A Garden to Dye For
How to Use Plants from the Garden to Create Natural Colors for Fabrics & Fibers
$53.19
- Hardcover
160 pages
- Release Date
30 April 2014
Summary
Home-grown botanical dyes are in, and they’re part of today’s shift toward natural and organic living. “A new generation discovers grow-it-yourself dyes,” says the New York Times. And you don’t have to have a degree in chemistry to create your own natural dyes. It just takes a garden plot and a kitchen.
A Garden to Dye For shows how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer’s garden and create beautiful dyes. Many of these plants may already be in your cutting, cottage or food garde…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780985562281 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0985562285 |
| Author: | Chris McLaughlin |
| Publisher: | St. Lynn's Press |
| Imprint: | St. Lynn's Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 30 April 2014 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 177mm x 177mm |
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Critics Review
“Many of the artists and crafters I know are also avid gardeners, so “A Garden to Dye For” is likely to strike a cord with creative types.”
If you love the outdoors and creating, we found your new favorite book: A Garden to Dye For: How to Use Plants from the Garden to Create Natural Colors for Fabrics and Fibers by Chris McLaughlin!Of course, one can argue that natural plant-based dyes are as traditional as it gets. But in the modern world, ready-made synthetic dyes have become the norm. It’s so easy to step into a craft store and find a rainbow of powdered and liquid dyes. However, if you’re a crafty person who appreciates nature, this title is for you.Even if you don’t have a green thumb, her book provides enough guidance and encouragement to get you going. And if you do? It’s an amazing, informative encyclopedia that’s sure to become a staple in your garden. – Kirsten Nunez
If you are a keen gardener and a nervous would-be-dyer, interested in safe natural dyeing project to do with children, then this fun and attractive book will help you select a few plants, get necessary equipment together, mordant if necessary, and start dyeing using cold water, hot water or solar dyeing methods.
This is an inspiring, and distinctive book. Every homesteader, homeschooler, crafter, gardener, educator, and fibre artist owes it to themselves to grab this book and a cup of chai and breathe deeply of the inspiration, joy, and stimulation that exudes from every page. The book is aesthetically beautiful as if each page was dipped in a dye vat and then salted to spray the colour, like elderberry blossoms, across the page – joybileefarm
Chris McLaughlin
Chris McLaughlin is a California garden writer and author with over 35 years of gardening experience, earning her Master Gardener certification in 2000.
She serves as the home agriculture editor for From Scratch magazine, a staff columnist at Vegetable Gardener.com, and the Homesteading Guide at About.com. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Urban Farm, Hobby Farm Home, The Heirloom Gardener, The Herb Companion, and Fine Gardening.
Chris is the author of several books, including:
- “Vertical Vegetable Gardening”
- “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Small-Space Gardening”
- “Hobby Farms: Small-Scale Rabbit Keeping”
- “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Heirloom Vegetables”
- “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Composting”
- “A Garden to Dye For”
She and her family reside in the foothills of Northern California’s gold country on a hobby farm populated with numerous animals, including fiber animals and a diverse collection of natural dye plants. When she is not writing, gardening, dyeing, hand-spinning, tending to her animals, or spending time with her grandchildren, she is involved with her community project, The Mother Lode Seed Library in Placerville, California.
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