Printing from the Garden by Alison Kelly

Create gorgeous floral prints on fabric and paper using the natural pigments of common garden plants, flowers, and leaves with this stunning guide to the art of botanical contact printing.

A first-of-its-kind visual guide and instructional handbook, Printing from the Garden showcases the stunning results one can achieve by using 30 common leaves and flowers to print on cloth and paper, capturing their unique forms and colors. No experience required: teacher and textile artist Alison Kelly provides step-by-step, photographed instructions for bundle dyeing, mirror printing, and printing on clothing. She offers many examples to illustrate the beautiful results that are possible. Anyone can create vibrant botanical artworks using nature’s design wonders:

– Eucalyptus

– Rose of Sharon

– Daylily

– Coreopsis

– Queen Anne’s lace

– And many more

This gorgeous guidebook offers practical instruction as well as inspirational examples of botanical printing–a craft that uses the pigments of leaves and flowers to create unique designs on fabric and paper.

About the Author: Alison Kelly is a textile artist and the founder of Flora Obscura, a Brooklyn, New York-based shop and design studio that uses plants and natural dyes to create one-of-a-kind floral prints, working with clients including J. Crew and Pottery Barn Teen. Kelly learned weaving, silversmithing, and natural dyeing in Mexico before studying fashion design in Italy and was cast on Project Runway back in New York City. She now teaches online and in-person workshops in the United States and internationally and can be found online at floraobscura.nyc.

26 Mar 2026
 

Printing from the Garden: Create Stunning, One-of-a-Kind Prints with Flowers and Leaves by Alison Kelly ISBN 9781635868760