Botanical printed leather 植物印染皮革

Have you seen such botanical printing on leather?

Such bold prints with flowers and leaves are amazing. 

Delighted to have a bunch of talented and creative students learning leather printing in my home studio. They bought some plants and got few weeds from my corner. With their magic hands and creative minds here come the result. Mother Nature is kind to us as well weather was good. With flowers, foliages, weeds…. All have their unique layout and printouts.  They walked away with skills of mordant and two-sided printing technique.
很高興幾位充滿熱誠富創意的學生在我家居工作室學習皮革植物印

染，他們帶來花卉植物，也從我家角採了一些雜草，憑著意像鋪陳，皮革烙印了這些成果。大自然的恩𧶽，天氣又良好，花朵、綠葉、雜草…每一種都呈現出獨特的佈局印染效果，他們不僅掌握了媒染還學習雙面印染技巧色調。

 

I prepared batch of materials incl. sheep leather and fabrics 

The big gerbera is the most impressive printing

 

First piece I taught students with natural dyed blanket coverage. The cover fabric dipped in logwood with little iron thus come the different shades

After the first piece they also learned how to mordant their own leather.

Eco printing is like bakery.  I describe it as making a cake you can just mix flour, sugar, butter, egg....but different steps with variety.  So for a good look of leather printing mordant is vital for. Some iron, alum and others....  heat and timing are points to note.  If you're interested you may find my ETSY instant download pdf tutorials inspiring.

Started layout and bundling

Always opening is so exciting

They learned printing on both sides, that is under and over (right side and suede side)

So you see different hues and shades of both sides printing

 

 Each student made their few pieces with different coverage.  Such experiments made them happy and already wanted to do homework.

Thank you for my lovely students.  We get inspired from each other.