Experimentelle Pflanzendrucke auf Stoff und Papier

As every year, Esther Grischott from Pignia heats up the big dirty pot - an old washtub - with fire for the Ecoprint workshop. During the waiting times, we experiment with other techniques, such as Cyanotype, Hapa Zome and Flower Bundle Dye. Ecoprint (also known as plant printing or contact dyeing) is an environmentally friendly process in which natural dyes from leaves, flowers and other parts of plants are transferred directly to fabrics (natural fibres such as silk, wool) or paper by steam or heat. Cyanotype (Greek for "blue print"), also known as solar pressure, is a simple photographic process that works with the light of the sun or UV light. The old photographic printing process produces images in bluish hues. Hapa Zome (Japanese for "leaf coloring") is a creative technique in which flowers and leaves are transferred to fabric or paper by hammering to print natural pigments directly into the material. Flower Bundle Dye is a natural dyeing technique in which flowers, leaves and plant parts are placed directly on fabric, tightly rolled up (bundled) and then steamed. Heat and moisture transfer the pigments of the plants to the textile.

Workshop facilitators: Esther Grischott (Eco Print), Chloé Felix (Cynotype), Liat from Poise Studios (Flower Bundle Dye), Stini Arn (Hapa Zome).

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