Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles
Lacquer Pigments
A course by Anabel Torres , Fashion Designer and Textile Artist
About the video: Lacquer Pigments
Overview
“Now I will continue to delve into lacquer pigments, their historical importance, their variants and main characteristics. ”
In this video lesson Anabel Torres addresses the topic: Lacquer Pigments , which is part of the Domestika online course: Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles. Learn to extract color directly from nature and make organic powder dyes to paint textiles and much more.
Partial transcription of the video
“lacquer pigments Lacquer is the term for any pigment made from colorless inorganic compounds with translucent tints, which allows the dyes to be used for painting. In general, lacquer pigments are obtained by precipitating a dye into a colorless, relatively inert and insoluble substance, as potassium alum in conjunction with calcium carbonate or sodium carbonate. There are very old recipe records, including some in which scraps of fabric dyed with natural dyes were used or bleach. For this course we will use safe recipes and free of toxins. The use of these pigments is very old. For referen...”
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Course summary for: Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles
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Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fine Arts, Painting, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Textile Printing
Anabel Torres
A course by Anabel Torres
Anabel Torres has been a specialist in natural textile dyes for the past seven years and, through her brand Antesis, she designs and sells sustainable items decorated with stunning organic colors, as well as offering textile art workshops across Mexico City.
Her focus is on studying and experimenting with colors that can be easily obtained from the world around us—such as indigo, annatto, and cochineal—and she draws inspiration from the textures found in nature.
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