Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles

Description

The essence of crops bursts forth in outstanding shades and unexpected palettes. The use of dyes of the leaves, roots, and plant life to paint your material and yarn can also be an important adventure into botanical alchemy. In Eco Colour, inventive dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you the way to cull and use this delicate and ecologically sustainable selection to artificial dyes.

India explores the attention-grabbing and infinitely variable global of plant colour The use of all kinds of tactics and recipes. From entire-dyed material and implemented colour to prints and layered dye tactics, India describes best ecologically sustainable plant-dye strategies. She makes use of renewable tools and presentations the way to do the least imaginable hurt to the dyer, the tip consumer of the item, and the surroundings. Recipes come with quite a lot of fully new approaches advanced via India, in addition to tips for plant assortment, instructions for the distillation of riskless mordants, and methodologies for making use of plant dyes.

Eco Colour conjures up each the house dyer and fabric skilled looking for to increase their abilities The use of India’s a hit strategies.
Hardcover
238 pages.