#natural materials

[woundgallery]

Anselm Kiefer, Morgenthau, 2015

[thesilicontribesman]

Iron Age Roundhouse Interiors, Butser Ancient Farm, Waterlooville, Hampshire

[harvestheart]

Agnes Herczeg - macrame painting

Artist:

Born in the town of Kecskemét, Agnes Herczeg is a talented Hungarian textile artist. She graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1997. While studying, she has learned many traditional handicraft techniques, from embroidery and lace-making to macramé, and weaving.

Creating her works, Agnes uses only with natural materials – tree branches, roots, fruits, seeds, yarns, threads, textiles, which supplement in a single composition.

[killyridols]

hanging garden by noah schneiderman, 2023, oil on sewn canvas, naturally dyed with cutch + iron + indigo + marigolds + madder root & chlorophyllin, 46 x 36 inches

[briery]

Castelul de Lut, Valea Zânelor, Transylvania, Romania.

[pheere]

How to Wrap Five Eggs: Traditional Japanese Packaging By Hideyuki Oka

“To suit the needs of super mass production, the traditional natural materials are too obstreperous...and one by one we have replaced them with the docile, predicable synthetics...What we have gained from these [new] materials and wonderfully complicated processes to make up for the general pollution, rush, crowding, noise, sickness, and slickness is a subject for other forums. But what we have lost for sure is what this book is all about: a once-common sense of fitness in the relationships between hand, material, use, and shape, and above all, a sense of delight in the look and feel of very ordinary, humble things...a totally unexpected monument to a culture, a way of life, a universal sensibility carried through all objects down to the smallest, most inconsequential, and ephemeral things.” - George Nelson

[rumade]

From a book on herbs I've got. Herb garland

[dress-this-way]

New Rattan & Raffia - Julia Berolzheimer

[bumblebeeappletree]

#ecoprint #naturaldye #bundlesecoprint

The Secret of Ecoprint Technique (Full Tutorial) Part 1 • The Secret Recipe of E...

The Secret of Ecoprint Technique (Full Tutorial) Part 2 • The Secret of Ecoprint...

So hi, im roman, FINALLY todays video id like to show you the secret recipe how i made ecoprint on fabric, how i create a beautifull print on it, a secret why and how the leave or the flower leave their shape beautifully, this is base on my exploration, maybe the weather, ph level of water and so many factor will affect the result, but you can try this recipe.

This video is maybe long, but i dont want to cut the video so i will show you every step of the process of the textile making.

Step by step :

1. Choose the best fabric/materials

2. Clean the fabric (Scouring), i have 2 ways to clean deeply the fabric (2 method)

3. Preparing the fabric (Mordanting), 2 step to make your fabric is ready to dye.

4. Selection of the plants.

5. Bundles and Steam Technique.

6. I love you.

1. Fabric / Materials

The first is the most important before you making natural dyes, selection of fabric or material, because we work on natural dyes, natural things, so make sure the fabric that u ll be use is from nature also, like linen, cotton, or maybe silk.

2. Scouring

The second, is to scoured the fabric, what is scouring means? Scouring refers to thoroughly washing or deep cleaning the fabric, to remove residue or residual chemicals on the cloth from the factory when fabric making.

This is one factor of success in achieving strong color on natural dyes, is to start with completely clean fabric. Does this mean fabric washed in washing machine? No! We think the washer gets our clothes totally clean but it honestly does not. That is why, to get a good even coverage with your dyes, it is very important that you deep clean your cellulose fabric such as cotton, linen, bamboo, or maybe silk.

For me, this is my method, i have 2 ways to scour the fabric, the first is boil the fabric on hot water with some soda ash about 20 minutes, or if you dont have a soda ash you can use any detergent, but i recomend a soda ash and TRO (Turkish Red Oil). Boil for 20 minutes and ready for the next step, but if you patient enoght i have another tips, another methos, that is leave your fabric on soda ash mix with water for about a night or a couple night, until the fabric is clean and dry it.

3. Mordant

The 3rd step, next for this step is to mordant the fabric, what is mordant means? Mordant is like to prepare your fabric for natural dyes, mordanting process make your fabric good enought to sticking the tanin (the substance in plants that produces color/natural dyes) from leaves and flower. More rich the tannins on a plant, more strong the color will be.

There is 2 step of mordanting the fabric,

Mordant First step, recipe (you can re-adjust composition) :

Aluminium Sulfate (Tawas)

Iron Sulfate (Tunjung)

Baking Soda

Vinegar

Mix all the ingredients with water

Dry the fabric.

Note : be careful with fragile fabric like silk, dont add too much recipe

Mordant Second step, recipe :

Calcium Carbonate (lime betle/kapur sirih)

Mix with water

Ready to print or you can dry it and keep for print when you need. (Make sure make it wet again the fabric before you print)

For the precise composition please follow and dm me on instagram / roman.muhtar ✨

4. Selection of Plant

More rich the tannin on a plant, more strong the color will be.

What i choose :

Hibiscus flower (Bunga sepatu)

Bidens pilosa (Dom dom an/babadotan)

Acalypha (Daun Ekor Kucing)

Vernonia (Daun Afrika)

And many more you can explore

5. Bundles Ecoprint

Here‘s tutorial • Bundle Ecoprint Tutori...

6. Thanks for watching, i love you!!!

Lets be friend

Lets be friend

/ roman.muhtar

/ romannuansa

my work https://msha.ke/boolao

[mankoen]

fibres, mankoen 2023

[woundgallery]

Camille Henrot

Collection Préhistorique (Femme allongée et dents de requin), 2009

Photographie couleur (tirage Fine Art, impression jet d’encre) Image : 30 x 40 cm (11.81 x 15.75 in)

[thesilicontribesman]

Reconstructed Iron Age Roundhouse, Corinium Museum, Cirencester

[lowwasteorbustanut]

I did it!!

My very first shirt I ever made!! And it looks great!!

100% cotton (flannel), so of course it’s natural materials.

It was born from the dress I unpicked the other day. Of course I had to shorten it, but it came out amazing 💖

And I had to learn how to finish a T-shirt neck lol Don’t look too closely at my left shoulder, the binding got a bit twisted. But you can’t really tell, and I didn’t care enough to do the entire thing over again.

I’ll take better pics of the shirt on my mannequin tomorrow. It’s too late now.

[briery]

Castelul de Lut, Valea Zânelor (Clay Castle, Valley of the Fairies), Transylvania, Romania.

[emmaklee]

Mariko Sumioka brooch

[haveaseathuman]