DIY art journal with natural prints 手作小本子

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The art journal I made with nuno felt cover........

以羊羊混絲及植物印染的藝術小本是我特別喜愛的手作，每一次都是獨一無二，尤其內頁的植物印染不能重複，當我完成了，捧在手上，很有滿足感，要是送岀去也想收件人懂得珍愛，今日就寄出遠在北歐的一位幸運兒 Christina，她在我的Facebook 專頁答對問題。希望這羊毛書皮小手本帶給溫暖！

..........with botanical imprints and blank pages. The art journal is more than 100 pages for writing. 

The purple nuno felt cover is the main part of the art journal. It's the silk chiffon scrap I wrapped with a little logwood chips to boil with alum for a purple dye bath for other fabrics dyeing. Each time I make the purple dye bath in this way, so a few scraps saved and always wanted to make use of every bit.

Base of the cover is Finnish wool and textural surface is the purple chiffon. 

Closure is a wool felted button. Glass beads are embellished for sparkling look.

Some pages with natural contact imprints of maple, ginkgo, oak and a few unknown local species.

This maple is windfall from Korea. A a friend who knows I love to do leaves imprints. She got it from Korea. This one is bold and I love most.

Art journal of 7 signatures with more than 100 pages for whatever purposes.

Be it a diary or sketch book........... it's a nice handmade art journal.

May be a note book for travels......

Now I decided to give it away to someone who may find it special.

This is a giveaway for the lucky one who left comments on my Facebook  page for the gimmick. Christina, this is on the way to you.... in the Scandinavian country. Wish you find it warm in your coming long winter!

Blue and purple from the same green leaves 同一種葉的綠、藍、紫印染

 Purple tone from the same green leaves........

 I made the imprints from the same green leaves to purple in my lazy way........

 Traditional indigo blue from sorts of plants like Strobilantes by making vat but I only have some leaves barely for imprints.

 Two years ago I was fortunate to be invited to join the French expert  Michel Garcia's workshop in Hong Kong (last post). The indigo blue vat was made from the local Strobilantes,  the exact name I can't recall.  After the event the farm owner was so kind to give me a small plant to grow.

Now it's thriving and I've been doing experiments for a few times in the non-traditional way.
兩年前參與法國專家 Michel Garcia 的天然植物染後 (當日網誌), 綠田園農莊給我的馬藍已很茁壯生長, 不時我會做些簡單試驗, 近日以加熱移印法做出紫色調是我的新嘗試 .

 This is the species of Strobilantes.  If anyone knows the exact name I'm glad to know.

 Usually I only do fermentation then soak the fabric for sometime to get the greenish blue

 Sometimes do pounding for the marks on cotton.

 This day hit my mind to try boiling, to my surprise I got pink-purple.

Here're the "Before & After" images of the two printed fabrics.

 I washed with soap immediately, no color change, no breeding.  The same strong.

The dark prints are leaves direct on fabric while the pale from mirror prints,.  Both are bold.

 Even the overlapped prints are quite impressive

 The two pieces are silk

 

 This is the mirror print

 Just wrap for a look

 The other piece I made it into a blouse

 Simply two waist lines and waist tie for the easy styles

Two pieces of purple shades botanical imprints from Strobilantes

Strobilantes are magic plant for me.  I don't have much to make the indigo vat, I just take a few leaves to print, I'm lazy but content with the outcome.

A bag of pretty memory 九重葛的回憶

Purple, pink and black is the combination I love to do with wool felt. Today I finished this nuno felt bag. Just wanted to take some outside pictures. Coincidentally found the path lined with brushes of bougainvillea - this purple flowers are eye-catching. 一個剛完成的羊毛手袋帶給我多年前希臘之回憶. 九重葛(又名勒杜鵑花) 是島上襯托著小白屋最漂亮的花卉.
Now that we're into fall, leaves are not yet much turned to yellow or fallen instead this sort of flowers are blooming.


Flowers not only lined the path, also in the beach.
This is the bay I usually take pictures with my items. Dusk is romantic.
This pot of bougainvillea just reminded me my days in Greece years ago with hubby. Islands of Greece are mostly rough mountains but this kind of flowers are blooming. Always such a very pretty view with the white houses in Greece.





Our winter is short but quite chilly at times. Forecast we'll have a rather freezing time this year. So I'll make a few more wool felt bags with different style and textures. This one the strap is detachable.




Materials are merino wool, mulberry silk, Wensleydale fleece and my own dyed chiffon scraps for the flowers.









Love the color - outstanding with white. Thought this is good for casual as well for night.

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