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

Leaves make for wonderful ecoprints 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 ecoprint 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 ecoprinting 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 Ecopri