All silks here: the first is raw silk, on the right is habati silk. I like how these came out. The leaves that soaked in rusty water are the strongest. Others were all soaked in various concoctions. I have going pans of chalk with seawater, plain seawater, vinegar water, rusty iron water, copper water that […]
Category: Dyeing
Eco-Printing – The Process
Eco-Printing really is quite a process. After all, there’s not a lot of difference, in terms of process, from how we do it today from how we did it a hundred years ago. The materials we use are different; for instance, we purchase our aluminum or sulfate or soda ash in a plastic bag or […]
More Eco Prints
Just in the nick of time, as my working outdoors season comes to an end, I’m finally making some real progress in the eco-printing process. These are all cotton, as is most of what I’ve printed. This is one of my most recent batches and one for which I used a newly devised system for tracking the […]