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Natural Lake Pigments for Textiles

Other Uses

A course by Anabel Torres , Fashion Designer and Textile Artist

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About the video: Other Uses

Overview

“To end this unit, I will show you other possibilities and variants in which you can use the pigments you created. ”

In this video lesson Anabel Torres addresses the topic: Other Uses, 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

“Other uses As we have seen in previous lessons, lacquer pigments have been used in other media. Here are some of your possibilities. These paintings that I have here are tempera type, I tried to imitate the texture of an acrylic painting but using only natural materials such as honey, gum arabic and cloves. This, for example, is cochineal grana. This, for example, It is made of cempasuchil lacquer pigment with Mayan blue. Watercolors can also be prepared. This is made of Campeche wood. This is cempasuchil. Crayons can also be made. this is indigo and this cempasuchil with indigo. Chalks, ch...”

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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.