🌹 Botanical Printing: Brilliant Mordants for Protein and Celluose
This workshop showcases one of my favorite techniques for dyeing and printing fabric with plants: “Brilliant Mordants and Printing in Color with Flowers.” Designed for artists, this course empowers you to create vivid botanical designs on natural fibers. Participants will immerse themselves in the art of utilizing plant and insect-based dyes alongside fresh leaves, fresh and dried flowers, plant extracts, and even food waste to achieve stunning and unique results. With just a few simple mordant recipes and techniques at your disposal, your creative possibilities are boundless. Join us in exploring the enchanting world of natural dyeing and experience the beauty of fabric infused with nature’s palette.
This workshop showcases one of my favorite techniques for dyeing and printing fabric with plants: “Brilliant Mordants and Printing in Color with Flowers.” Designed for artists, this course empowers you to create vivid botanical designs on natural fibers. Participants will immerse themselves in the art of utilizing plant and insect-based dyes alongside fresh leaves, fresh and dried flowers, plant extracts, and even food waste to achieve stunning and unique results. With just a few simple mordant recipes and techniques at your disposal, your creative possibilities are boundless. Join us in exploring the enchanting world of natural dyeing and experience the beauty of fabric infused with nature’s palette.
This workshop showcases one of my favorite techniques for dyeing and printing fabric with plants: “Brilliant Mordants and Printing in Color with Flowers.” Designed for artists, this course empowers you to create vivid botanical designs on natural fibers. Participants will immerse themselves in the art of utilizing plant and insect-based dyes alongside fresh leaves, fresh and dried flowers, plant extracts, and even food waste to achieve stunning and unique results. With just a few simple mordant recipes and techniques at your disposal, your creative possibilities are boundless. Join us in exploring the enchanting world of natural dyeing and experience the beauty of fabric infused with nature’s palette.
This course is designed as an engaging e-book complemented by numerous illustrative photos and videos. Upon purchase, you will have access to this resource for a minimum of 2 years, allowing you ample time to explore and absorb the content at your own pace. Each component has been thoughtfully crafted to enhance your learning experience, providing you with the tools and inspiration needed for your journey into natural dye techniques.
This workshop includes beautiful photographs of the processes, process videos for visual learners and instructive text around the following :
How to prepare fabric for dyeing (how to mordant)
How to bundle dye with flowers
How to eco-print with fresh flora
Supplies needed to create botanical prints
A “Brilliant Mordant” recipe
A “Post-Mordant” technique & recipe
A fabulous “Quick Indigo” recipe (no vat necessary) for a post-printing process for glorious gem toned greens
Instructions on how to select and successfully print with leaves and flowers, fresh and dried
Fabric recommendations
Many photos and visuals outlining the processes.
These techniques can be applied to both protein and cellulose fibers, and we’ll take a special focus on silk and wool. A myriad of variations can be achieved when applying these techniques to your dyeing practice and countless variations are available from switching up dyes, flowers, leaves and fabrics.
This course does not cover botanical contact-printing with carrier blankets— that course is coming soon, stay tuned!
After purchasing this course, you will be sent an email with a link and password to access the course. Flora Obscura courses live online, on our website, so a special link will be sent to you upon purchase, not a download. A question field is located at the bottom of the course and user questions will be posted with answers are they come in.
There are no returns for online courses, if you experience any issues please reach out!
TESTIMONIALS:
“Alison, you were a patient and knowledgeable teacher, and a marvelous fashion designer. I appreciated the focus on hands-on projects. I suspect that is the best learning style for most of us, and the sensory pleasure of working with the dyes, botanicals and fabrics made it an especially rewarding experience. It was an experience I will never forget, and hope to build on what I have learned in my own creative life. I am attaching a picture of myself wearing the silk velvet scarf I made to a dinner with friends. It is a pleasure to wear, especially since I can brag that I made it myself! Everyone is always duly amazed.”
“The more I read, the more I love love love the class. It’s exactly what I’ve been trying to achieve and needed to know. Thanks for being a great teacher and for sharing your art and craft with me.”
