Medieval Colours series
A series of cards with a design based on Medieval themes and on natural dyes common in Medieval times. The design panels all use textiles dyed with natural dyes on a base of handmade paper that often incorporates plant and vegetable artefacts.
Each 6" by 4" folded card (15cm by 10cm) is made from 100% recycled materials and bears a unique design on the centre of the front cover. The designs comprise a handmade paper background with a foreground of silk dyed with natural dyes and natural artefacts. All the cards are unique and the design may vary from the photograph.
The inside of the card is left blank for your own message.
Medieval Shield
This design is made with several types of silk and cotton with plant dyes: madder roots give the red, the yellow is from weld leaves and the blue from woad leaves. The green is made from weld over-dyed with woad.
The embroidery threads are also made from silk dyed with plant dyes. The speckled brown backing paper is made from a mixture of banana skin and recycled paper.
MES-01
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Terracotta and Moss
This design is made with several types of silk and cotton dyed with plant dyes: coppery orange from the yellow of weld over-dyed with maroon red of madder roots and emerald green from weld over-dyed with woad.
The white paper I made from shredded computer printout, and the speckled brown backing paper is made from a mixture of banana skin and recycled paper.
TEM-01
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Medieval Carnival
All the colours in the design panel were in use in medieval times. I make this card with several types of silk and cotton dyed with plant dyes: red from madder roots; the yellow from weld leaves and blue from woad. The green is weld over-dyed with woad.
MEC-01
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Honesty
This design does not use silk and cotton but is a more subtle array of colours. It uses different types of homemade paper with the pearlescent seed pods of the honesty plant sewn into the design. The white paper is made from shredded computer printout, and the speckled brown backing paper is made from a mixture of banana skin and recycled paper.
HON-01
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