eco printing
WITH LOCAL PLANTS IN GUADALAJARA
During our time in the studio, we learned how to play and be curious with local plants and flowers in ways that can give life to textiles with environmentally responsible processes.
I was overjoyed to be a student of Athziri (Biosis) a Mexican fashion designer and consultant in circular design and innovation and Anahí (Juyania) a Mexican slow fashion and nature dye artist and designer.
I've participated in some interesting workshops but abundant care, technique, warmth, and brilliance are present with Anahí and Athziri in ways I'll always remember—in spirit and through these material manifestations.
The experience took place at Estudio Infame, a café with space for co-working and community workshops.
Moving with a desire to connect with the earth and natural environment throughout Guadalajara,
I participated in a two-day workshop facilitated by Juyania and Biosis who focus on circular production and slow fashion.
TECHNIQUE
Eco-printing & botanical stamping
DURATION
Summer 2024
PLACE
Guadalajara, Jalisco
FACILITATORS
Juyania and Biosis
The eco-printing process required a combination of land and ancestral connection, technique, patience, play, and trust.
Moving through the necessary learnings and steps across two days (with great anticipation) returned me to a sense of wonder and beauty with our natural world that I needed in the face of global devastation. Some of my favorite moments were:
Hearing the magic and lineage of the plants palo de brasil, cempasúchile, muicle, cosmos, pericon, and majahua.
Witnessing the unexpected colors from the plants transforming when met with water, salt, and textiles.
Having an intimate workshop experience with just one other person and sharing moments of awe.
Exploring, Cromática Natural by Athziri, a book that “promotes the importance of thinking about ourselves in relation to nature and ancestral technologies, linked to the processes of color applied to textiles, fashion and its universe of possibilities.”
textile creations as time capsules
and reflections of my relationship to nature
holding my eco-print textile with pinks, lavenders, golden yellows, and light browns in front of the exhibition opening for Cromatica Natural at Estudio Infame.
my eco-print textile freely hanging above the bed, on a wooden stick that I found in a nearby park, in front of a white brick bedroom wall.
me, radiating with joy and gratitude, holding my naturally dyed tote bag (unintentionally matching my aura and intuitively chosen attire) at the end of the workshop.