Natural Pigments

This project explores techniques of extracting colour from food waste to dye textiles. Evidence of textiles being stained with natural pigments dates back to the Stone Age: 10,200 BCE, these natural pigments where depended on until the late 1850s. Technologies since then have continued evolving, now relying largely on harmful chemical processes and excessive water usage to support our globally enormous textiles industry. Natural pigments achieve dynamic colours not reached by chemical processes, they change over time and through exposure to sunlight, being dynamic long after the staining process is finished.