Eco-dyeing and printing

Eco-dyeing and printing

Make your own colour, from nature

Dye with kitchen scraps, print with leaves and rust, mix Procion dyes, and catch the sun in a cyanotype.

Deep blue cyanotype of eucalyptus leaves on a pianola roll

What you will explore

Dyeing, printing, and sun-prints

Four ways to turn plain cloth and paper into colour that is all your own.

Ways to colour

From the kitchen to the sun

Natural kitchen dyeing

Onion skins, avocado pits, and everyday kitchen scraps become soft, natural colour on fabric.

Eco-printing and rust-dyeing

Press real leaves and rusty metal onto fabric and paper to print their marks and shapes.

Procion MX dyes

Mix bright, lasting colour and blend your own gradations. This is the colour behind fabric2dye4.

Cyanotype art

Sun-print mystical Prussian blue images on fabric and paper, using plants and light.

Hand dyed fabric in a gradation from teal to magenta

Gallery

Colour from the dye pot and the sun

Cyanotype eucalypt on a pianola roll
Cyanotype eucalypt on a pianola roll
Cyanotype kangaroo grass
Cyanotype kangaroo grass
Rust print and cyanotype weeds
Rust print and cyanotype weeds
Wet cyanotype, misty morning frond
Wet cyanotype, misty morning frond
Procion dyed green to gold
Procion dyed green to gold
Procion dyed teal to magenta
Procion dyed teal to magenta
It is all about colour
It is all about colour
Thread painted nasturtiums
Thread painted nasturtiums
Rust print and cyanotype collage
Rust print and cyanotype collage

Ready to play with colour?

The classes show you each method, from the first dip to the finished print.

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