The Use of Tissue Fabric as A Media for Giving Geometric Textured Motifs to Ecoprint Lea Kristina Anggraeni, Prasetyo Wahyudie, Susy Budi Astuti, Onna Anieqo Tanadda, Rifdah Azizah Salsabila
Faculty of Creative Desgin and Digital Business, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Surabaya 60111, Indonesia
Abstract
Ecoprint is a technique to decorate cloth naturally by printing plants to form a pattern. Various types, shapes and parts of plants mostly used to make ecoprints. The current attractiveness of ecoprint products is not only in the shape and composition of plant arrangements, but also in the addition of color variations to the background of ecoprint motifs. In this study, tissue fabrics are used because they are easy to find and can be used over and over again. In addition, tissue fabrics provide distinctive motifs and textures that can be a differentiator, increasing competitiveness and aesthetic value to ecoprint products by providing textural and compositional motifs to the background color. Steaming technique is used in the process of making ecoprint and also the used of natural dyes. Textured motifs are obtained from the use of tissue fabrics as a coloring medium in the ecoprint manufacturing process. The tissue fabrics is then composited onto the ecoprint cloth with various geometric shapes. The fibers and the combination of the geometric shapes of the tissue fabrics in ecoprint provide a unique and different visual appearance for Ecoprint products. Further studies are needed regarding the variation of dye materials used in tissue media.
