I had a week of holiday recently and one day decided to go out for a short walk. Maybe to drop of plastic trash, maybe to post a letter, I can’t really remember. While out, I noticed all the green around, leaves are really returning to the trees and plants. So while walking along, I picked some leaves here and there. I came home with a hand full of greenery and a desire to do some ecoprinting. So I got all of my stuff from the dyeing cupboard, mixed up some additional iron water and got to work. The layout is fairly random with one scarf being less densely printed than the other. All leaves were placed with the top side up, which obviously gives a different effect on the mirrored bottom-up side.
Ecoprinting is still super interesting to me. I should probably take more extensive notes on what I’m doing because I can’t really predict what the outcome will be, but that has its charms too. You can see that most of the well printing leaves on the right scarf are at the top and then one in the middle. The left one is more uniform in what printed dark and what printed light. I like these results. Unfortunately, the source of my previous batches of silk no longer lists it on its website, so I’m going to have a more expensive time getting hold of something to print new projects on. Que sera sera.
