Label templates
Labeling your samples, Loes Bogers, 2020
As you start to create your material experiments, you will want to organize the way you archive them. These labels can be used to organize your samples. Only include items that are fully cured and/or dried.
All these labels can be printed on regular office printers that can print on heavier paper, like A4, 160 or 210 grams/m2. Check what your printer allows. They can be edited InDesign or Acrobat Pro (for now).
Use strong double-sided tape to attach a strong label with a hole to it if you wish to hang them. Designs for a display system will be added here at a later stage.
The label designs were originally created by Maria Viftrup for TextileLab Waag in Amsterdam, modified by Loes Bogers in April 2020 with permission by Waag. The font used is Calibri light.
Large labels
These labels are 21 x 20 cm (WxH)
InDesign file for large labels
Medium labels
These labels are 15 x 14.2 cm (WxH)
InDesign file for large labels
Small labels
These labels are 10.5 x 10 cm (WxH)
InDesign file for large labels
##Growing your local (physical) archive
A nice systematic way of growing your archive is by starting simple variations on existing recipes, e.g. by changing the amounts, adding or substituting one ingredient, etcetera.
Title
Think of a short, descriptive title
[Core]-based?
Here you can what is the main constituent material to help describe what kind of material this is. This is not a hard classification, but is supposed to provide a meaningful descriptor to help place the material (which the title alone might not be able to do).
For example, a bioplastic may be gelatine-based, or agar-based, or starch-based (or a combination). Fish leather is animal-based, whereas a mango leather would be plant-based, or perhaps even based on fruit waste. Dyes or inks are usually classified accordig to their solvent: e.g. alcohol-based or water-based because it says something about how they might be used. Whereas pure pigment (powders, or pigments grown on silk like the Serratia Marcescens recipe could be considered microbial.
Some examples:
- animal-based (fish leather)
- gelatine-based (bioplastics with gelatine)
- plant-based (cotton)
- based on algae (alginate and agar plastics)
- food waste (clay from banana peels)
- natural waste (withered flower paper)
- plastic waste (recycled PLA)
- microbial (e.g. kombucha, bacterial dye)
- fungal (e.g. mycelium, is not in the 25 recipes listed here for now)
- alcohol-based (red cabbage ink with alcohol as the solvent)
- water-based (dyes made by boiling dye stuff in water)
Renewable/reusable/compostable?
All these terms are explained on the glossary page.
Ingredients/making procedure