JUNKO HISHIKAWA
PLANTS COLORS
When I was painting on cloth with acrylic paint,
"By the way, I wonder if I can make paint myself ..."
What I thought was a chance to head to dyeing and weaving.
I learned about plants pigment at EarthNetwork and I met a color (having "temperature") of plants.
thereafter, my vector acceleratedly headed to "material", and I was trying to dye yarn with plants and weaving it.
But, if you think about it, it was natural that you got color from familiar plants until about 160 years ago when chemical dyes were invented, so it is nothing special.
But in only 160 years, its wisdom and method almost disappeared.
The most troubling thing that one thing is not needed from society is thinking that "there are no people who can judge good or bad."
I think that approaching the wisdom and techniques of dyeing (according to the material, according to the land) for a long time, together with the lives of life, is not easy.
Chemical dyes are attractive dyes that can produce any color, but I think that it can not only produce the color of plant dyes. It is not a visual meaning.Rather, if you only want just "color", I think we should use chemical dyes. But I want to use the color of the material as it is or the color got from the plant. It is sometimes beginning with botanical sampling and getting colors from plants is fun for me! it is because.