Eco Colour Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles

Name: Eco Colour Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles
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ISBN: 9781596683303

ISBN-10: 1596683309

ISBN-13: 9781596683303

Edition: 2010

Authors: India Flint

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Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Interweave Press, LLC
Publication date: 9/14/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.25" wide x 11.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English



Prologue


What this book is for



Before You Begin


Natural Dyes - a context


Discovering dyes


Dyeing and cooking: some links


The true cost of synthetic dyes


Regionalism


A renewable color palette


Collecting Plants - a protocol


Backyards and gardens


What's in a name?


Garbage and windfalls



The Workspace


Equipment and a place to work


Equipment


Storing samples


On the Road


Harvesting and storing plants for dyeing


Safe practices



Natural Dyestuffs


Some traditional dye materials


The edible dye garden



Preparing, Processing and Applying Dyes


Preparing to dye


Treating the fiber before dyeing


Animal Fibers


Plant fibers


Mordants


Wool


Cotton


Silk


Looking for alternatives


Tannin


Protein


Alkalis


Acids


Metals


Method of mordant assessment


Pre-mordants


Processing plant dyes


Dye application processes


Some curiosities to be derived from sequential extractions



Some Special Dyeplant Groups


Eucalyptus dyes


Beyond the eucalyptus


Ice-flower dyes


Process


Variations


Plants to try


Fruits and berries



Special Effects


Cold-bundled eco-prints


Fixing the color


What next?


Non-eucalyptus eco-prints using hot-bundling


Hapa-zome - beating color into cloth


Dyeing wool yarn and silver


Basic procedure


Dyeing multicolored yarns and silver in a microwave oven


Multicolored yarns using scrap metals and plant dyes


Multicolored yarns


Printing with plant dyes


Using shibori techniques and layered dyeing


Hexagonal or honeycomb patterns


Tartan patterns


Checkerboard patterns


Multicolored fabrics


Resists


Block printing


Batik - wax resist


Egg


Solar Dyeing


Process


Mud and cow patties


Mud


Cow patties



Some Other Considerations


The importance of water


The importance of time


Caring for cloth


Silk


Wool


Cotton, linen, ramie and hemp


Disposal of wastes


Liquids


Vegetable matter



References


Further reading


Websites


Index


About the Author


Acknowledgements