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INFECTIOUS COLOURS

4. BioChromes

Research & Inspiration

colour: sunsets. bright, happy and pink. materials: food i eat that i have waste for, lemons, citrus, onions,avocados. also foods i like to incorporate into my diet; matcha,

sunset 1 sunset 3 sunset 2

Tools

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

pink pom mushroom

Process and workflow

Gather ingredients

Ingredients Stuff

FABRIC PREP

cutting, soaking & spring rolling

Soaking

GATHERING

Went to the farm to frolice and collect ingredients for the dyes

Farm Gather Mush

BREWING

brewing ingredients to make neutral dye base

Pom Brew

REACTING

adding mordants to the neutral dyes

Reacting Dye test

DYING

died shorts and burnt them

Dying Shorts

DRYING

dried & ironed swatches

Drying Iron swatches

Ingredients & Recipes

Weight

Prepare this recipe [^1] by collecting the ingredients necessary, to be found in the list below:

ingredients
  • xxx gr cabbage and lemon
  • 0 gr alum
  • 10 gr fabric
  • 400 ml xxx
  • 2 gr baking soda

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

Recycling the dye into pigments

Was not a completed task

Ingredients & Recipes

N/A but you would 

* measure
* add
* simmer
* mix
* remove
* strain
* repeat

Was Hoping to Learn

Myclieum Movements