Taiwan botanical printing teaching

Last month I have a great time in Taiwan for a private fibre art teaching. We started printing on fabric to paper and leather as well doing wool felt then printing and made it purses. It's a nice experiment with local plants gathered in Taiwan and we're exploring some special techniques to make a series of colourful creation.

This simple basic wool scarf printing with little alum and iron to have two shades.

Linen silk with little logwood background

Paper printing is nice on water colour paper

Logwood plays wonderful magic

A piece of lamb leather with assorted leaves

Shibori skill on rayon

After making wool felt we printed with eculyptus then sewed zippers to make them purses.

Papers are made into art books.

Such nice time we work together. 

Arrays of colourful fibre creation in a week with creative students.

Art book of nuno felt and eco print 羊毛+植物印染手作本

 

Ever since encountered wool felt, I've further explored the versatility of 3D nuno felt.  An art book of nuno felt cover thus made.  This is a special gift for an artistic friend who lives in the fragrance of lavender and inspires me lots of creations.  This art book is for the friend we known for decades who likes to write me letters in fountain pen........

一本植物印染、羊毛 nuno felt質感書皮手工釘裝 的小本是我特別送給一位很藝術的朋友， 這二十多年的書信她總會用鋼筆很工整的書寫，我想這小本子會是她記載此行來港的一份小紀念。

 

An art book with  natural leaves prints and enclosed with a ceramic button

 

Leaves prints on recycled papers and hand bounded.  

 

3D nuno felt texture looks organic.  The fabric is my natural prints with euc leaves and dyed in pots of iron and barks. 

 

Book cover of nuno felt with wool and mulberry silk strings degummed by myself.

 

And a little ceramic button made by me

 

Inside wool cover with leaves prints.

 

A bookmark made with nuno felt and blanket stitched.

 

Some papers with leaves prints..... rose leaves...

 

Eucalyptus leaves...

 

Liquidamber from Argentina friend Delia G...

 

Rose leaves plus eucalyptus leaves.... green and brown shades...

 

An art book made with all the skills I learnt.

 

An art journal of 10 signatures, 60 papers, i.e. 10 pages, size of 17cm x 12 cm.  Though not all printed pages are good, it's made with heart and a touch of love to a special friend who will be visiting Hong Kong shortly.

 

A special gift for the friend to jot down the visit, a diary or whatever purposes. ......

 

This is how I made it.

  Laid out the wool, put over mulberry silk strings and dyed silk fabric.  After felted, put the leaves and bundled boiled for 1.5 hours.  Cut the discarded envelopes, sandwiched the leaves for the flat set and boiled for 1.5 hours (boiled together with wool felted cover and other stuff to save energy). Bound it a journal.  That's it.

 

A special gift for my great friend.  Thrilled for the visit in two months.

Overjoyed rose petal prints 玫瑰玫瑰我愛你

 

Nice good day !

These days really overjoyed with rose, not only the rose leaves delight me as usual, the petals are surprisingly with color and outlines with my way of printing.

   Pictures speak themselves........

 

 

It's pretty to frame it or make a card, isn't it?
Sending you my dear readers these images.  Have a nice day !
If you like to make it yourself, my pdf instant download tutorial is available in ETSY.