#indiaflint

[kaylagardiner1]

India Flint

India Flint is an artist and writer whose works are represented in collections and museums in Germany, Latvia and Australia. She lives on a farm in rural South Australia, researching plant dyes, making artworks and planting trees.

*the ecoprint is an ecologically sustainable botanical contact print that transfers leaf dyes to cloth, clay, wood, stone or paper ; now widely adopted by makers in almost every country.

[veronicaaldous]

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The wind blowing hand dyed permanently leaf printed silk satin. I also hand dye and manipulate textiles. This is a lost garden. I picked summer leaves from my beautiful garden I had to leave behind. I took the leaves and processed their ghosts into the silk using water, heat, rusty iron and oak galls. The result is seen here. #veronicaaldousarts #artist #ecoprinting #ecoprint #indiaflint #textilearts #magic #plantdyes #memento #artist #finearttexiles https://www.instagram.com/p/CAw68wFnKhF/?igshid=itzpviitpwpi

[thewoollydog]

prophet of bloom

[hollylouisebooker]

Botanical Dyeing // Context

Artist research on India Flint and Alice Fox, both use natural sources of colour in their work.

[hollylouisebooker]

Botanical Dyeing // Experimentation

Hapa-Zome experiments on cotton for final piece

Dye Swatch experiments using Kiwi, Spinach, Turmeric, Beetroot, Purple Cabbage, Red Onion and White Onion

[hollylouisebooker]

Botanical Dyeing Project // Final Piece

The two far left pieces were made using the Shibori folding/wrapping method and my homemade red and white onion dye. The next two and the far right piece were made by eco-dyeing; layering seasonal leaves, berries and flowersl from around my neighbourhood onto the fabric, rolling up, and then steaming for several hours to release the colour. The first was made with heather, red leaves, purple flowers and bamboo leaves, the second with red and white onion skins, and the last with yellow and blue berries. The second from right piece was made using the Hapa-Zome technique of hammering plant material directly into the cloth to create a print. 

I’d really like to use these methods again in an installation based piece. I think it would be interesting to try and capture a geographic location using these methods with the use of embellishment, like artist Alice Fox. If I had had more time on this project I would have explored slower methods like solar-dyeing and composting over several months, to explore the passing of time and the effects of the elements on the textile and create a narrative of it.

[thewoollydog]

India Flint

[gojg]

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