INFECTIOUS COLOURS¶

4. BioChromes¶

Research & Inspiration¶

Colour: sunsets. bright, happy and pink.

Materials used for the dyes came from food scraps from my cooking waste like lemons, pomegranate skins, onions,avocados and herbs. As well as some common staples found in my pantry like matcha, spirulina and tumeric. sunset 1 sunset 3 sunset 2

Tools¶

pots
glass basin
hot plate
wooden forks
bowls
coffee filters
strainer
jars

pink pom mushroom

PROCESS & WORKFLOW¶

Gather ingredients. Stuff

FABRIC PREP¶

Cut, soaked & spring rolled the organic fibers. Soaking

GATHERING¶

Went to the farm to frolice and collect ingredients for the dyes like pomegranate skins, rosemary and mushrooms. Farm Gather Mush

BREWING¶

Brewing ingredients to make a neutral dye base. Pom Brew

REACTING¶

Adding mordants to the neutral dyes. Reacting Dye test

DYING¶

Died shorts and burnt them oops. Dying Shorts

DRYING¶

Hung the swatched to dry & ironed them flat. Drying Iron swatches

Ingredients & Recipes¶

Weight

Prepare this recipe by collecting the ingredients necessary from the farm or your leftover food scraps.

HOT PINK¶

cabbage and lemon dye

* measure g of cabbage and lemon, measure baking soda & water 
* add 2g baking soda 
* simmer 
* mix mix mix 
* remove cabbage and lemons from pot 
* strain through coffee filter 
* repeat

Documenting experiments¶

Board

example from the documentation in the BioLab FabTextiles Barcelona 2024

RESULTS¶

FINAL SWATCHES

Result Result2

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