Natural Dyeing (Gaia Traditional Crafts)

By Jackie Crook

Book Overview

For thousands of years, natural dyes have been celebrated for their subtlety and diversity--and, thanks to contemporary concerns about chemicals and toxins, their popularity is surging again.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856752801
• ISBN13: 9781856752800
• Release Date: January 1880
• Publisher: Gaia
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.4" x 0.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

In response to the previous comments . . .

I bought this book more for the information about the cleaning, mordanting and dyeing processes described in the beginning of the book. And I must say the photography is brilliant. As for obtaining the dyes, I use dye extracts from Table Rock Llamas in Colorado. They offer over 30 colors, including the exotics shown in "Natural Dyeing" (they don't sell toxic mordants). But if I want to grow my own dye plants, I rely on "A Dyer's Garden" by Rita Buchanan, a fantastic little book that gives growing info, dye recipies and results, and a supplier's list to obtain plants and seeds. Finally, I will experiment if I want to see what color a particular plant might give -- I hear bindweed, a noxious weed where I live, gives brilliant greens . . .