Textile Project, UNSW, COFA, 2013

8/13/2019 Textile Project, UNSW, COFA, 2013

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By Tharida Rattanajaturon 3326192

Project 1B Natural Dye, Block andStencil Printin

Concept of Wild Nature (Adjusted)

Natural beauty, natural growth, uncontrollable, unruly and etc., these words can be described as Wild

Nature, the true beauty of nature in which human is not involved to create it. Landscapes, wild animals, wild

plants or even grassland are the part of wild nature that creates such a beautiful illustration to this world. In this

project the idea of wild nature is created through natural dye, block and stencil printing techniques by the

used of natural product along with natural color scheme of yellow and brown scale. This conveys the image of

sunlight and solid ground. To create patterns, materials where carved into a shape of dandelion (abstract) andthe plastic sheet were cut out into pattern of grass filed and dandelion branch. The pattern represents natural

concept to produce a textile that has an insight of beautiful scene of dandelion filed, a beautiful landscape

that is natural growth and commonly found in many areas. Through blocks and stencil used, the ideas and

concepts of Wild Nature have been brought onto the fabric.


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Natural Dye

For the completion of this project, I dyed some more fabric to be used. I experiment with the red pigment from

strawberry but the result seem to be not satisfied so I decided to dyed most of the fabric to yellow color from

turmeric because I want to stick to the idea of sun light (yellow) as a background for all my artworks.

Number 1: Blown away

I chose this piece of artwork to be my Number 1 image because I was really happy with the final work. I like all

the component that are placed in different position to create a nice beautiful scene just like how I imagined it

to be. This piece of artwork strongly carried out the message I try to present onto the fabric. I enjoyed creating

all pieces of artwork even thought I got a few cuts from trying to cut out the pattern on the plastic sheet I still

enjoyed all the process. However it was quite difficult to work with multiple layer of the pattern. I needed to be

very patient to wait for the first layer print to dry first to apply the following. It was quite frustrated but really

worth it.


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Fabric Type: Cotton

Size: Approximately A4 size

Technique use:

- Tie and Natural Dye (with 4 rubber bands). Left in bath for approximately 12 hours.- Stencil printing. (One Stencil print)- Block printing. (Two printing blocks)

Printing paste: Permaset Textile Print

Medium: Turmeric (Natural Dye Medium)

Mordant: Cream of Tartar and Iodized salt (Natural Dye Mordant)

Color mixture: Brown (Yellow, Red, Black)

Screen Layer: First: Dried dandelion body template with brown paint

Second: Block printing of dandelion abstract with white paint

Last: Block printing of dandelion abstract (smaller size) with yellow paint

Artwork description: Blown away carried out the concept of a nice beautiful scene of dandelion filed. This

piece of artwork capture the part when dandelion is blown away from the filed by the wind.


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Number 3: The Filed


Technique use:

- Natural Dye (with 5 rubber bands). Left in bath for approximately 12 hours.- Stencil printing. (One Stencil print)- Block printing. (One printing block)


Medium: Turmeric (Natural Dye Medium)



Screen Layer: First: Dried grass filed template with brown paint.

Second: Dried grass filed template with yellow paint.

Last: Block printing of dandelion abstract with white paint.

Artwork description: The filed represents the whole dandelion filed of my imagination. It has the background

of yellow to demonstrate sunlight, different color of dried grass demonstrated the combination of different grass

in the filed and the time at which dried out at different period of time but still stay in the same filed to create

such a beautiful scene.


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Number 4: Dandelion


Technique use:

- Natural Dye (Left in bath for approximately 12 hours.- Stencil printing. (One Stencil print)- Block printing. (Two printing blocks)


Medium: Tea bags and coffee beans (Natural Dye Medium)



Screen Layer: First: Dried dandelion body template with dark brown paint

Second: Dried dandelion body template with brown paint

Third: Block printing of dandelion abstract (smaller size) with white paint

Last: Block printing of dandelion abstract with yellow paint

Artwork description: Dandelion shows the basic concept of dandelion filed, the combination of the dried

dandelion body and its pedals blowing away from the filed.

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Textile Project, UNSW, COFA, 2013