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Buttery yellow from garden weeds or gorgeous garnet-red dye from flowers - achieving stunning colours for your fabric, yarn, and other natural materials is almost as easy as boiling water, with ingredients as close as your spice cabinet and as plentiful as fallen leaves on an autumn day. Through step-by-step instructions and colour-saturated photographs, textile designer Sasha Duerr explains the basics of making and using natural plant dye, from gathering materials and making the dyes to simple ideas for how to use them. Have a picnic on a sunny turmeric-yellow tablecloth, give a baby some adorable acorn-dipped booties, craft a set of stunning black-walnut pillows, or treat yourself to a little black(berry) dress. Experimenting with colour has never been more tempting to try. Gentle, sustainable, garden-to-garment practices will inspire knitters, sewers, and fabric lovers of all stripes to transform fibre, textiles, and even pre-loved clothes into works of art - and to have a lot of fun in the process.

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This attractive, user-friendly guide will delight many a do-it-yourselfer. --Booklist Ideal for those who love the artful side of both gardening and crafting. --American Reference Books Annual A true cornucopia of slow fashion goodness and 'soil to studio' guidance. --Eco Salon Sasha has the background knowledge and experience to make this book one you will refer to repeatedly. Experienced dyers will find what [Duer] has to say informative. --The Hartford Examiner The only book you would ever need to spend weeks or months or years exploring the latent possibilities of the plants you find in your own environment as sources of rich and wondrous color. What a gift! --Plant Whatever Brings You Joy An absolute must have for fashion and textile artists, designers, students and educators. --Social Alterations For anyone interested in exploring natural dyes, The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes is a must-have. --Curbly.com An expertly written and beautifully photographed book. --Oklahoman

An expertly written and beautifully photographed book.--Anne McCollam Oklahoman

This attractive, user-friendly guide will delight many a do-it-yourselfer. Booklist Ideal for those who love the artful side of both gardening and crafting. Shannon Hysell, American Reference Books Annual A true cornucopia of slow fashion goodness and soil to studio guidance. Eco Salon Sasha has the background knowledge and experience to make this book one you will refer to repeatedly. Experienced dyers will find what [Duer] has to say informative. The Hartford Examiner The only book you would ever need to spend weeks or months or years exploring the latent possibilities of the plants you find in your own environment as sources of rich and wondrous color. What a gift! Plant Whatever Brings You Joy An absolute must have for fashion and textile artists, designers, students and educators. Social Alterations For anyone interested in exploring natural dyes, The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes is a must-have. Curbly.com An expertly written and beautifully photographed book. Anne McCollam, Oklahoman

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Sasha Duerr is an innovative artist and designer who works with organic dyes, alternative fibres and the creative reuse of materials.

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