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The Complete Guide to Natural Dyeing
by Eva Lambert & Tracy Kendall
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Create a rainbow of natural dyes using flowers, leaves, bark, roots,
or insects. The Complete Guide to Natural Dyeing shows you how to to
create stunning colors and designs on yarn and fabric. This
comprehensive guide explains how to collect and preserve natural dyes,
how to prepare your fabric or yarn for the dye bath, how to mix dye
solutions, and how to create beautiful dye resist designs. There is
also a glossary of different types of natural dyes with instructions
to prepare each dye and examples of the possible colors with a range
of mordants.
144 pages | Softcover
Retail: $24.95
Item No. 31336
"Natural dyeing is fascinating to me. You can use leaves, flowers, bark, even bugs to create a vibrant rainbow of colors. You can create so many colors beyond the brown and green earth tones that you would expect. Actually, green is one of the most difficult colors to achieve with natural dyeing, even though you frequently use green leaves as dye materials.
Natural dyeing can seem a little complicated, because each dye can be a different color, the color can change with different mordants, you extract color in different ways, and you use different temperatures and times depending on your dye materials. The Complete Guide to Natural Dyeing is a comprehensive reference book that will tell you exactly how to dye with any natural material that you want. I particularly like the large pictures that show sample skeins dyed with each material, and the different colors that can be achieved with at least four mordants for each dye substance. Natural dyeing isnt hard at all, if you follow the directions from this book." Kate Perry, Marketing Assistant
