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The Craft of Natural Dyeing: Glowing Colours from the Plant World

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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.

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.

I'm a novice fabric dyer and thius book provided a wealth of info and did it very clearly

Excellent book! The other books by this lady are great. Good info with excellent instructions.