Author : Lynne Richards
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
The dyeing of textiles and other materials is a rewarding and delightful way to bring the colors of nature to daily living. In this fascinating book, the authors have compiled extensive information to bring the techniques, plants, and lore of natural dyeing within every reader s reach."
Author : Anne Bliss
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN :
Handsome line drawings of 126 common, roadside plants are included with tips on how to use them to obtain a range of warm, subtle colors.
Author : Nonabah Gorman Bryan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486421056
Simply written text, accompanied by detailed line illustrations of plants, explains how to select and mix natural colors of wool and prepare "recipes" for producing specific colors of dye from desert plants, among them single-flowered actinea for yellow, alder bark for a soft brown, the Rocky Mountain bee plant for a pale greenish yellow, more.
Author : Rebecca Burgess
Publisher : Artisan Books
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1579654258
"'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 : Daniel E. Moerman
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 927 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780881924534
An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated ethnobotanical knowledge on more than 4000 plants. More than 44,000 uses for these plants by various tribes are documented here. This is undoubtedly the most massive ethnobotanical survey ever undertaken, preserving an enormous store of information for the future.
Author : Nancy J. McGuffin
Publisher : Richmond Hill, Ont. : The Guild
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 25,47 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Dye plants
ISBN : 9780969252009
Author : Frances Densmore
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Cooking
ISBN :
Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs
Author : Jenny Dean
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Colour in textile crafts
ISBN : 9781845335694
Jenny Dean's Wild Colour is the modern classic title on traditional dyeing methods. A celebration of the wealth of natural dyes that can be obtained from over 60 species of plants from common marigolds to rhubarb. Part one introduces the concept of natural dyeing and demonstrates how easy it is to get started. All the techniques are explained with step-by-step sequences and photographs. Colour charts help you to work out which method is best for each dye plant and material.Part two reveals the wide range of plants that you can use for natural dyeing. Colour swatches show the tried and tested range of colours you can extract from each plant.
Author : Dominique Cardon
Publisher : Archetype Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Dyes and dyeing
ISBN : 9781904982005
This book describes some 300 plants and 30 animals (marine mollusks and scale insects) that are used as sources for natural dyes. Botanical or zoological details are given for each source and the chemical structures is shown for each dye. Dyes employed by different civilisations, identified by dye analyses, are illustrated and relevant historical recipes and detailed descriptions of dyeing processes by traditional dyers are quoted and explained in the light of modern science. Other current uses of natural colorants, e.g. in medicine and for food and cosmetics, and replacement of synthetic by natural dyes are also noted.
Author : Karen Diadick Casselman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486412313
Noted textile designer and lichen expert explains how to create and use dyes derived from lichens. Text covers history of the use of lichen pigments, safe dyeing methods, ecologically sound dyeing, and use of mordants, lichen identification, and more. Text also offers a fascinating history of Asian and European lichen pigments, Scottish, Irish, and Scandinavian domestic lichen dyes, and others.
