Author: Rebecca Desnos Publisher: ISBN: 9780995556683 Category : Dye plants Languages : en Pages : 110
Book Description
Plant Dye Zine is a collection of botanical dye projects. Learn how to make paint and ink from plants, bundle dye with flowers, pound plants onto fabric, eco-print with leaves, start a dye garden, and more!
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.
Author: Ann Frischkorn Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc ISBN: 9781571201164 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
Explains how to transfer pigment from fresh flowers directly onto specially treated muslin; includes instructions for eight projects and advice on starting a variety of others.
Author: Babs Behan Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing ISBN: 1787132870 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 380
Book Description
Learn how to transform foraged wild plants, plants, garden produce and recycled food into dyes and inks with Botanical Inks. The book shows you how to extract environmentally sustainable colour from the landscape and use it to create natural dyes for textiles, clothing, paper and other materials. Botanical Inks covers dyeing and surface application techniques, including bundle dyeing, Shibori tie-dyeing, hapazome, indigo sugar vat dyeing, wood-block printing, screen printing and more. And it also shows you how to turn your new inks, dyes and technique knowledge into wonderful projects, from a simple bundle-dyed a scarf to a block-printed tote bag. The process of turning plants into print can help you reconnect with nature, find a creative outlet and develop a mindful sense of presence. It also promotes an awareness of sustainable practices and how to reduce our impact on the planet.
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
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.
Author: India Flint Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1596683309 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 241
Book Description
The essence of plants bursts forth in magnificent hues and surprising palettes. Using dyes of the leaves, roots, and flowers to color your cloth and yarn can be an amazing journey into botanical alchemy. In Eco Colour, artistic dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you how to cull and use this gentle and ecologically sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes. India explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant color using a wide variety of techniques and recipes. From whole-dyed cloth and applied color to prints and layered dye techniques, India describes only ecologically sustainable plant-dye methods. She uses renewable resources and shows how to do the least possible harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a number of entirely new processes developed by India, as well as guidelines for plant collection, directions for the distillation of nontoxic mordants, and methodologies for applying plant dyes. Eco Colour inspires both the home dyer and textile professional seeking to extend their skills using India's successful methods.
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.
Author: John F. M. Cannon Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: Category : Dye plants Languages : en Pages : 140
Book Description
This text gives an account of a wide range of plants from which natural dyes can be produced, as well as providing a general introduction to dyeing using natural materials. The authors have selected 48 plants from different parts of the world, describing each plants structure and cultivation, the history of its use as a dye source, and the method by which the dye is extracted and transferred to fibre. Well-known dye-plants are included, among them dyer's alkanet, elderberry, henna, indigo, madder and saffron, and each plant is illustrated in colour. It also includes a general introduction on dye-stuffs and mordants, a section of notes for teachers and a checklist for scientific names.
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