UPCYCLED MATTERS - Crop Top | Ecoprint

Upcycled Matters invited you to redefine the meaning of timeless -- a word that usually connotes with something plain and colorless. Timeless is not simply about the surface look, color, or pattern. Everything that the earth gives us is timeless. It is ourselves who often define it in the opposite way.

Timeless is about being true, kind, and compassionate. It's about giving with sincerity and receiving with gratitude. It's about being and doing with mindfulness and integrity to contribute to a healthy ecosystem. Timeless is a reminder that we are all students of life who walk through our learning journeys collectively, and that each journey begins at home.

MATERIALS
Calico Cotton. Selected thrifted natural fabric / clothing articles from trusted good will shop. Naturally-dyed with eucalyptus and guava leaves.

MEASUREMENTS
Fit M - L.

EMBRACE THE PROCESS
Bundle dye or ecoprint is a method of creating with botanical matters like leaves, flowers, seed pods and barks to print themselves on fabric (or paper) using their own dyes, pigments and tannin. Each shape of plant is unique and non-identical even with the same plant that come from the same tree, whilst the color of the plant is often different to the color it releases or prints.

Immersion dye is a method of coloring fibers by immersing/soaking/dipping the whole or a part of the fibers into a dye bath for certain amount of time. We use tannin-rich plants to make the colors long-lasting while being mindful that color of the plant is often different to the color it releases as dye.

The magic of nature plays the most vital role in the process, which makes the result of each creation a one-of-a-kind beauty and cannot be replicated.

Read more about our natural dyeing process

CARE INSTRUCTIONS
Hand wash in cool water with pH neutral soap. Dissolve or dilute the soap in the water before washing. You may see some release of color in the water at your first wash but it is normal. We recommend smoothing out wrinkles by hand. Hang it and air dry in the shade. Iron on low temperature. Store it away from direct heat and light.

IMPORTANT NOTE
We do our best to photograph our works and all of the photographs are taken in natural light. However, natural colors often cover more tones with more subtle shades, and please keep in mind that the colors may appear differently according to your computer screen, so slight variations in tones are to be expected.