Meet the eco-print maker using plants from Table Mountain to produce her own fabricEco-printer, Kristen McClarty trades in the currency of unique creative surprises via her fabric range, which she hand-produces from plants found on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain. With today’s renewed emphasis on simplicity, durability and authenticity, Kristen McClarty’s eco-printing practice and products are as on-point as you could find. Kristen got to this by taking the long route. No art school or decades on a design team feature on her bio, but what does is a robust childhood in South Africa’s rural KwaZulu-Natal (1800km and en antire ecosystem away from where she now lives), which taught her, among several other country-girl skills, to sew and to identify the plants and trees that grew abundantly around her. In contrast, this was followed by a high-powered 13-year stint in corporate law. While she was super-fluent about fabric and flora from the get-go, where Kristen is now as a surface designer as much a science as it is about art; as much about precision, chemistry and biology as it is about the more soulful stuff of documenting her time and place in her surroundings in a way that others, she hopes, can enjoy.

Meet the eco-print maker using plants from Table Mountain to produce her own fabric

Eco-printer Kristen McClarty trades in the currency of unique creative surprises via her fabric range, which she hand-produces from plants found on the slopes of Cape Town’s Table Mountain. With today’s renewed emphasis on simplicity, durability and authenticity, Kristen McClarty’s eco-printing practices and products are as on-point as you could find. Kristen got to this by taking the long route. Also … Continue reading Meet the eco-print maker using plants from Table Mountain to produce her own fabric