Class 4 : BIO DYES & BIOFABRICS

LEATHER FRUIT

Technics

  • dewatering

Material

  • 6 khaki fruits

Tools

  • knife
  • blender
  • parchment paper
  • cooking hob
  • Hoven

Assignment Project Description

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. They can choose to: Produce at least one natural dye, modifying it’s colour and mordanting it in different ways to dye at least 2 different categories of fibers. Explore dyeing with bacteria of different fibers and bacteria.

Make a piece of khaki fruit leather

Inspirations & References

they're often at my grocery store. I find the color warm and the fruit has a lot of flesh. khaki



1/Mix the fruit in the blender (cut the fruit into pieces)

2/Make sure that the mixture is homogeneous

Here the khaki gives an epai mixture and easy to spread

3/Spread the coulis on a baking sheet spread in the oven plate
4/leave leather at 50 degrees for 10 hours

The mixture dries out little by little and ends up looking like leather

5/There is a darker spot that corresponds to a thicker part of the leaf at a certain point



Improvements and Challenges

The result is a little too thick and needs to be much finer.


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