Silk dyed with madder, wool dyed with woad over banana skin and madder paper
This greeting card design is made with Habotai silk dyed red with madder and hand spun blue-faced Leicester wool dyed blue with woad couched in a Galaxy shape and embroidered with silk thread. The brown-speckled paper is made from banana skin paper and the pink paper is made with a mixture of madder roots and recycled paper.
Price
£2.95
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Our Night Sky greeting card designs are inspired by the night sky and feature stars, galaxies, suns and planets, using natural dyes from Europe and the UK. The design panels all use textiles dyed with natural dyes on a base of handmade paper.
Each 6" by 4" (15 by 10 cm) handmade greetings card bears a unique design on the centre of the front cover. The designs are 2.5” to 3” wide and comprise a handmade paper background with a foreground of silk and thread or fibre dyed with natural dyes. All of the handmade greetings cards are unique and the design may vary from the photograph. The inside of the greetings card is left blank for your own message. The greetings cards are made from cream-coloured, 100% recycled paper.
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