Pine leaf prints & logwood dye 針松植物印染

 

These days I keen on experimenting pine leaf prints.  Haven't yet found Casaurina but only one or two local species work for me, thought the Horsetail Pine (馬尾松) is the best. The one I did on a silk fabric yesterday.

近日喜以 針松印染, 因為可以做到細緻線條.  這次以洋蘇木片一同做印染, 加點紫色,  簡約清新.

  

Intended to do it delicate, less is fine. I just put a little pine leaves with a little bits of euc silver dollar to make reddish spots.

Leaves layout as this

Diagonal two-folded

 I wanted some purple thus boiled in the cooker with logwood chips.

Unbundled after an hour

Before and after

"Mogi, do you approve it?"

No more no less,  just put in the middle of the fabric a little pines.......

with a little purple and tie marks

 

This is a 2-yd silk fabric of 52" w. 

May use as a wrap, a shawl, a scarf......

May be I would sew it to a dress, all depends. 

  Anyway this is an experiment of pine leaf prints.

I've a few bundles in the pot now, they're with different sorts of leaves and layout.  I'm sure they're "exceptional". Will show more next time.

New prints after Israel 以色列學的針松印染

 

From the workshop in Israel, I learnt from Irit Dulman  the prints of pine - Casuarina.  Yesterday I went to the area near my studio to source the pine.  To my surprise there're a few.  I picked a little and tried on a silk fabric. Here's the one just done.

 

I'm not sure if this is the sort of Casuarina.  No harm to do experiment with it.

 

I laid a few different plants - euc, rose leaves, camomile and other unknown.  I put on half  the fabric and folded. 

 

After 1.5 hours boiling.  Camomile is bright, pine is not so but still clear .

 

Before and after for comparison

 

Just love the yellow prints, golden yellow.

 

The two-fold come out funny

 

Try your imagination........

 Simple prints tested.  Another scarf for the light summer breeze.

Thought the iron mordant for the pine is not enough.

 

Another silk fabric I printed with pine is darker. So that's the difference of mordant.  Will show more after the fabric turned into a wearable.