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Redemption Dress - an eco-printed project
The last months (and months to come) I am working on a project that contains a series of up cycled wedding dresses. This is the first one; Redemption Dress The work that has forced me to have a long, hard look at myself. Who am I, in my core. What’s me and what do I chalk up to life experience? In what way do I let previous traumas deprive me of joy in the now? The redemption dress; A vintage, silk dress that I completely stripped of all the embellishments, the beads, the bow
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Salts, soda's and everything in-between
A post about all the different salts available, because I really got confused. In eco printing and natural dyeing we use different salts to achieve ph adjustments, or to scour fabrics and to even out dye. I do not know about you, but I got completely confused between the different kinds when they are mentioned under different names. I ended up with a huge amount of washing soda, because I didn’t know ‘soda’ , 'washing soda' and ‘soda ash’ were the same thing! So I made a litt
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Natural Dyes Internship in France
The color red. France, June 2018 It started with; I want to know how to create red, true red from madder. My many experiments had not resulted into anything I could steadily repeat. I have been successful in learning things through sheer stubbornness but sometimes you have to admit defeat. This lead me to David Santandreu, hard to find on the internet (he is, smartly, avoiding Facebook and mostsocial media) but he came highly recommended. He has an official degree in natural
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