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Week 4: Bio Dyes and BioFabrics

Assignment

The students can work in group, identifying tasks and splitting them, as long as they all proof they are able to carry out each task.

Explore at least:

•1 natural dye or bacterial dye

•1 crafted or grown material

My work

As Cecilia Raspanti explained in past class, this class will focus on exploring new materials and different dyeing thecnics from the traditional ones. We will start with natural dyes with extracts from vegetals, roots…we didn't do bacterial dyes as we don't have a biolab, but we biofabricate materials.

So, the process that our FabLab followed was;

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I love these recipients of pigments, love the colorful look. So, we decided to make some similar with the natural dyes

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For preparing the textile coupons we treated a piece of cotton fabric with 50 grs of alum into warm water during at least 1 hour. After this time we let the fabric dry, and Ana lasercutted the square models

onion leaves turn a beautiful orange color

the onion leaves turn a beautiful orange color

We made teas with all of them.

hibiscus flowers give a spectacular fuchsia color

The tests we did were:

Afterwards, we altered the pH of the infusions with bicarbonate and checked the changes that in some cases were surprising.

Last, we added vinegar in order to see changes and check the different shades.

Kombucha

One of our fabfriend, Veronica, gave us a piece of kombucha (and a delicious tea with it ;)

She explained us how to grow the kombucha, with black tea, sugar and no metal materials to handle the kombucha.

Sep 21, 2017

After one month (oct, 19th), we decided to get the scobby out of the box and let it dry about 1 week

And, on October, 23th, it looked like these pictures