Custom order botanical imprinted fabric 特定的植物印染布料

 

My very sweet client Dawn of Arizona is very supportive to my works. I'm so so blessed to have such a nice lady who has already ordered from me some items. She loves my eco prints and asked if I can make a big curtain  (4 yds) of autumn leaves with red, yellow, khaki, brown, rust  whatever as I usually make for her kitchen..  Honestly I'm not keen to do custom orders as it's quite challenging but Dawn leaves it with me. I said I try to do it into each 2 yds, if it's not up to taste, no worries I can make use of it for other purposes.

 So. these days I gathered some windfalls and bought euc silver dollar and rose leave.

 With a sketch I put it "fallen leaves on the ground"........ rose leaves, maple, Loropetalum, casaurina, mandarin leaves, euc silver dollar and assorted windfalls on georgette silk...

 Casaurina with "nuts" are quite nice prints

Fallen leaves on the ground.......

Air drying ........

close up of the prints, all speak themselves ..... green, khaki, dark, brown, red, orange....... all those are come from leaves pigments, shades with iron mordant, vinegar and alum....

 

 

 Brown prints of Loropetalum

 

 Casaurina and the nuts, a few euc silver dollar......

 Orange come out of euc with alum mordant

 Strong imprints

 Green from mandarin leaves

Curtain one -  Full size 44" W x 74" L

 Curtain 2 - same size

 Two pieces together

 Color of fall

 Are they ready to ship?

Through my eyes.... my autumn color......

Have a good day.

My signature art book no. 2 我的 "特色"小本子

 

Another botanical imprinted art book for a special friend. Leaves are mainly maple, assorted euc and melaleuca quinquenenia (白千層樹).  I intended to make it a bit fun with cat shapes cut from leaves.

我很少 (其實不大喜愛) 為人客做特定作品, 我愛自由創作, 隨心隨意, 不受約束的, 也許是我行我素,  但美國的一位人客已先後購買了我多件製作, 她再要定做植物印染小本子, 沒有指定的款式, 祗要是我的任何形式也喜歡, 於是就用我的想像也很用心的完成了這小本.

 

Front cover with maple leaf

Khaki is the color tone, paper prints are mainly of dark outlines.

In between I inserted the silk fabric of botanical imprints.

The silk fabric is printed with rose leaves, maple and the euc silver dollar to bring some bright color.

A few pages with melaleuca quinquenmervia

I put the silk prints next to the paper prints.  An art book of five signatures with silk fabrics and 8 pages of 2-folded, i.e. 80 single pages or 160 front & back pages.

A cat - looking forward to the new home.....

The nuno felt cover with my self botanical printed silk

Tied with self made ceramic button

A custom order for a special friend .

The book cover is made with my botanical prints with pines and leaves collected in my area.  I made the mirror prints.  One side for the art book.  The other for a nuno felt handbag.

Making something unique is my way of creation

These two art books will be on the way cross the ocean to the States

Thank you for Dawn's support to my work.

Eco printed autumn themed scarfs 秋意盎然植物印染絲巾

 We're into hot summer but a light scarf is still a fashion accessory in air-con office. To have a crispy summer day, I made the fall themed scarfs with mixed colors.

The two scarfs,  above and below of different patterns.

 This one with few strokes of pine prints as tree branches and a few rose leaves,  some eucalyptus cinerea for the bright orange / reddish.

 The "before and after" of leaves laying - casaurina pines, assorted euc, rose leaves and maples

 Shades of color are due to iron mordant and assorted euc.

 After 1.5 hours boiling came the bold prints

 

"Hearts" of euc cinerea

 

 Rose leaves with iron mordant

 Rose leaf without direct iron mordant but "immersed" by the nearby leaves.

 Maple leaves with iron mordant

 

Silk scarf with mixed windfalls

Quite some people asked me about eco printing, lots enquiries from local, Argentina, Chile, US......even Uruguay.  Well, I'm happy to share with like-minded.

If you're the first time to make a silk scarf with this prints without any mordant, are you happy?  That's done by my student's first time under my guidance.

 For beginners if they can do prints of orange / reddish shades from eucalyptus with simple process I suppose would be pleased. Some people said that they'd never got bright color, sharp prints, dark shades...... I said eco printing is quite regionalism.  Plants, water, soil, temperature, process and methods of making are factors of outcome.  Here in Hong Kong I rarely have purple, blue or yellow direct prints from leaves.or flowers.  

 With more experiments I can make shades.  Mogi is happy in the shade!

 

  

 This scarf is on my ETSY shop

 

  

Also this one on my ETSY shop 

 

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