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Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles

The Natural Binder

A course by Anabel Torres , Fashion Designer and Textile Artist

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About the video: The Natural Binder

Overview

“In this lesson, I'll show you step by step how to make a traditional soy milk-based binder for textile printing. ”

In this video lesson Anabel Torres addresses the topic: The Natural Binder, 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

“The natural binder In this lesson I am going to tell you how to make a binder, a textile paint, based on soy milk. Here I already have my soy milk ready that I prepared with 20 g of soy beans soaked in 100 ml of water overnight. Then I filtered them I only took out the beans, I threw the water away, or you can use it to water plants, and put them in the blender along with another 500 ml of water. Then I blended it for 5 to 7 minutes until the beans were completely crushed. This must be filtered using a mesh, a muslin or a filter to obtain this milk. When the milk is fresh, you have just mad...”

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Course summary for: Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (123)
4859 students
4 units
13 lessons (1h 52m)
5 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Fine Arts, Painting, Textile Design, Textile Dyeing, Textile Printing

Anabel Torres

A course by Anabel Torres

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Fashion Designer and Textile Artist

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.