Oil tanned fish leather dyed with spirulina

Properties & Qualities

Application

Accessories Jewellery Lighting

Qualities

2D Colourful Flexible Rigid Textured / tactile Translucent

Colour

Black Blue

Sample Information

Date of Creation

October 10, 2022

Dimensions

20 cm x 8 cm

Culture & Context

Project website prototype: fish

Process & Production

Oil tanning. After tanned and dried, the skins were put in cold spirulina water for two days. This sample was not softened.

Recipe Details

Recipe for 5 small skins:

1 egg yolk

1 ts dishwash soap (the small spoon)

1 dl olive or rapeseed oil

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Put the skins in and massage the skins. Roll them up in rolls and leave for 15 min. Hang the skins to dry in a warm room. Let the skins hang to dry for about 2 days.

Credits

Craft Maker

Ragnhild Amalie Watvedt Jensen Sasha Gonzales Yoyo Peng Ieva Mikutaite

Library Contributor

Ragnhild Amalie Watvedt Jensen

Photographer

Sasha Gonzales Ragnhild Amalie Watvedt Jensen

Practitioner

Design School Kolding

Through education, development and research, Design School Kolding represents and supports a diversity of crafts, incorporating a broad range of material resources and using multiple techniques – analogue as well digital.