The glowing yellow of goldenrod, the warm brown of walnut shells, the pale green of birch leaves ... all the colors of nature delight the eye. To create an infinite variety of beautiful natural colors on wool, silk, cotton and other yarns and materials you can use a host of flowers, leaves, barks and roots, from dahlias and safflower to onion skins and turmeric. Expert dyer Jenny Dean shows you how to dye at home using simple equipment. There is helpful advice on the mordanting process that will fix the color, and guidance on light-fastness, plus instructions on how to use traditional dyestuffs such as color, indigo, weld and madder. For the true enthusiast, there is a chapter on growing one's own dye plants, but even the first-time dyer will be captivated by the rich effects obtainable in the world of natural color.
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Jenny Dean is a linguist, lecturer, and experimental dyer who has a business supplying natural dyes and runs workshops on natural dyeing.
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What a great resource this book is! As a teacher for young children, this book provided a great background of the craft, easy instructions and even a glossary of terms. For someone who has never experimented with the natural dyeing process, the book was a great place to begin. The wondeful colored pictures were also a delightful reference especially for showing children when presenting a lesson.
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This is a great little book, especially if you live in the southwest where many of these plants are abundant. Even if you don't live in the southwest, there are plenty of recipes and techniques to get your wool, hemp or whatever dyed a great color for your purposes. As a dye artist, I don't like handling chemical dyes. They are carcinogenic. Some natural ones are too, but they are few and far between. This book gives you options to use natural and organic materials to dye your fabrics so you and they are not exposed to carcinogenic baths. You will like this book. It is well organized, easy to use, and may even become your natural dyeing Bible.
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- The Gourmet Paper Maker by Ellaraine Lockie in Back Matter
- Wild Color: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Natural Dyes by Jenny Dean in Back Matter
- Indigo Dying (China Bayles Mystery) by Susan Wittig Albert in Back Matter
- Indigo Dying by Susan Wittig Albert in Back Matter
- Dyes by Ruth Kassinger in Back Matter
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