Biomaterials: Creating Materials Using Organic Waste
Colors
A course by Loana Flores , Textile Artist
About the video: Colors
Overview
“Finally, I will show you a natural dye and a pigment to give color to the biomaterial. I will also explain how to develop it.”
In this video lesson Loana Flores addresses the topic: Colors, which is part of the Domestika online course: Biomaterials: Creating Materials Using Organic Waste. Discover how to master the process of creating biomaterials and give new life to organic waste..
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson I am going to tell you how to incorporate color into your biomaterials. It is important that you think about color from the beginning. Since most biomaterials carry water, what we are going to do is replace the water with dye. I generally use two ways to color. One is pigments and the other is dyes. Now I am going to show you the pigments that I use. This pigment is from annatto seeds, gives an orange color. This other pigment is from beets and gives a purple color. The third is onion skins and it gives this color a little brown, tan. And the latter is made from yerba mate, w...”
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Course summary for: Biomaterials: Creating Materials Using Organic Waste
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Loana Flores
A course by Loana Flores
Loana Flores is a renowned textile designer and artist specialized in research with organic and discarded materials. Her passion for sustainability and her commitment to the environment have led her to question the practices of the fashion industry and explore new languages of artistic expression.
Loana is a professor at ESDI and is part of the Aru research group, as well as various research groups in new materials and technologies applied to textiles. Her experience as a teacher and her training in sustainability have prompted her to reflect on industry practices, both in terms of materials and processes and in relation to the human factor.
With extensive experience in experimenting with different materials, both textiles and other non-conventional materials, Loana seeks to find possibilities in what has not been explored. Her training as a designer has given her a deep knowledge of the production processes in garment development, while her study of textile art and artisanal techniques has allowed her to experiment and push limits to obtain unique results.
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