Tag Archives: Eco Printing

Brambly Personage and its Iron Blanket

Posted on April 10, 2019 by

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Brambly Personage

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Judas Basket, Magnetic Thinking, The Flowers of Evil and Eco-Dyeing with Wisteria

Posted on August 29, 2018 by

“I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle. ” ~Frederick Franck, The Zen of Seeing. I like … Continue reading →

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A First Try at Eco-Dyeing with Staghorn Sumac (Rhus Typhina)

Posted on August 26, 2018 by

I was delighted, when we first came in May last year to inspect what was to become our new home,  to find no less than four mature Staghorn Sumac trees flourishing in the garden, for I knew Sumac to be … Continue reading →

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Taking a Walk with Pussy Willow An-Dro into the (Negative) Space of Possibility

Posted on March 18, 2018 by

Like the other eco prints on watercolour paper in  the  batch made the other week, this is a pair of mirror image prints. Quite by chance (if you believe in coincidence – I don’t) there’s an inner circle of imprints … Continue reading →

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Another Eco Print on Silk – Three Eucalyptus Leaves

Posted on January 31, 2018 by

I know, looks like six leaves, not three, but it’s a mirror image print. On the left of the middle fold are prints of the fronts of the leaves, on the right, the backs. I think it’s the tannin – … Continue reading →

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Eco Collograph from Red Cabbage

Posted on November 1, 2017 by

The health-giving properties of red cabbage are phenomenal. I love it steamed with apple. Great taste, good health. Virtually no calories. Turns blue when provoked. Me, too.            

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Oak Flowers on Silk – an Epitaph

Posted on April 21, 2017 by

There may not be another Spring in this park, so here is a bouquet in tribute, of flowers of oak, on silk. Continue reading →

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Posted on February 10, 2017 by

At the same time I made the eco prints on watercolour postcards at the end of January, I did some eco print experiments on raw silk bought in the silk market – Koza Han – in Bursa, Northern Turkey. Koza … Continue reading →

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Kathy Hays’ Eco Print Video Workshop and Experimenting on Raw Silk from Koza Han

Posted on February 9, 2017 by

I keep writing about Kathy Hays’ video eco print workshop in my recent experiments with eco printing and natural dyeing, so I thought I’d post a You Tube video taster of the workshop. In my next blog I’m going to … Continue reading →

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