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Textile Project, UNSW, COFA, 2013
Textile Project, UNSW, COFA, 2013
Natural Dye
For the completion of this project, I dyed some more fabric to be used. I experiment with the red pigment from strawberry but the result seem to be not satisfied so I decided to dyed most of the fabric to yellow color from turmeric because I want to stick to the idea of sun light (yellow) as a background for all my artworks.
Fabric Type: Cotton Size: Approximately A4 size Technique use: Tie and Natural Dye (with 4 rubber bands). Left in bath for approximately 12 hours. Stencil printing. (One Stencil print) Block printing. (Two printing blocks)
Printing paste: Permaset Textile Print Medium: Turmeric (Natural Dye Medium) Mordant: Cream of Tartar and Iodized salt (Natural Dye Mordant) Color mixture: Brown (Yellow, Red, Black) Screen Layer: First: Dried dandelion body template with brown paint Second: Block printing of dandelion abstract with white paint Last: Block printing of dandelion abstract (smaller size) with yellow paint Artwork description: Blown away carried out the concept of a nice beautiful scene of dandelion filed. This piece of artwork capture the part when dandelion is blown away from the filed by the wind.
Size: Approximately A4 size Technique use: Natural Dye (Left in bath for approximately 12 hours. Stencil printing. (Three Stencil print)
Printing paste: Permaset Textile Print Medium: Turmeric (Natural Dye Medium) Mordant: Cream of Tartar and Iodized salt (Natural Dye Mordant) Color mixture: Brown (Yellow, Red, Black), Orange (Yellow and Red) Screen Layer: First: Stencil print of Ground template with brown paint (light and darker) Second: Stencil print of Sunray template with orange paint. Last: Stencil print of leaf template with yellow paint. Artwork description: The section is the abstraction of the filed that I visualized. I had the idea of seeing the whole filed was cut into section and the result is to see each section of ground, leaf and sunray.
Size: Approximately A4 size Technique use: Natural Dye (with 5 rubber bands). Left in bath for approximately 12 hours. Stencil printing. (One Stencil print) Block printing. (One printing block)
Printing paste: Permaset Textile Print Medium: Turmeric (Natural Dye Medium) Mordant: Cream of Tartar and Iodized salt (Natural Dye Mordant) Color mixture: Brown (Yellow, Red, Black) Screen Layer: First: Dried grass filed template with brown paint. Second: Dried grass filed template with yellow paint. Last: Block printing of dandelion abstract with white paint. Artwork description: The filed represents the whole dandelion filed of my imagination. It has the background of yellow to demonstrate sunlight, different color of dried grass demonstrated the combination of different grass in the filed and the time at which dried out at different period of time but still stay in the same filed to create such a beautiful scene.
Number 4: Dandelion
Size: Approximately A4 size Technique use: Natural Dye (Left in bath for approximately 12 hours. Stencil printing. (One Stencil print) Block printing. (Two printing blocks)
Printing paste: Permaset Textile Print Medium: Tea bags and coffee beans (Natural Dye Medium) Mordant: Cream of Tartar and Iodized salt (Natural Dye Mordant) Color mixture: Brown (Yellow, Red, Black) Screen Layer: First: Dried dandelion body template with dark brown paint Second: Dried dandelion body template with brown paint Third: Block printing of dandelion abstract (smaller size) with white paint Last: Block printing of dandelion abstract with yellow paint Artwork description: Dandelion shows the basic concept of dandelion filed, the combination of the dried dandelion body and its pedals blowing away from the filed.