#flower pounding

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What I've currently been working on while not making more doll clothes: natural dyed and eco printed fabric. The dye is earth pigment (fancy mud) mixed with fresh soy milk!

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How to flower pound with fresh flowers, tataki zome, hapa zome.

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But please don't hold me to it

[chickadeegreen]

pounding virginia creeper into fabric 💫

[secretgardenlab]

pounding imprints of flowers onto a chemise, which was sewn inspired by an 18th century pattern. the white cotton fabric was first scoured with soda ash and then soaked in alum as a mordant. the flower bouquet is made up up of flowers and leaves fallen on the side of the road, my mother's balcony garden, and flowers used by our neighbour for pooja.

i wanted to create a dress for spring. in my head - i was imagining all the fairy tales i'd read and their magical costumes. i wanted to create a dress that a spring fairy might wear.

there weren't many resources for flower pounding that i could find beyond other articles with people experimenting, and i played it by the ear. i started out with roses that i thought would give a deep red, but instead turned purple! it was almost like working with an entirely different medium. by pounding a juicier (watery) flower or leaf without much pigment of its own, and then pounding a thinner pigmented petal on top of it - the colour would spread like a wet wash of water colour. some pigments were more washed out, others more concentrated, others didn't imprint at all!

i had success with layering succulents (very light green wash) under the leaves of the diffenbachia and jade plant. i got yellows and oranges from marigolds and the yellow trumpet, various hues of purple from the red and purple flowers - roses, royal poinciana, jacaranda, and pinks from begonia flowers, pride of india, and java cassia. i wasn't very successful at having the flowers stay in one place while pounding them (i tried! by taping them) but did get some nice effects by having them smoosh around with each other. i would cut up some petals and place them in certain ways to create more figurative shapes.

the greens came from house plants, weeds off the sidewalk, both succulents and leaves. the succulents would give off a very light green wash and leaves from the pothos plant would leave a darker, more defined impression depending on how i used the hammer.

i would keep the flowers i'd collected in the freezer after i was done for the day to preserve them.

the first night of pounding was met with a resounding (NO) from the neighbours so i had to devise a way to keep the sound to a minimum. i would place a cuttingboard on a towel and hold my hand closer to the top. i definitely gained some arm muscle while doing this for 3-4 days.

the dress in its current state:

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girl help i have hayfever 

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Join me on a foraging trip to the beautiful Dutch island of Ameland in the North Sea to search for color from wild & garden flowers. Summer blooms make for wonderful eco-prints on textile using a simple hammering technique to create beautiful natural designs. This tutorial will suggest flowers to forage for eco-printing and how to coax natural color from their petals. You will see my results on silk & linen gift bags for inspiration to step into the natural printmaking world.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Introduction - Flower eco-printing

2:11 Off to The Netherlands

3:06 Which flowers to collect for eco-printing

4:39 Supply list

6:34 Eco-print 1 - Silk gift bag

18:55 Eco-print 2 - Linen gift bag

25:34 Textile prep tips

26:53 Flower eco-print results

27:04 Wrap-up

28:19 Sneak peak of next video tutorial

28:49 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Flowers - geranium, poppy, phlox, sunflower, calendula, safflower, nasturtium, rose, etc.

Herbs - thyme, sage, oregano, etc.

Textile - silk & linen gift bags

Hammer

Cutting board

Spare fiber for barrier

Pruning scissors

Basket to collect flowers

[chickadeegreen]

pounded some pansies into my fave jumpsuit ✨