Contact Prints: Basics & Beyond with Judilee Fitzhugh

Explore contact printing with plant material directly on your fabric or paper at BARN!

Achieve incredibly vibrant and realistic leaf prints using contact printing, a natural dye method of transferring the pigments found in plant material directly to cloth or paper (also known as eco-printing or botanical printing). You will explore the basics of contact printing, including some rudimentary plant physiology and how to manipulate prints with mordants and dye blankets. You also will experiment with some simple shibori techniques and easy methods of embellishing the finished prints.