McLaughlin, Chris
Summary: A Garden to Dye For shows how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer's garden and create beautiful botanical dyes. Features include 40-plus plants that the gardener-crafter can grow for an all-natural, customized color palette. A dyer's garden can be a mosaic of flowers, herbs, roots and fruits that lend us their pigments to beautify other areas of our lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Lynn's Press 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: Interweave Press 1995
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Summary: "Colors don't come out of nothing. They always start somewhere... With something... With someone. Discover how color is harnessed from nature in this survey of dyes and pigments from around the world. Organized by color-from yellow to purple to red and more-Before Colors marries a lyrical core text with tons of informational material for curious readers. In the narrative text, readers will...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2023
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Summary: "For centuries, blue powders and dyes were some of the most sought-after materials in the world. Ancient Afghan painters ground mass quantities of sapphire rocks to use for their paints, while snails were harvested in Eurasia for the tiny amounts of blue that their bodies would release. And then there was indigo, which was so valuable that American plantations grew it as a cash crop on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lark Books 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.1 HECOrenstein, Peggy
Summary: The author sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023