Ecoprinting at the cottage

We spent a week at the family cottage and I did some ecoprinting there.  I scoured a vintage cotton sheet and prepared it for printing at home.  Here are some strips which I bundled up with plant materials hanging on the wash line afterwards.  I'm pleased with the colours because cotton is harder to print than protein fibres like silk and wool. You can really see the wild grape.

I also did a series on watercolour paper.  The print in the photo below was done with sumac and madder powder sprinkled around it.

The prints below were done with linden leaves and ferns and hibiscus flowers around them.  The dark purple bits are logwood.  I want to try using them on cotton and silk too.

In the prints below I used Labrador Tea and a Black Eyed Susan on the left and a beech branch on the right.  Both prints still have logwood in them.  The colour is softer the farther away in the stack the logwood is.

I used sumac again in the print on the left below.  It must be quite potent at the moment because it totally bled through into the next print which is tansy and mullein.