DIY eco printed art journal 植物印染小本子

 

I want to jot down what's in my mind for the next creation.  

The art journal with pages of botanical prints and printed leather cover as well embellished with dainty finds is a keepsake.

  

Journal cover with printed flowers picked on bike ride, twigs from hiking,  sea shell and stone from beach walk. Before opening it I want to say a big thanks to my mentor master Irit Dulman who inspires my botanical printing world.  The first year I stepped into her promising land I was so delighted to see the wild yellow flowers all over the country Israel.  I almost felt in love of the pretty prints with such flowers.  Two years ago Irit gave me the seeds for planting.  It grown so well and I used some for the printing. Flowers gone and I didn't grow in seed bed this year but to my surprise the seeds from last blooming became thriving and blooming again in my rural studio field.  Can't resist to do some more yellow prints with the flowers.

 

 Just picked a few home after biking.......

 

Made stack of paper prints with sorts of leaves then boiled for an hour.

 

Yellow flowers are the outstanding prints among other leaves.

 

 

With Mogi's paw stamp my prints approved.

 Is it nice to make the all-purpose card?

  This brat says hi to you.

Bind with other papers to make an art journal with eco printed leather cover is another good idea.

 By the sea to read my story of creation while listening to the wave.

  

Jot down ideas of inspiration after a day or write my diary.

 

Holding a physical art book is contented that memories are not easily wash away. Bond in the art book and enclosed with leather cover, knotted with a broken procelain scrap.

Making art journal is part of my journey of eco printing.

 

As to steps of making botanical paper prints and fabric prints you may like to view my instant download pdf tutorial ,for leather prints pdf tutorial in my ETSY.

記憶....從製作小本子開始.....

把弄花葉烙印在紙張上、皮革上

繫以小貝榖、石子、羽毛、樹枝、破瓷

小黃花尤是所思所念

那年以色列之旅

從此愛上了野生小黃菊

啟蒙大師贈予花籽洒在田野

每年春日盛放

That year walked the dog Anna with host Betty, such a leisure walk in the suburb of Israel.

This is how I made the little journal.

Eco prints on paper 紙張植物印染

 

I keen on experimenting different paper prints. Here are a few of the outcome

   

 Just grasped the paper index dividers which I do not need for my box file. Prints of the top image is not bad.

 My friend Zeinad gave me a few delicate handmade papers from India with sort of hair, may be horse hair? Prints with euc and rose leaves are quite impressed.

 Rose leaf never made me disappointed.

 Even on a recycled music paper from my girl is very strong.

 Left is a used paper envelope, right is the paper index divider

 My way of making paper prints is easy with my handy tools.

 I stacked a batch of paper with leaves sandwiched. Tied tightly with the racks (a simple aluminum steaming rack common in Chinese cooking). That's exactly the size of my used rice cooker (use the old one that will never used for cooking meal !). Boiled for an hour, here it comes.......

 I made some papers with different prints, always have  approved by this brat !

 An artbook with eco prints of  paper and silk fabric together with nuno felted cover with own made ceramic buttons.  Thought this is my "signature" artbook with the crafty ideas I've made so far .  

"Mum, you need to fine tune or crop it."

"Yes, Mogi , the making of artbook is to follow......"

Until next time.
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Eco print wordless story book 無言的故事小本

 My wordless story book with affection of the area I grew up.

這小本子的製作, 沒有文字在內, 但那製作過程印記著為何我愛上植物印染及對沙田的生活情感......

 

Again a binding journal I made with the idea come from the rust iron mentioned in my last post.

  

Each page is of leaf prints

Wool felted book cover with prints of euc leaves on both front and back.

Outer cover with string marks and eucalyptus cinerea leaves.

This is how I made the prints on paper.

I laid the leaves over the iron absorbed fabric,  lined a few small conqueror papers, again put some leaves over and covered with another iron absorbed fabric.  A total of 3 stacks (sandwiched) so made more than 20 pages in one go.  Rolled up the fabrics,  bundle tied.  Wrapped with micro wave plastic, then boiled for 45-min and stayed in the thermo pot overnight.  Unbundled and flat dried the papers. 

I made the wool felt book cover and bundled with kitchen paper core with leaves in between.  I like to use the hard paper core to make the sausage bundle so it's easily bent to fit into my round pot. Tie with strings and boiled in  dyeing pot with euc leaves and barks so the color come out browish / reddish.

Papers in 8 signatures.
  Binded it with the wool cover and embellished with my handmade ceramic button as a closure.  A little journal of 128 pages is made.

Intended to have the light prints and more spaces for writing. 

Pages of local eucalyptus leaves, rose leaves, maple leaves, cajeput leaves and other unknown species.

 

   Euc is always my fav.  I know there're local euc trees but never aware how they look, what matters to them or even make prints with  them !!  Until last year inspired by other eco print bloggers (dipandstain is one of it)  I gave it a go.  This is the first euc tree I passed by almost every weekend to my mother in Shatin (沙田).  Since then I hooked on eco print on silk fabric and now on papers. 

This little book made with my bond affection of the area where I was growing up also now my mother lives in.

I  cycle along the river bank to my mother at times.  The other day  I saw some old pictures displayed at the train station which brought me to the nostagia of this town. 

This is Shatin, in Chinese means "sand field".  A well developed town with Shing Mun River.
 

Then was a small village with the same river.  

In the 50-60's was a small village where my parents lived and worked in town. 

  Quite remote for work and school. I took the steam train to school in town.

Now linked with rapid train.

Farming or fishing. 

 Life was hard and simple..... but contented.

"Morning Mist"

Such were the famous spots for salon photography

All were reminiscence.  I love those days.  Our family lived there for some years then moved to town.  In the recent 10 years my mother moved back to Shatin and I see her weekly.
蒼海桑田, 物換星移, 城村發展或保留總有爭議, 往昔的環境祗 有在舊照中"想當年".

This is the euc woods in the Shatin Central Park.  My mother sometimes picks up the windfalls for me to play with eco printing. The string marks I made for the woods look.

With autumn drawing, old leaves blowing.....

Old barks peeling off.......

But for the wind blown and saw off trunk, green leaves are thriving....

This is a blank book with no words.  May be one day it's written with the journey of my art / craft experiments.

Thanks for sharing my story.

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