How I like the Andalusia region of Spain, especially in spring with flowers blooming everywhere. That led me travel to south Spain and spent some time earlier with like-minded people in Montilla, Cordoba and Malaga for botanical printing as well explore the beauty of Spain. This post is about the eco printing with native plants on leather, fabric and papers. Next will be the stunning views of the region.
In south Spain, lands with olive groves, vineyards as well blooming cherry blossoms or almond is common. For me it's eye opening for the stunning views no matter strolling on foot or in a train passing by.
More gorgeous photos followed in the next post.
The Moorish old quarter in one of the beautiful villages
What made me happy on arrival was the yellow marguerite daisy all over the rural. I am glad to share experiments of my way of working on eco printing. We tried different substrates mainly with the yellow wild daisy,
Both Carmen and Ana printed on leather, linen silk and papers but with different mordant. They are pleased with their experiments particularly the yellow daisy is amazing.
For mordant we used dried husks of pomegrante for tannin extract plus alum and ferrous sulphate. Blankets of iron and tannin vice versa for different outcome.
Simple natural dyes prepared for the fabulous results.
Printing on leather in low heat is fine.
Printing on fabric in high heat for an hour.
Layout on paper with sandwich stacks of plants and blankets
Tannin from pomegranate with iron contact gets olive color background on this linen silk
Color shades of assorted species of flowers printed on leather
Bold prints of coreopsis, even dried ones are effective on any substrates
I like such vivid flower prints on linen silk
On paper wild marguerite daisy also looks outstanding
Carmen's piece of linen silk with alum mordant, thus the yellow flowers tended more yellowish
Purple from begonia leaf
Printing on soft and thin lamb skin.
Ana's skirt of her own way of mordant, covered by iron blanket. Dainty yellow flower printing on lower part.
I have a memorable good time in Andalusia thanks to Carmen, Ana and their families' warm hospitality.
There's such variety in the results, isn't there!
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