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Harvesting Color: How To Find Plants And Make Natural Dyes (2011)

by Rebecca Burgess(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1579654258 (ISBN13: 9781579654252)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Artisan

review 1: This book is beautiful and provides a straightforward approach to dyeing natural fibers with plant materials. There were a couple layout errors in the text part of the book that bothered me because it appeared some information might have been cut. I loved the inclusion of information on the Navajo dye tradition as well as information on where to find the plant materials (many of which can be found within miles of my house here in California - yay!). I will definitely buy this book for myself. Burgess really knows her stuff and this will be a great reference book to keep around.
review 2: Loved this book! It is full of gorgeous pictures and so much information about natural dyeing. There are plant descriptions, harvesting instructions, dye recipes, resources, et... morec. There are several plants that are plentiful on our farm, and I'm hoping to plant some of the others in the garden next year. I'm so excited about applying this info when I start learning how to dye yarn. :){P.S. There are more plants listed for California and the west coast in general, which was slightly disappointing since I'm in Virginia. But overall, there was a good balance of plants across the US. I did find the occasional old earth philosophy annoying, like mentions of evolution or that a certain plant predates humans by 295 million years or something like that.} less

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