH A BOTANICAL PRINTING MASTERCLASS!
Join me live this summer and engage in a series of seasonal workshops exploring botanical contact printing as plants naturally emerge, peak, and fade.
This masterclass expands on the
methods in ALISON’S BOOK:
Printing from the Garden,
bringing them to life in real time
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Foundations & Early Spring Blooms. April is all about laying a solid foundation for the months to come. We’ll go over how to prepare fabric and paper for printing and create a swatch book of gorgeous botanically printed examples of early spring blooms.
Materials, mordants, papers, fabrics
Inspired harvesting
Early bloomers & leaves
First successful prints
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Printing with Leaves & Layering: Why leaves are such reliable and potent printers and how to use them effectively across both mediums of paper and fabric.
Leaves vs flowers
Effective mordant techniques for strong prints
Composition & negative space
Troubleshooting weak prints
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Peak Color & Abundance: The flora of June in the northeast brings an abundance of color and spirit. We’ll focus on getting brilliant colors from flowers and how to preserve excess blooms for later use— trust— you’ll thank yourself in January!
High-pigment plants
Pressing and preserving flowers
Color variations
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July shines a spotlight on hibiscus & rose of Sharon (my absolute favorite flowers to print with)! We will cover in-depth how to print larger-scale pieces that will still fit into the steam pot and tips for creating beautiful comprised botanical motifs.
Blue imprints from giant hibiscus blooms
Green imprints from yellow hibiscus
Sea foam green-to-teal imprints from rose of Sharon.
Printing large-scale pieces