Friday, 4 November 2011

pounding out beautiful prints!

This is the easiest transfer of all and you can take out your frustrations
while doing it!  All it took was a beautiful coloured oak leaf, a
piece of muslin and a hammer.  I laid the leaf on the fabric and
hammered the leaf until the colour transferred to the fabric.
Ironing on the wrong side will then heat set the print.  Wow...
so many possibilities with this process!



Hapa-zome is literally “leaf-dye” in Japanese, according to India Flint, 
author of Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles.

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