Workshop: A Matter of Fruit – Drucken mit Pflanzenresten

In the organizer's words:

Workshop: A Matter of Fruit - Printing with plant residues

Conventional printing inks can contain potentially harmful
chemicals that can be hazardous to both human health and the
health and the environment.
In this workshop, plant pigments from our environment are used to
environment to create nature-friendly printing pastes.
create environmentally friendly print pastes.
The perishability and limitations of natural pigments will be taken into
pigments in order to create screen prints that do not last
last forever, but change over the course of time, thus
the transient beauty of nature and the impermanence of organic
of organic materials.

Those who wish can bring their own print media: light-colored textiles, T-shirts, tote bags, paper, cardboard

Verena Brom is...
...founder of Plantonic Noon Studio and a textile and material designer and product developer based in Berlin.

Her work includes:
- Research & development of plant-based materials
- Development of nature-friendly products
- Utilizing local resources
- Striving for a circular economy
During her professional experience in the fashion industry, she became deeply aware of the wasteful use of our resources and the complexity of the manufacturing processes. This was the trigger and a great motivation to make the material base of (textile) products more sustainable. In 2020, she founded the project "A Matter of Fruit", which uses press residues from the juice industry to create a plant-based material as an alternative to petroleum-based products. She has been driving the initiative forward ever since.

Price information:

The workshop is free of charge. Please register for the workshop by e-mail: innovative-citizen@fraunhofer.de