World 2, Exploration B

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Hand-drawn poster about natural dyeing.
Colour sketches of casual garments dyed in assorted natural shades.
Colour palette in shades of orange, brown and purple produced by natural dyeing.
Attractive hand-drawn poster with the slogan ‘Synthetic Dyes? No more!’ and suggesting the alternative use of vegetables.
Printed poster showing UK plants for producing various colours, such as wild foxglove for green, woad and cornflower for blue or purple, silver birch for pink or red, and wild carrot for orange.
Examples of fabric dyeing and printing using vegetables and sauces.

In World 2, they have shifted to a fully environmentally friendly approach; avoiding the use of any synthetic dyes and pesticides. Dyeing and staining examples shown here include the use of black beans, turmeric, or beetroot; prints and motifs created using various methods; and a variety of deeply coloured, or greasy foods including soy sauce, cabbage, and ketchup.

This Exploration was contributed by Beatriz Sartorelli-Gyuricza, Brooke Sheerin, Alyssia Sheldon, Daniela Viado and Ruby Tilbrook (located in the UK), developed from a World contributed by Amy Twigger Holroyd, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.

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