The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes: Personalize Your Craft with Organic Colors from Acorns, Blackberries, Coffee, and Other Everyday Ingredients

The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes: Personalize Your Craft with Organic Colors from Acorns, Blackberries, Coffee, and Other Everyday Ingredients

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Buttery yellow from garden weeds or gorgeous garnet-red dye from flowers achieving stunning colors for your fabric, yarn, and other natural materials is almost as easy as boiling water, with ingredients as close as your spice cabinet and as plentiful as fallen leaves on an autumn day.
Through step-by-step instructions and color-saturated photographs, textile designer Sasha...more
Paperback, 171 pages
Published January 19th 2011 by Timber Press (OR) (first published November 21st 2010)
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Alethea
Pretty useful guide, useful for both people with great yards full of natural materials as well as those a bit more urban and nature-challenged. Many ingredients can be purchased at grocery stores and equipment from secondhand shops (or recycling older pots and containers you already have).

I'd like to try some projects from here but won't have time until after I have to return the library book, so I think this will be a buy for me soon! ;)
Ayelet G
A great how-to book on dying with natural ingredients, like onionskins, cabbage, lavendar, turmeric and more. Can't wait to try it out!
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