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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Simply life with simple natural prints 簡約生活●簡單植物印染

  

A simple life for me is simply to start a day with light breakfast....... toast on own made ceramic dish, brewed coffee and dried nuts.  What's more is with the brat in my front.

簡約生活 , 自作自受, 一口香濃咖啡, 兩片多士, 與貓兒共享.......細意品嚐.......我的天然植物印染.

幾乎每日每刻與我共存共享就是這些創作印染, 每一件不能重複, 那麼獨特, 這就是驅使我不停實驗研究的動力, 這裡有連結教材購買自學, 我以簡單材料圖文解說, 兩份教材從基本而至有層次色調可供選購.

1) 基本製法

2) 層次感媒染製法

 The wool flannel table runner printed with assorted leaves and plants in shades is the first tutorial I listed on ETSY.

 

 

After the many experiments I made the prints with iron carrier to bring out the shapes and shades.  As have to do a few samples for the workshop, I tried a few eucalyptus on the silk swatch.  Here are the samples done lately.

In the workshop we used only a few species of plants but the most effective for any prints is onion skins.  Even on cotton prints are impressive and bold. The images above are the mirror prints on silk and cotton of the onion skins.

 

With less or more of scattered onion skins, outcome is different.

   

The rich on the bottom with iron carrier made the shades.

Technique of making prints rich like this with appropriate mordant you can create unique fabric art.  Here's the link of my instant download pdf tutorial in ETSY.

 

To make a simple yet fabulous shades and shapes of natural prints you will find my basic pdf instant download tutorial in ETSY.  

Natural prints tutorial 天然印染教材

 

 A DIY purse simply with leaves gathered in my area and printed on both sides with different contact prints skills. Here my cat Mogi shows this side.

 

 Fabric of the purse is woollen and strap is cotton with iron prints. 

 Woollen given by Nicola Brown.  It's so soft and prints so well.  No wonder Mogi likes it as pillow.

 

 

 Layout with euc,  Lagerstroemia Indica, casaurina and cones to make shades.Then bundle boiled for an hour and plants pigments released on fabric

 

Whichever you call it, my contact prints or natural prints are all from natural resources. With my step by step tutorial started with mordants making it's easy to create unique fabric art with shades and variations.

The instant download pdf tutorial is available in my ETSY shop, English version and Russian version.

Simple T-shaped top making 簡易 T 形剪裁上衣

 

Making a pattern is sometimes arduous for me but this T-shaped top is simple and easy without measurement. Prints and dyes are natural from plants on knit silk jersey which is easy to sew as well.

一片在課堂做的試驗，葉子及不同色調效果的針織絲料，把弄一點，對摺剪裁成 T 字形袖子，縫上同料長腰帶，就是一件簡易小襯衣。

The silk jersey is about 80cm x 100cm, a sample print done in the Spain workshop. 

I used the native plants for the prints then dyed in indigo, weld and logwood for shades of blue, green and purple.

Our teacher Irit Dulman encourages us to do more experiments with different plants, not necessary to do on a big piece so that we can make use of the sample prints for garments. She encouraged me to dip in logwood and weld with the indigo dyed fabric for color shades.

  
I like the soft silk jersey with purple and green tone. To make it into a top, I fold in two and cut the T-shape sleeves curve, cut the neckline and lining then sewed the bottom with a long strap of the same fabric for the scrunched waist . That's it

Round the waist strap twice, tie a knot.  Viola, a free size loose top blouse is done.

Front and back of the blouse with different leaves from Spain
(long waist strap hide inside)

Prints of the native leaves still clear after dyed in weld and logwood.

The simple loose blouse I made with the sample prints

 

Since I'm too addicted in experiments I have loads of sample prints.  They will be made into garments or dye for other colors. The top blouse mentioned is dyed in indigo then dipped in weld that makes green. Knowing well the color palette,  green can also be made with turmeric (yellow) and indigo (blue) and so on.

This one is dipped in indigo then turmeric (available and cheap in grocery or supermarket spice section).
 Playing prints and dyes are interesting with variations.

 Sometimes I got inquiries from overseas for the teaching. I'm glad for the approach but not always can make it. People may like to follow my pdf instant download tutorial for the basic yet fabulous shades of prints.  Here's the link for the tutorial in ETSY, English version, Russian version.