Botanical Printing on Fabric and Paper
Brief history and introduction to botanical printing
A course by Anabel Torres , Fashion Designer and Textile Artist
About the video: Brief history and introduction to botanical printing
Overview
“In this lesson I will give a brief historical tour of botanical printing and its artistic and scientific uses. I will explain the work of Alois Auer: a botanical printer, inventor and illustrator and the techniques he invented for naturalistic printing. Then I'll talk about India Flint who popularized the technique recently. ”
In this video lesson Anabel Torres addresses the topic: Brief history and introduction to botanical printing, which is part of the Domestika online course: Botanical Printing on Fabric and Paper. Learn how to transfer textures and colors to create patterns with flowers and plants.
Partial transcription of the video
“BRIEF HISTORY AND INTRODUCTION TO BOTANICAL PRINTING Now that you know a bit more about me, about my influences, and what we'll be doing in this course, in this lesson, I want us to talk about naturalistic printing, the precursor of botanical printing. Nature printing is a technique that consists on using natural materials, like leaves, for instance, to create a print. Though it's probably been around for much longer, its formal application began in the Middle Ages to help medicinal herbologists and in time, it became more of a scientific endeavor aiming to create herbaria and plant descrip...”
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Course summary for: Botanical Printing on Fabric and Paper
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fashion Design, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Textile Printing
Anabel Torres
A course by Anabel Torres
Anabel Torres has specialized in the dyeing of textiles using natural processes for over seven years, and through her brand Antesis, she designs and sells sustainably dyed items using natural pigments, as well as giving textile art workshops in Mexico City.
Her focus lies in studying and experimenting with colors that can be easily retrieved from the world around us—such as indigo, achiote, or cochineal—and is inspired by the textures that can be found in nature.
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