These shirts were printed using an original concoction of natural dyes and emulsion. The black, a challenging color to produce with botanical dyes, is sourced from natural inks: pine soot, the black used for inkstones, cuttlefish and squid ink. 

The white shirts feature prints sourced and slightly altered from t-shirts deemed to have historic value and stored in the V&A museum in London. I wanted to compare traditional acrylic-based screenprinting with what is possible with natural dyes. 

For no particular reason, the yellow shirts feature prints sourced from a 1940s french lunchbox.  And the deliberately wonky striped shirts are just that,