In an exhibition that closed on Sunday in the University of New Mexico Art Museum there was a roughly 3'X8' inkjet print made with natural dyes. It looked roughly as photographic as photo silkscreen, which may have had mostly to do with the coarse paper. I don't know what kind of inkjet printer was used, or the name of the photographer. The oldest of England's guilds (pre-Chaucer) is the Dyer's Guild. It's held, that many natural dyes, fixed with urine (a "mordant") are more stable than are industrial (aniline) dyes. I know from direct experience that dyes made from such things as oak gall (yellows and browns) and from walnut hulls (potential for near-black), fixed in acetic acid, are more fade resistant on wool than comparable aniline dyes, and that aniline dyes used by Navajo on rugs for the past 100+ years tend to fade, whereas their older naturally dyed wool has remained intense (though not as colorful). Unfortunately I don't have contact info for the inkjet/dye photographer...maybe somebody here knows her.
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natural inkjet dyes..
2008-11-11 by djon43
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