Botanical Impressions - The Triangle Community Newspaper

This is my exhibition of botanical contact printing on fabric at the Lazy Lizard Side Room during March 2026.

I have a passion for textiles. I weave fabric, explore traditional surface design techniques including botanical contact printing, shibori resist dyeing and katazomi printing using stencils and rice paste resist, working primarily with indigo and natural dyes and I sew to try to create beautiful, practical pieces.

The work in this exhibition centres around botanical contact printing using local leaves and plants but focuses on the most iconic of our native trees, the eucalypts.

An array of fabric articles with botanical themed designs

Botanical impressions

The process of botanical contact printing uses leaves and plant materials to create direct impressions on fabric, enhanced with natural dyes. Each print echoes nature’s form, colour and texture. I am drawn to the magic and the unpredictability of this process, the way leaves release their pigments, the subtle shifts in tone and the organic patterns that can never be repeated exactly.

Printing my own fabrics allows me to transform textiles into one-of-a-kind pieces. I create bags, garments, scarves and homewares from them. I hope to maintain the beauty and integrity of the botanical materials I work with by producing pieces that others can enjoy.

Delma Rosemond

Acknowledgment of Country

The Triangle is a community paper, principally for the region bounded by the three prominent mountains: Peak Alone, Gulaga and Mumbulla. It is produced on the traditional lands of the Yuin nation and we acknowledge that this was and will always be Yuin Country. We are grateful for their thousands of years of careful and deliberate stewardship of Country and pay our respects to Yuin Elders past, present and emerging.

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