Making Screen Printing Paint from Red Roses by designbykarya

Screen Print Ink from

RED ROSES

COOKBOOK

Recipes, Instructions and Techniques

Some Facts About Roses

When we think of red roses we understand the many usages of it. Maybe the perfect for the ‘special’ person. The perfect gift in Valentine’s Day. In Ancient Greece people used to associate roses with the Aphrodite goddess which is how the meaning of love started from roses. In many cultures’ history we also can see that roses have an important role and sometimes became a symbol for meanings. Most rose species are from China which spread around the world through time and they are one of the oldest flowers. But what are the roses used for today? Roses can be an important ingredient for skin care products, foods, spices, scents and perfumes, lotions... Different colors of roses and the number of them can express different meanings. Such as, we all know red roses give the meaning of love, yellow roses give the friendship meaning, white means innocence and many other colors for different meanings. Also one rose can mean love at first sight and fifteen can mean that you are sorry. Roses have different languages which can be useful to know when you are gifting it to someone. The important part of red roses for this book is coming from a special ingredient of red rose. Anthocyanins are water-soluble pigments which give the color red to the rose. This pigment can also be found in red cabbage, berries, redblue other fruits and vegetables, many other pink-red flowers. The interesting part of these anthocyanins are that they can change color in different pH levels. Anthocyanins will act by turning red-pink in acidic solutions. The stronger the acid is (<7 pH level) a stronger red color you will observe. In alcalis, (7> pH) these anthocyanins will turn blue-green. With this knowledge you can easily change the color of your pigment, paint and ink with anthocyanins. You can play with new colors by adding different acids and alcalis to your rose paint which you will learn about further in the book. You can also try with many solutions and also learn if the liquid is alcali or acid based on the reaction with anthocyanins. You are very free with experimenting and having fun with red roses and pigments.

Why More Sustainable Ink

Screen print paints have many components (binders, mediums, connecting materials, pigments) which cannot be considered as very sustainable. Many chemical components come together while making the different colors of screen print paint which has a negative impact on the environment. For this reason, I decided to come up with a more natural recipe for screen print paint from roses. The ingredients in these recipes are more organic and less harmful for the nature. It is responsible consumption production which is very easy to produce and repeat. I used red roses in this process. The interesting part is that the colors of different paints that can come out of a red rose. You can get yellow, green, blue, red, pink and many other varieties with mixing red rose pigment with different and more organic solutions. You are pretty much limitless and more environmentally-friendly. I tried using natural materials as much as possible. You can easily follow the recipes and make small changes while making the recipes as the way you want. You will need a few materials you can easily purchase. Small tip is that these paints work better on cloth. Keep in mind that the paint is water-soluble which will not stay the same after washing it. You can use this paint for non-washed cloths. I prefered using tote bags and the results came out very good.

Next time when your red roses are dried out don’t throw them away and make your own screen print paint!

Making Natural Screen Print Ink from Red Rose

Materials you need:

Tools you need:

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3 red roses Alcohol Water Nori Paste

Step 1: Making the Liquid Ink

Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface (glass slab) Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven Lino Cut Roller (optional)

Important: For all of the recipes you need dry red roses.

1) Start with drying your rose petals. (All the petals of the three red roses.) - You can dry them by laying all the petals in a sunny place for a few days. - More faster option is to dry them in the oven.

2) Preheat the oven for 80 Celcius. When it heats up lay your red petals from all 3 roses flat. Don’t put it on top of each other because that will slow down the process. After laying them all evenly bake them for 40-45 minutes. You will understand that the process is done when the petals turn all crispy. ( You can try crushing one of them just to make sure. If the petal crumbles in your hand it means that it has dried all up. )

3) Next step is to crush them into smaller pieces so they release more color. You can use a mortar for this. Put all your petals in your mortar and grind them into powder and smaller pieces. This process takes approximately 5 minutes. Keep in mind that not all of the petals will turn into powder. Some of them still remain in bigger pieces due to the humidity inside them.

4) We want to get rid of the bigger pieces in the rose powder. We can use a strainer for this part. You can make your powder go through the strainer into a cup. TIP: Shake the powder on the strainer to not waste any powder while your are getting rid of bigger chunks.

PART 1

Pure Rose Color Nr. 1

Making Natural Screen Print Ink from Red Rose - After you have rose powder in a cup you have to release the color of the powder. The main technique for this is adding alcohol. 5) Add 2 tsp of alcohol to your powder. TIP: You can use different kinds of alcohol such as Vodka, Gin and other liquids with high alcohol levels. Keep in mind that the color will be stronger on higher alcohol levels. You will immediately see the color change of the liquid after putting in the alcohol. To increase the level of fluidity and the amount of the ink you will have to use water.

6) Add 2 tsp of water in your liquid ink. 7) Mix and stir your mixture using a spoon until all gets even. You will realize that there are small particles from the rose powder in your mixture. This will affect the end paint which we don’t want.

8) Put your liquid ink through a coffee filter to get a more pure ink. This process takes approxiametly 10-15 minutes. The liquid ink is very valuable in the process. You have to be patient for it to finish dripping from the coffee filter.

Step 2: Making the Ink for Screenprint To make the paint more solid and less fluid you need to use some sort of paste. Otherwise, your paint will spread a lot on the surface you are printing on while screenprinting. - For this part you can use Nori Paste. Nori Paste is a paste used by Japanese artists for glue and making paint which is made from rice. 9) Add 2 tsp of Nori Paste on a glass slab and spread it using a palette knife. 10) You can now add your filtered ink on the Nori Paste. 11) To mix everything you have to use a palette knife. Mix the paint until every part of the paint is even and the same color. Optional: You can use Lino Cut Roller as well to mix more. After your paint is done you can put it in a cup and close its lid for the screenprinting part. 4

PART 2

Pure Rose Color Nr.1

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Purple Color Recipe Nr.2

Materials you need: • • • • •

PART 1

Making New Colors

Tools you need:

3 red roses Alcohol Water Vinegar (White) Nori Paste

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Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven

Step 1: Making the Liquid Ink 1) Start with drying your rose petals. (All the petals of the three red roses.) - You can dry them by laying all the petals in a sunny place for a few days. - More faster option is to dry it in the oven.

2) Preheat the oven for 80 Celcius. When it heats up lay your red petals from all 3 roses flat. After laying them all evenly bake them for 40-45 minutes. You will understand that the process is done when the petals turn all crispy. ( You can try crushing one of them just to make sure. If the petal crumbles in your hand it means that it has dried all up. )

4) To get rid of the bigger parts in the powder use a strainer. Strain your powder through the strainer until you have rose powder in a cup.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Purple Color Recipe Nr.2

5) In your cup of powder add the following liquids: • 2 tsp alcohol (You can use vodka, gin or other liquids with high alcohol level) • 2 tsp of water • 2 tsp of white vinegar You will see an immediate color change when you pour in the vinegar. Vinegar has high acidic level which causes the pigments in your powder to turn more red.

6) Mix and stir your mixture using a spoon until all gets even. 7) Put your liquid ink through a coffee filter to get a more pure ink without particles. This process takes approxiametly 10-15 minutes. The liquid ink is very valuable in the process. You have to be patient for it to finish dripping from the coffee filter.

Step 2: Making the Paint for Screenprint

8) Add 2 tsp of Nori Paste on a glass slab and spread it using a palette knife. We use the Nori Paste to make the paint less fluid. There is also an alternative for this paste if you can’t purchase from somewhere.

9) You can now add your filtered ink on the Nori Paste. 10) To mix everything you have to use a palette knife. Mix the paint until every part of the paint is even and the same color. Optional: You can use Lino Cut Roller as well to mix more.

After your paint is done you can store it in a cup with a closed lid for screenprinting! 6

PART 2

Making New Colors

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Pink Color Recipe Nr.3

Materials you need: • • • • •

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3 red roses Alcohol Water Nori Paste 1 Lemon

Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven

Step 1: Making the Liquid Ink

3) Next step is to crush them into smaller pieces. You can use your mortar for this. Put all your petals in your mortar and grind them into powder and smaller pieces. This process takes approximately 5 minutes. Keep in mind that not all of the petals will turn into powder. Some of them still remain in bigger pieces due to the humidity inside them.

4) To get rid of bigger parts in the powder use a strainer. Strain your powder through the strainer until you have rose powder in a cup.

PART 1

Making New Colors

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Pink Color Recipe Nr.3

5) In your cup of powder add the following liquids: • 2 tsp alcohol (You can use vodka, gin or other liquids with high alcohol level) • 2 tsp of water • All of the juice from 1 lemon You will see an immediate color change also when you add the lemon juice. Lemon’s acidic level is very strong. It’s pH level is around 2-3 which makes the lemon more acidic. 6) Mix and stir your mixture using a spoon until all gets even. 7) Put your liquid ink through a coffee filter to get a more pure ink without particles. This process takes approxiametly 10-15 minutes for all the precious ink to be filtered.

Step 2: Making the Paint for Screenprint

8) Add 2 tsp of Nori Paste on a glass slab and spread it using a palette knife. 9) You can now add your filtered ink on the Nori Paste. 10) To mix everything you have to use a palette knife. Mix the paint until every part of the paint is even and the same color. Optional: You can use Lino Cut Roller also to mix.

After your paint is done you can put it in a cup for the screenprinting part. 8

PART 2

Making New Colors

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose PART 1

Making New Colors Green Color Recipe Nr.4

Materials you need: • • • • •

Tools you need:

3 red roses Alcohol Water Nori Paste 2 Packs (5g each) of Baking Soda

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Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven

Step 1: Making the Liquid Ink 1) Start with drying your rose petals. (All the petals of the three red roses) - You can dry them by laying all the petals in a sunny place for a few days. - More faster option is to dry them in the oven.

2) Preheat the oven for 80 Celcius. When it heats up lay your red petals from all 3 roses flat. After laying them all evenly bake them for 40-45 minutes.

3) When your petals all your crispy next step is to crush them into powder. You can use your mortar for this. Put all your petals in your mortar and crush them into powder and smaller pieces. This process takes approximately 5 minutes. Keep in mind that not all of the petals will turn into powder. Some of them still remain in bigger pieces due to the humidity inside them.

4) To get rid of bigger parts in the powder use a strainer. Strain your powder through the strainer until you have rose powder in a cup.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Green Color Recipe Nr.4

PART 2

Making New Colors

5) In your cup of rose powder add the followings: • 2 tsp alcohol (You can use vodka, gin or other liquids with high alcohol level) • 2 tsp of water • 2 packets (5g each) of Baking Soda. (Total of 10 grams) You will realize that the color of the ink will change to blue-green when you add the baking soda. Baking soda is a alcali and it’s pH level is around 8.

6) Mix and stir your mixture using a spoon until it all gets even. 7) Put your liquid ink through a coffee filter to get a more pure ink without particles. This process takes approxiametly 10-15 minutes for all the precious ink to be filtered. We will also be able to get rid of baking soda particles with the help of filtering.

Step 2: Making the Paint for Screenprint

After your paint is done you can put it in a cup for the screen printing part. 10

Making Natural Screen Print Ink from Red Rose

Materials you need:

Tools you need:

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4 Red Roses Alcohol Water Rice Paste (page 19)

Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven

PART 1

Pure Rose Color Nr. 5

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Step 1: Making the Liquid Ink Important: For this recipe you need dry red roses. 1) Start with drying your rose petals. (All the petals of the four red roses) 2) Preheat the oven for 80 Celcius. When it heats up lay your red petals from all four roses flat. Don’t put it on top of each other because that will slow down the process. After laying them all evenly bake them for 40-45 minutes. If the petal crumbles in your hand it means when you test it the process is done.

3) Next step is to crush them into smaller pieces so they release more color. You can use a mortar for this. Put all your petals in your mortar and crush them into powder and smaller pieces. This process takes approximately 5-7 minutes. Keep in mind that not all of the petals will turn into powder. Some of them still remain in bigger pieces due to the humidity inside them.

4) We want to get rid of the bigger pieces in the rose powder. We can use a strainer for this part. You can make your powder go through the strainer into a cup.

TIP: Shake the powder on the strainer to not to waste any powder while your are getting rid of bigger chunks.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink from Red Rose

- After you have rose powder in a cup you have to release the color of the powder. The main technique for this is adding alcohol.

PART 2

Pure Rose Color Nr.5

5) Add 4 tsp of alcohol to your powder. (Vodka and gin works good) 6) Add 4 tsp of water in your liquid ink. Fact: The reason why you are adding more liquid this time is that water and alcohol is the only fluids in this recipe. If you add less alcohol or water you will have smaller amount of ink which will affect the final paint color resulting it to be a more pale color.

7) Mix and stir your mixture using a spoon until it all gets even. 8) Put your liquid ink through a coffee filter into a cup. This process takes approxiametly 10-15 minutes. The liquid ink is very valuable in the process. You have to be patient for it to finish dripping from the coffee filter.

Step 2: Making the Paint for Screenprint To make the paint more solid and less fluid you need to use some sort of paste. Otherwise, your paint will spread a lot on the surface you are printing on while screenprinting. - For this part you can use your homemade organic rice paste. (Look at page X) 9) Add 2 tsp of rice paste on a glass slab and spread it using a palette knife. 10) You can now add your filtered ink on the Nori Paste. 11) To mix everything you have to use a palette knife. Mix the paint until every part of the paint is even and the same color. Optional: You can use Lino Cut Roller aswell to mix more. TIP: You might need to mix the rice paste more rather than the Nori Paste. Nori Paste is made from rice however, went through fabrication process for these applications to be easier.

After your paint is done you can put it in a cup and close its lid for the screenprinting part. Important: Rice Paste can start to go bad after 2-3 days due to it being organic. It is important to use it maximum 1,5 the days later after making the paint.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose PART 1

Making New Colors Pink Mixed with Purple Color Recipe Nr.6

Materials you need: • • • • •

Tools you need: • • • • • •

4 red roses Alcohol Water Vinegar (White) Rice Paste (page 19)

Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven

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Step 1: Making the Liquid Ink 1) Start with drying your rose petals. (All the petals of the four red roses) 2) Preheat the oven for 80 Celcius. When it heats up lay your red petals from all 4 roses flat. After laying them all evenly bake them for 40-45 minutes. You will understand that the process is done when the petals turn all crispy. ( You can try crushing one of them just to make sure. If the petal crumbles in your hand it means that it has dried all up. )

4) To get rid of bigger parts in the powder use a strainer. Strain your powder through the strainer until you have rose powder in a cup.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Pink Mixed with Purple Color Recipe Nr.6

PART 2

Making New Colors

5) In your cup of rose powder add the followings: • 2 tsp alcohol (You can use vodka, gin or other liquids with high alcohol level) • 2 tsp of water • 2 tsp of white vinegar. You will see an immediate color change when you pour in the vinegar. Vinegar has high acidic level which causes the pigments in your powder to turn more red.

Step 2: Making the Paint for Screenprint

8) Add 2 tsp of your home made rice paste on a glass slab and spread it using a palette knife. 9) You can now add your filtered ink on the your home made rice paste. 10) To mix everything you have to use a palette knife. Mix the paint until every part of the paint is even and the same color. Optional: You can use Lino Cut Roller also to mix. TIP: You might need to mix the rice paste more rather than the Nori Paste. Nori Paste is made from rice however, went through fabrication process for these applications to be easier.

After your paint is done you can put it in a cup for the screen printing part. Important: Rice Paste can start to go bad after 2-3 days due to it being organic. It is important to use it maximum 1,5 the days after making the paint.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose PART 1

Making New Colors Pink Color Recipe Nr.7

Materials you need: • • • • •

Tools you need: • • • • • •

4 red roses Alcohol Water 1 Lemon Rice Paste (page 19)

Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven

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3) Next step is to crush them into smaller pieces. You can use a mortar for this. Put all your petals in the mortar and crush them into powder and smaller pieces. This process takes approximately 5-7 minutes.

4) To get rid of bigger parts in the powder use a strainer. Strain your powder through the strainer until you have rose powder in a cup.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Pink Color Recipe Nr.7

5) In your cup of rose powder add the followings: • 2 tsp alcohol (You can use vodka, gin or other liquids with high alcohol level) • 2 tsp of water • All of the juice of 1 lemon (You can squeeze the lemon for the juice or use another tool to get the juice out.) You will see an immediate color change also when you add the lemon juice. Lemons acidic level is very strong. It’s pH level is around 2-3 which makes the acidic level quite strong. Which will make your ink turn red.

Step 2: Making the Paint for Screenprint 8) Add 2 tsp of your home made rice paste on a glass slab and spread it using a palette knife. 9) You can now add your red filtered ink on the your home made rice paste. 10) To mix everything you have to use a palette knife. Mix the paint until every part of the paint is even and the same color. Optional: You can use Lino Cut Roller also to mix. TIP: You might need to mix the rice paste more rather than the Nori Paste. Nori Paste is made from rice however, it went through fabrication process for these applications to be easier.

PART 2

Making New Colors

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose PART 1

Making New Colors Yellow Color Recipe Nr.8

Materials you need: • • • • •

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4 red roses Alcohol Water Rice Paste (page 19) 2 Packs (5g each) of Baking Soda

Coffee Filter Mortar Glass surface Palette Knife Teaspoon Oven

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3) Next step is to crush them into smaller pieces. You can use a mortar for this. Put all your petals in the mortar and grind them into powder and smaller pieces. This process takes approximately 5-7 minutes.

4) To get rid of bigger parts in the powder use a strainer. Strain your powder through the strainer until you have rose powder in a cup.

Making Natural Screen Print Ink From Red Rose

Pink Color Recipe Nr.8

Step 2: Making the Paint for Screenprint 8) Add 2 tsp of your home made rice paste on a glass slab and spread it using a palette knife. 9) You can now add your filtered ink on the your home made rice paste. 10) To mix everything you have to use a palette knife. Mix the paint until every part of the paint is even and the same color. Optional: You can use Lino Cut Roller also to mix. TIP: You might need to mix the rice paste more rather than the Nori Paste. Nori Paste is made from rice however, it went through fabrication process for these applications to be easier.

PART 2

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How to Make Rice Paste

Materials you need:

Tools you need:

• Rice Flour • Water

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Pan Stove Spoon Cup

1) Mix 2 tablespoons of rice flour with 100 ml cold water. 2) Mix the rice flour and the water in a cup using a spoon until it gets even and milky. 3) In a pan, boil 150 ml water on your stove. 4) After the water boils up add your flour-water mixture and start stirring. Important: Don’t stop stirring throughout the cooking part. 5) After 2-3 minutes you will realize the mixture starts to get more solid and less fluid. 6) Keep stirring and after approxiametely 5 minutes you will realize it gets difficult to stir and the mixture feels like a paste. 7) After the mixture turns translucent and feels like a paste you can leave it to cool down.

TIP: You can stir once in a while it is cooling down.

After your paste is cold and ready you can use your home made rice paste in your paints! 19

Quick Summary of Screen Printing and what to watch out for while using your paint 1) First step is to print your design on a transparent acetate sheet which will be your stencil for the later steps. 2) You need to use a special screen for this printing technique. Choosing the fabric screen for using your paint on cloth is better for your outcome. 3) Next step is to coat your screen with light-reactive emulsion liquid. Don’t use too much or too little of this emulsiuon liquid. When you see the thin layer coated that will be enough. 4) When the screen dries, the fourth step is to put your stencil under your coated screen. Your coated screen part has to be on the acetat paper and has to be touching it so the emulsion will happen. 5) You have to expose the coated screen and the design with a very bright light. There are machines for this. 6) Now after exposing your screen you can wash away the light reactive emulsion. You will realize your design popping up when you start washing the screen. 7) After your screen is washed and dried you can start using your paints. 8) Put a fabric/cloth under your screen and put some of your paint on the screen. Then, swipe your paint through the screen. With this you will realize the empty parts of the screen will make your paint pass through and your design will be printed.

What to Watch Out for Using the Natural Paint Depending on the fluiditiy of your paint, some of the natural paints can spread on your cloth more than expected. Especially the ones made with rice paste. Try not to apply too much pressure when you are swiping your paint on the screen. You can try a test round before the main print. Keep in mind that paints can look different colors depending on your surface. You can realize a different color of print coming out on the paper other than the cloth. However; keep in mind that the cloth shows the original color and the design more in this process. 20

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