Eco printing

lots of water..water, the house is smelling with a strange perfume of boiled flowers but i like the results.. from august experiment.

Lunch

Flower dyes, screen printing on vintage damask. Leek with fried eggs on oil.

Gray day dye

so love this picture, making of grey dye solution..

Natural dyes

Sun sensitive

Relatively easy process of letting the sun make the job and use lives to organize beautiful patterns

Upcycling: turning textile waste into sustainable fashion

In a recent live chat, a panel of sustainable fashion experts joined us to explore how upcycling is infiltrating the industry

"[It] doesn't matter if it is clothes or furniture or food. If we know the story behind it, the time it takes to make it, to produce the materials, we will value it much more. Everybody that has ever created something ... knows what I am talking about. It is about transparency.

How do we make it easier for consumers to choose upcycled clothes, or will it always be a niche market?

Just as we appreciate designers who source their wool from UK mills, weave on hand looms in Scotland and produce in London, the materials used in upcycled fashion have an interesting story. This is where the desirability of upcycled fashion lies, explains Robinson. In contrast, Orsola de Castro, co-founder and co-curator of Estethica describes fast fashion and mass produced luxury as "empty vehicles."

However, a story alone isn't enough - few will buy a garment simply because it's upcycled. They key factor is design says Luise Barsch, co-founder of the Berlin based label aluc: "If the design is good, people will go for it."

Tea and dryed flowers for winter

colour… it is winter, tea and dried flowers, winter tones

About natural dyes

Natural dyes are dyes or colorants derived from plants, invertebrates, or minerals. The majority of natural dyes are vegetable dyes from plant sources –roots, berries, bark, leaves, and wood—and other organic sources such as fungi and lichens.

Archaeologists have found evidence of textile dyeing dating back to the Neolithic period. In China, dyeing with plants, barks and insects has been traced back more than 5,000 years.[1] The essential process of dyeing changed little over time. Typically, the dye material is put in a pot of water and then the textiles to be dyed are added to the pot, which is heated and stirred until the color is transferred. Textile fibremay be dyed before spinning ("dyed in the wool"), but most textiles are "yarn-dyed" or "piece-dyed" after weaving. Many natural dyes require the use of chemicals called mordants to bind the dye to the textile fibres; tannin from oak galls, salt, natural alum, vinegar, andammonia from stale urine were used by early dyers. Many mordants, and some dyes themselves, produce strong odors, and large-scale dyeworks were often isolated in their own districts.

Wikipedia

Dyeing

There is here is something ..about this image of my dyeing pots in a moment of stillness. Irina was here visiting me in the country side as a first guest and she made this photo that somehow captures so well the nature of this place.

photo by irina anufrieva

Super Natural at Chestnut Mansion

I came to Östergötland in 2008 for the first time to get away from the city and the stress. So the dream was born to stay and work and be in an environment that promotes the natural and use of nature and plants..

Few months ago I saw pictures of Galleri Halvarby and the Chestnut Mansion and I fell in love! I moved here for the summer and autumn.. There was something mysterious about it when i've packed it up my boxes of old collected cloths, crocheted napkins and antique linen. here in Halvarby next to the old 18th century houses standing on the plot, they really feel at home.
From the start I choose to work only with what I found in the garden.. flowers, berries, weeds and rust they became pigments in the natural dye coloring for spotted napkins old shirts armors crocheted napkins and antique damask tablecloths became new mystical forms, forest inhabitants and wall dwellings..

Princess on the pee

Rust, blue berries, tea, avocado, elderberries dyes

Good night prayer

Gluing together past projects, the unfinished, unseen and unused that now is standing in the way, ever present, a ghost of too may things.. makes you think..i should use this.. or that.. i have that waiting to be finished..
I'll se where it will take me.

i did not do anything out of you / now i pray / it is good night prayer/ let me walk up free in the morning.  June 11 — i did not do anything out of you / now i pray / it is good night prayer/ let me walk up free in the morning. June 11

photo shoot

last week Ira visited Chestnut Mansion, it was lots of garden work and a photo shoot.. !

with irina anufrieva

textile formation, next one

particularly liking the amber-like colour and effect the natural dyes had on silk, dyed with dried St. John's wort that has left marks on the surface, my old- feeling -lovig isoul s content.

Out of the Blue

great effect easy to use, this dye is such a happy discovery. it is really a paint and is fixed by the sunlight. .. reused shirts.

Nature of textiles

I'd like my textiles to merge with the nature, nature is so much better on color, i think fabrics will live in the trees in summer... se where they go.

Super Natural..

..... a new collection i making, natural dyeing and eco printing etc...

Joanna Bodzek

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