Ummi is an advocate of sustainable fashion and is driven to create safer products for the environment. Photos: Ummi Kalthum Junid
Ummi Kalthum Junid, 35, is careful about the vegetable scraps that go into her rubbish bin. Instead of discarding onion peel, garlic skin and spices that she uses in her cooking, she boils them to extracts their natural colours which she then uses to dye fabric.
The dyed fabric pieces are then stitched together into patchwork designs that she frames and hangs as decorative wall art in her living room.
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Ummi's sustainable dyes
Ummi is an advocate of sustainable fashion and is driven to create safer products for the environment. Photos: Ummi Kalthum Junid
Ummi is on a mission to explore how vegetable scraps can be used to replace synthetic food colouring and also how to use them in DIY projects.
Ummi is an advocate of sustainable fashion and is driven to create safer products for the environment. Photos: Ummi Kalthum Junid
Natural indigo dye yields a good quality of the colour blue.
Ummi Kalthum is passionate about using natural dyes when she creates batik canting.
Don't throw away avocado skin or pit. They can be used as natural dyes.
Raja Permaisuri Agong Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah (right) admiring Ummi's creation at the 2019 Natural Dyes Creative Workshop.
Step 2: These items are boiled to extract its natural colour.
Step 1: Ummi saves onion peel, garlic skin and spices to make her dyes.
Natural dyes, made from food scraps, can be used to dye fibre such as yarn, clothing and pillowcases.
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