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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 & WORKFLOW

Gather ingredients. 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. 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, 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

@bishgosh these natural dye samples are totally poppin like this 🫶🥑🧅🌸🍋🍀🍒🫘🥭🌿🍄✨#biotextiles #biodesign #natura #naturaldyes #fashiondesigner #bio ♬ Pop like this Pt. 2 (Sped Up) - prodbycpkshawn


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