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Hello. My name's Liz Plummer and I'm a artist working mostly with fabric. I love dyeing, printing, painting and stitching.
This blog is about the influences on my work, inspiration, my daily life,
and the processes of creating. Enjoy!My Website
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Email me at liz @ lizplummer . com
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Category Archives: natural dyes
Fascinating description of natural dyeing in Pakistan
I regularly read Jenny Dean’s blog, Wild Colour, and her latest post is extremely interesting. She has some intricately hand printed ajrakh fabric from Pakistan and describes how it is accomplished using wood blocks, indigo, madder and various mordants. Amazing….
More dyed fabric … and a jacket!
I have been slowly washing out more of the fabric. In between buying some gorgeous teal coloured boiled wool/viscose fabric and making it into a jacket! More later on that… I printed this piece of silk with corrugated cardboard (the … Continue reading
Posted in natural dyes, Sewing
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Natural dyeing – the results!
Here we are … some of the fabrics I printed last year and just washed out. I’m rinsing out about three pieces a day so even this is taking time! I printed this one with a gocco screen. It started … Continue reading
Posted in natural dyes, printing
Tagged clearwell caves, Gocco, natural dyes, ochres, tree
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Yummy, luscious compost dyed fabric!
Unless you’re a gardening afficionado, the words ‘yummy’ and ‘luscious’ don’t really appear together with the word ‘compost’ but wait till you see this fabric I just rinsed!! A couple of years ago I bought the DVD Markmaking with Nature … Continue reading
Posted in Dyeing, natural dyes
Tagged cochineal, compost dyeing, logwood, madder, natural dyes, silk
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Screenprinting with Natural Dyes
When I had my great fabric decorating spree in January, some of my favourite pieces are those I screenprinted with Gocco screens. I used natural dye extracts mixed with gum tragacanth as a print paste/binder. Continuing the series on mud … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, creativity, Gocco, natural dyes, printing
Tagged BBEST, bird prints, bricks, Etsy, gum tragacanth, natural dyes, print gocco, screenprinting, tree, wall
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Painting with ochres and soy milk
A few months ago I bought some natural ochres from Clearwell Caves, some old coppermines in the Forest of Dean. I also had some natural dye extracts, so I decided to do some painting with them, using soy milk as … Continue reading
Posted in natural dyes, Painting
Tagged bricks, fabric, natural dyes, ochres, Painting, textures, tree, wall
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