Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles

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Hardcover
238 pages.

Description

The essence of plants bursts forth in magnificent hues and surprising palettes. The use of dyes of the leaves, roots, and flowers to color your cloth and yarn may also be a terrific journey into botanical alchemy. In Eco Colour, artistic dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you methods to cull and use this gentle and ecologically sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes.

India explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant color The use of all kinds 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 methods to do the least conceivable harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a variety of entirely new processes developed by India, in addition to guidelines for plant collection, directions for the distillation of nontoxic mordants, and methodologies for applying plant dyes.

Eco Colour inspires both the house dyer and textile professional searching for to extend their skills The use of India’s successful methods.

Hardcover
238 pages.

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