Bundle & Steam
Before a single garment leaves our workshop, it passes through a process that hasn't changed much since eco-printing began: real leaves and flowers, pressed into cloth, steamed until their colour and shape transfer permanently onto the fabric. No synthetic dyes. No printing plates. No chemical runoff — just plant, fabric, and heat.
Step 1
Foraged Botanicals
Every print starts with real leaves and flowers, foraged rather than synthetic. Each one is chosen for the colour and shape it will leave behind once steamed — no two batches of botanicals are ever quite the same.
Before any of that happens, the cloth itself has to be prepared to hold colour permanently — scoured, treated with a tannin bath, then mordanted, and rested for days to cure. It's slower than synthetic dyeing, but it's what makes the print last.
Step 2
Bundle
The botanicals are laid directly onto the fabric, which is then rolled tightly around them and tied with string. This is what makes every piece one of one — no two bundles are ever arranged the same way twice.
Tension is everything here — whether wrapped around a wooden dowel, an iron rod, or folded coreless, the core we choose changes not just how tightly the print holds, but the colour itself.
Step 3
Steam
The tied bundles go into a metal pot and are steamed for hours. Heat and moisture release the natural pigment from each leaf and flower, transferring its true colour and outline directly onto the cloth — with no synthetic dye involved at any point.
The bundles sit above the water, never in it — steam does the work, not the water. Get that gap wrong and the dyes wash out into faint, blurry, ghostly prints instead of holding their shape.
Step 4
Unwrap & Reveal
Once cooled, the bundles are untied to reveal the print underneath — the moment every eco-print becomes truly one of a kind. Leftover plant matter is composted rather than discarded, keeping the entire process zero-waste from start to finish.
The bundle rests untouched for 24 to 48 hours before opening, then the finished cloth cures in the shade — never direct sun — for 3 to 5 more days before its first wash. That patience is what locks the print in for good.
