I just love the color
"Indigo blue". The piece below is a
cyanotype print - Durer's Adam and Eve - on extremely thin mulberry stitched into a frame of dirt paper ! (paper formulated for the books "
In the Trenches" and "
Button Tales and Myths") I used cotton linter, sea grass, earth and roots. It was
entered into the
Friends of Dard Hunter Paper Conference Show and Sale.... not sure exactly what happened to it.... but it had me wishing I had planted my indigo seeds. Hoping to do some more
cyanotype prints this spring and experiment with indigo plants as a fiber source in the fall.
"Through the Woods" 2010 FDH Conference
miscanthus wet sheets pressed between blotters and boards
The miscanthus "donation" from
Mira Scott was fairly easy to work with. I cooked a small amount of cut and soaked fiber for 4 hours and pulped it in a blender. I was able to make quite a few decent small sheets. I colored some with cinnamon for fun.... the cinnamon fragrance did not last long !
finished miscanthus paper with embedded ginkgo leaf - fun
Indigo seeds on the right and seeds for Hibiscus manihot used to make formation aid - ready for spring
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