#hapazome

[hantothelizzy]

my finished hapazome piece! :)

[isabella-gliatta]

this is my hapazome. it’s pretty chaotic because i got rather carried away

[hqcreations]

Earlier this year I was playing around with #hapazome technique. Transferred the print of a #purple #pansy and other #wildflowers onto a #notecard.

[hqcreations]

I was hoping to sell these in Etsy, however…i don’t really have any way for the #pigment to stay vibrant; after a few months everything #fadesout into this depressing shade

[sadieedginton]

Wildflower Zine workshop for 5-12 yr olds

Last May 2025 at Spitalfields City Farm I created a workshop for families in the May half term holidays. Children could use lots of different techniques to make their own wildflower zine. We did Hapa zome (translating to "leaf dye" in Japanese, where you get a print from the natural pigments), Leaf printing with black ink, cyanotype, collage and using pens and real plants!

It worked well to create a space with lots of options where children could make their own mini booklets and collect their images and design it themselves!

[itskstorm23]

I found this research to be a lot of fun! It was definitely a very therapeutic explorative exercise. What I found interesting was smashing red flowers made them turn purple!! Natural dyes are something I’d like to invest more time in.

[ellanunnregeneration]

Subtraction cutting

to start off the subtraction cutting we sew three sides together and then overlocked their edges so they were secure, after doing that we placed down two templates for the neck line and the arm holes randomly on one side of the piece to create a unique piece, the way we placed them was in an parallel shape facing away from each other and once cutting it out it gave us a neckline that we and overlocked to keep it positioned as well as two different and unique arm holes, this caused the dress to be longer on one side so we decided to pin up and sew when we next come around to it so it wont be dragging on the floor and create new holes to create different looks to the piece. where we have decided to sew it, it will show off the hapazome and draw we did that we have proceeded to work into a lot more than usual.

[ellanunnregeneration]

Hapazome drape

After the hapazome and the drawing we moved onto draping the fabric all together over a mannequin, for the first drape we wanted to have a large big bunched up front which we managed to create and then for the back I worked on a wrapped round form fitting back. When going on to the next piece we tried doing a strapless piece with pleates and a zigzag back but unfortunately we didn’t like how it looked and gave up half way through the piece, after that one we moved onto a dropped neck with a low back with pleated sides which was extremely nice and form fitting for the mannequin from the front and back view of it all. For the last garment we did an over the shoulder look with another zigzag pattern at the back that  made the shoulder piece looker bigger than what it is. however with the front of the dress we made it really big and bunchy in different colours to give it a bubbly effect to the dress; throughout creating these drapes the patterns throughout the hapazome got moved about and the pattern would move and create different effects and such.