Italy trip of botanical printing workshop 1

 My trip to Italy was fruitful and colourful. 

Arriving Milan on a sunny day and received by host Marisa Tacchi of AttivArte Ecoprint. Marisa is a brilliant artist and generous arts instructor. I took part in silk printing with her and the group done beautiful scarf printing

 

Host Marisa is so generous

Workshop was taking place in this medieval castle Sala Baganza in Parma. First day was silk scarf printing.

 Participants in the spacious workshop

 

 

After delicate layout and steaming for 1.5 hours they made it. 

 

They made silk scarf printing with shades

 

Students are happy and I'm glad for my involvement. 

 

 

Another session is my main part of leather printing

 

With proper mordant and techniques they made the colourful swatches of leather printing.

 

Just with kinds of weeds and dainty little dried flowers and leaves they made the vibrant color printings.

 

 

 After the two sessions Marisa and I were taking part in a community centre to introduce botanical printing for a group of special participants.

 

With our instruction they followed and created nice leather prints

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The leather printing of layout and printout.

 

After the session they’re interviewed by a journalist and a press released in local daily paper.