Tutorial of Leather-Linen-Paper botanical imprints making

 

I am happy that during this critical time I still quite creative in natural printing and just consolidated my years hard work and combined a written tutorial of enhanced botanical imprints on substrates of leather, blended linen silk and paper. 

 

 

My new version of botanical imprints is mainly of flower prints on leather with mordant to enhance in-depth and vivid of natural prints.  I have the last version of botanical imprints on leather which do not need mordant it's the basic imprints technique and only focus on leather printing.  This new listed instant download tutorial is not only leather imprints with my way of mordant, also sporadically mention of blended linen silk and the ideas of combo leather & linen fashion accessories creation.  Last but not least is the bonus of paper prints making.  So this is my latest version of botanical imprints with leather-linen-paper inspiring ideas of bounty from nature.

  

E-book of 64 A4 size pages with more than 250 colorful images and steps of making prints from mordant and "before & after" images for reference.

 

Can't imagine such vivid prints of flowers leaving striking marks on leather.

 

Always peeling off is the exciting moment.

 

Flower and leaf are good pair.

 

Shades of yellow on dark background.

 

Gerbra is such delicate printing.

 

"Before and After" - placement for reference.

Second part of the tutorial is blended linen silk mordant and sample prints making. You'll see the strong to light gradient color.

 

I will show the sample making of  fashion accessory of this combo leather-linen creation. 

 

A reversible chic belt of leather and linen.

 

It's so nice to make prints with own grown flowers. A purse I made with the hydrangea my husband planted for me.

  

I made the prints with flowers picked from friend's house.

 

Idea of making purse.....

 

and scraps for art journal cover.

 

A bonus of the tutorial with paper prints making.

 

Prints on papers for greeting cards, tags, art journal or any purposes.

 

I enjoy process of handmaking.

 Sneak peek of the instant download eBook tutorial. You may like to browse the listed item on my ETSY

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Botanical imprinted leather and the purses 植物印染皮包包

 

There are lots of different types of hides in the market suitable for botanical printing. Since I don't know or even the shop I usually source supply does not know how the leathers were tanned, printing outcome varies with different sorts of plants.  I like to try imprints with my technique, particularly on sheep leather.  This one with cochinael background just printed and sewed into a messenger bag.

  

I made it box-sided for more room.  Detachable strap with buttons fixed inside and flap embellished with seashell.

 

Part of the printings with own grown strobilantes.

These days I was quite free and sewed a few purses. 

 

In case people who are new to botanical imprinted leather, here's a video clip of the piece I just done.

 

Most of my techniques are more or less the same but with various plants and dyes for different result.  This is a leather purse of two sides printed with lemmon marigolds, willow and ginkgo.

  

  

Another sheep skin with more flower prints.  The main flower is gerbra.

 

Close up of the prints of both sides.

 

This is a two-sided purse.

Since the experiment swatches are not big and I just made it a small purse size as iPad but all with inner pocket and lined with eco printed fabric. 

 

This iPad size purse with detachable braid strap.

 

My cat Mogi always curious for what I have been making. I really can't remember how many pieces I have mafe.

These are some of my purses, most were gaven away.  I like to do printing experiment and make use of the swatches to purses.  I sell my experiments of botanical imprints technique.  Here's my pdf instant download tutorial you may like to have a browse.