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  The Eco-Printing; title sounds romantic, doesn’t it? The craft is even more so! This technique of eco-printing allows you to capture the natural inherent colors and patterns of leaves, flowers, and stems on fabric. Kind of like taking a time stamp of a season or a tree! The only thing you need to keep in mind is that eco-printing comes out beautifully on n atural fabrics like Organic cotton, wool, linen, silk , etc. As you perfect the craft you can add mordants and modifiers to tweak your prints. How did Eco Printing come about? India Flint, one of the famous names in natural dyeing was the one who pioneered eco-printing. She was out in her garden and saw that the hen had laid some eggs and surprisingly they had leaf prints! Upon closer inspection, she found that eucalyptus leaves were releasing colors on the eggs. And this happened because of the conducive atmosphere created due to the dampness surrounding the nest and the warmth when the hen sat on her eggs. This incident inspi...