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Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles

By India Flint

ISBN: 978-1741960792

Eco Colour: Environmentally Sustainable Dyes, by internationally renowned dyer, costumier and artist India Flint, draws on her two decades of experience and experimentation in natural dyeing techniques to present an expert, highly accessible and achievable handbook of ecologically sustainable plant dye methods using renewable resources, most of which can be found in the average home garden.

Eco Colour fills a gap in the existing literature and uses an exciting range of projects to demonstrate a variety of techniques, some of them entirely new processes developed by the author.

Projects range from the simplest imaginable, such as solar dyeing, in which the fabric and dye material are placed in a closed jar and left for a few weeks in a sunny spot, to the positively romantic including dyeing with ‘ice-flowers’.

The result is a boundless range of pure, gentle, natural colours produced with the least possible harm to the environment and the dyer.

WHAT WE THOUGHT

This is a beautiful book for the fashion lover or crafty girl. The writer, India Flint has been using plant dyes for over 20 years, and her knowledge on the subject is amazing.

Using all natural ingredients you will learn how to dye fabric, while being kind to the environment.

This guide is quite detailed, and would be suitable for beginner to intermediate dyer. By using parts of flora and fauna, there is no limit to the designs you can create.

Even if you never use any of these methods, this is such a gorgeous book to look at, you will want to have it in your collection.

You will never look at gardening the same way again!

Available from all good bookstores.