Assignment | 17 oktober 2017

Explore (at least):

• 1 natural dye or bacterial dye
• 1 crafted or grown material
• Order, display, map & credit the process and results.

ref.: http://fabricademy.fabcloud.io/handbook/classes/03_biofabrics.html

Color dye - What is a mordant

• Mordant and fixtives
• Mordant (wiki)
• natural dye that does not need a mordant

Natural dye video short

• Natural dye demo (video1)
• Natural dye demo (video2)
• Natural dyeing process explained

Article

• workshop example Seaweed used as color dye
• 2015 article Dutch Design Week - Seaweed as sustainable textile dye
• 2014 article DMY Berlin 2014 - Algae to create colorful dyes for textile printing

I wanted to try something with a local product and since I live 1 street down from the coast, gathering seaweed was not a too hard task. :)