HOW TO ECO-PRINT WITH A DYE BLANKET | ORGANIC COLOR | LEAVES TANNIN ALUM MORDANT | MADDER LOGWOOD

Leaves make for wonderful eco-prints on textile & paper to create beautiful natural designs in any season. Enhance your print with the help of a dye blanket (carrier blanket) to add a gorgeous background color and soft leaf outlines. Join me as I forage for fallen leaves in Washington, including the vibrant Japanese maple, to explore the interaction of tannin, alum and iron with dye blankets of madder and logwood. This tutorial will show you different mordants (tannin/alum/iron) to pretreat your textile, how to make a dye blanket and create a beautifully designed autumn leaf eco-print on both silk and cotton. You are sure to be inspired to step into the natural printmaking world.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction - Autumn leaves for dye blanket eco-printing
1:44 Japanese maples leaves for dyeing
2:53 Foraging vs buying dye matter
4:37 Mordants for target fiber - tannin, alum & iron
7:22 Dyes for carrier blanket - madder & logwood
9:06 How to make a dye blanket
10:27 Eco-print 1 - tannin target fiber
15:09 Eco-print 2 - alum target fiber
18:29 Eco-print 3 - iron target fiber
22:15 Eco-print results on silk & cotton
22:45 Wrap-up
24:35 Sneak peak of next video tutorial
25:13 Natural dyeing resources - free pdfs and paid digital course
26:16 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST
Leaves (tannin rich) - aspen, maple, birch, oak, eucalyptus, rose, etc.
Fiber for eco-print - silk & cotton shown in video
Cotton fiber for dye blanket
Tannin/alum/iron mordants
Gloves
Scale
Pot with lid
Steamer
Tongs
Spoon
Measuring cup
Measuring spoons
Bowl (for iron bath)
Scissors
String
Dowel
Plastic barrier - repurposed
Paper barrier - parchment paper shown in video

COOKIN' COLOR DIGITAL COURSE - Self-paced video workshop on the basics of natural dyeing and a step-by-step demonstration of an ombre dip-dye technique on textile: https://www.margaretbyrd.com/cookin-c...

DOWNLOAD FREE NATURAL DYER'S QUICK START GUIDE - 11 tips to a successful natural dye practice: https://margaretbyrd.ck.page/natural-...

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MORDANTS & DYE MATTER - Where to buy
https://botanicalcolors.com/

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Color Quest is a creative channel where we explore the wide world of natural color! If you love using organic materials in all of your arts & crafts projects, join me as I share tutorials and vlogs on how to find and create a rainbow of color from plants and the earth they live in.

I'm passionate about natural dyes and pigments which I use extensively in my art practice, so I'm thrilled to share my curiosity, excitement and knowledge of nature's palette with you.

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