Author: Chris McLaughlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985562281
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Garden to Dye For shows how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer's garden and create beautiful botanical dyes. Features include 40-plus plants that the gardener-crafter can grow for an all-natural, customized color palette. A dyer's garden can be a mosaic of flowers, herbs, roots and fruits that lend us their pigments to beautify other areas of our lives.
Harvesting Color
Author: Rebecca Burgess
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579654258
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
"'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases thre dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow yourself, she details when to sow the seed and how to nuture the plant. For all the plants, you'll learn the optimal time to harvest, as well as how to extract the best dyes" --Cover flap.
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 1579654258
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
"'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases thre dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow yourself, she details when to sow the seed and how to nuture the plant. For all the plants, you'll learn the optimal time to harvest, as well as how to extract the best dyes" --Cover flap.
The Dyer's Garden
Author: Rita Buchanan
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
An explanation of the plants to grow for fabric dyes, how to care for them, and how to make dyes.
Publisher: Interweave
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
An explanation of the plants to grow for fabric dyes, how to care for them, and how to make dyes.
A Garden to Dye for
Author: Chris McLaughlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985562281
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Garden to Dye For shows how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer's garden and create beautiful botanical dyes. Features include 40-plus plants that the gardener-crafter can grow for an all-natural, customized color palette. A dyer's garden can be a mosaic of flowers, herbs, roots and fruits that lend us their pigments to beautify other areas of our lives.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985562281
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Garden to Dye For shows how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer's garden and create beautiful botanical dyes. Features include 40-plus plants that the gardener-crafter can grow for an all-natural, customized color palette. A dyer's garden can be a mosaic of flowers, herbs, roots and fruits that lend us their pigments to beautify other areas of our lives.
A Weaver's Garden
Author: Rita Buchanan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136396
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics, soap plants to use for cleaning textiles, fragrant plants to scent and protect fabrics; planning and creating a garden featuring cotton, flax, indigo, and much more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486136396
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics, soap plants to use for cleaning textiles, fragrant plants to scent and protect fabrics; planning and creating a garden featuring cotton, flax, indigo, and much more.
Dye Plants and Dyeing--a Handbook
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dye plants
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dye plants
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Natural Color
Author: Sasha Duerr
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 160774936X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A beautiful book of seasonal projects for using the brilliant spectrum of colors derived from plants to naturally dye your clothing and home textiles. Organized by season, Natural Color is a beautifully photographed guide to the full range of plant dyes available, drawn from commonly found fruits, flowers, trees, and herbs, with accompanying projects. Using sustainable methods and artisinal techniques, designer, artist, and professor Sasha Duerr details achievable ways to apply these limitless color possibilities to your home and wardrobe. Whether you are new to dyeing or more practiced, Duerr's clear and simple ingredients lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed breakouts on techniques such as shibori, dip-dye, and block printing will ensure beautiful results. With recipes to dye everything from dresses and sweaters to rugs and napkins, Natural Color will inspire fashion enthusiasts, home decorators, textile lovers, and everyone else who wants to bring more color into their life.
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 160774936X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A beautiful book of seasonal projects for using the brilliant spectrum of colors derived from plants to naturally dye your clothing and home textiles. Organized by season, Natural Color is a beautifully photographed guide to the full range of plant dyes available, drawn from commonly found fruits, flowers, trees, and herbs, with accompanying projects. Using sustainable methods and artisinal techniques, designer, artist, and professor Sasha Duerr details achievable ways to apply these limitless color possibilities to your home and wardrobe. Whether you are new to dyeing or more practiced, Duerr's clear and simple ingredients lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed breakouts on techniques such as shibori, dip-dye, and block printing will ensure beautiful results. With recipes to dye everything from dresses and sweaters to rugs and napkins, Natural Color will inspire fashion enthusiasts, home decorators, textile lovers, and everyone else who wants to bring more color into their life.
Dye Plants and Dyeing
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes
Author: Sasha Duerr
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604690712
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Through step-by-step instructions and color-saturated photographs, textile designer Sasha Duerr explains the basics of making and using natural plant dye, from gathering materials and making the dyes to simple ideas for how to use them. --from publisher description
Publisher: Timber Press
ISBN: 1604690712
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Through step-by-step instructions and color-saturated photographs, textile designer Sasha Duerr explains the basics of making and using natural plant dye, from gathering materials and making the dyes to simple ideas for how to use them. --from publisher description
Dyes from Nature
Author: Rita Buchanan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Plants & garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden record, vol. 46, no. 3, autumn 1990.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Plants & garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden record, vol. 46, no. 3, autumn 1990.
Dye Plants and Dyeing
Author: John F. M. Cannon
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This lucid account of plants from which natural dyes can be obtained will be welcomed not only by all who work with fiber arts but also by botanists.
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
This lucid account of plants from which natural dyes can be obtained will be welcomed not only by all who work with fiber arts but also by botanists.