Printing with natural dyes like madder, indigo, acorn, coreopsis and weld – a short report on some of my work.
Here you can see some pictures from the preparations. From top left to right: acorn dye bath, indigo paste preparation, madder paste preparation and the last image shows the madder dye bath.
When I visited Visby during 2022 autumn I fell in love with one of the patterns I´ve seen. Funnily it´s a lining fabric. The coat is at the archive of Gotlands Museum.
https://digitaltmuseum.se/0210213399822/kofta-jacka
On the pictures from top left: indigo print developing, the pattern reconstructed and inverted, the pattern inlarged printed with my own indigo. Secound row from left: printed with acorns, printed with madder and acorn, printed with madder. The bottom picture shows the print with madder before and after the fixing process.
I´ve been working with multicoloured prints.
On the first image you can see the first layer being printed.
The oranges and reds are from madder, the blues are from different concentration of indigo, the bright yellow from weld and the browns and black from acorns.
The kimono pattern is a re-work of a block printed pattern from around 18th century Japan.
I like to experiment not just with methods and techniques, but with patterns.
Blockprint with indigo, one of my patterns called Sandhammaren:
