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Natural Color
  • Author : Sasha Duerr
  • Release Date : 23 August 2016
  • Publisher : Watson-Guptill
  • Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
  • Pages : 272
  • ISBN 13 : 9781607749370
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Book Description: A beautiful book of seasonal projects for using the brilliant spectrum of colors derived from plants to naturally dye your clothing and home textiles. Organized by season, Natural Color is a beautifully photographed guide to the full range of plant dyes available, drawn from commonly found fruits, flowers, trees, and herbs, with accompanying projects. Using sustainable methods and artisinal techniques, designer, artist, and professor Sasha Duerr details achievable ways to apply these limitless color possibilities to your home and wardrobe. Whether you are new to dyeing or more practiced, Duerr's clear and simple ingredients lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed breakouts on techniques such as shibori, dip-dye, and block printing will ensure beautiful results. With recipes to dye everything from dresses and sweaters to rugs and napkins, Natural Color will inspire fashion enthusiasts, home decorators, textile lovers, and everyone else who wants to bring more color into their life.

Natural Color

Natural Color

Author : Sasha Duerr
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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A beautiful book of seasonal projects for using the brilliant spectrum of colors derived from plants to naturally dye your clothing and home textiles. Organized by season, Natural Color is a beautifully photographed guide to the full range of plant dyes available, drawn from commonly found fruits, flowers, trees, and ...

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Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Random House
Genre : Art
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Natural Palettes

Natural Palettes

Author : Sasha Duerr
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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Renowned natural dyer, artist, and educator Sasha Duerr envisions a new age of fresh, modern color palettes, drawing from our original source of inspiration and ingredients—the natural world around us. This innovative plant-based color-guide includes twenty-five palettes with five hundred natural color swatches, providing inspiration for sustainable fashion, textiles, ...

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Author : Christine Shahin
Publisher : Storey Publishing
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Author : Patrick Baty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Genre : Art
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A gorgeous expanded edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, a landmark reference book on color and its origins in nature First published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomically organized guide to color in the natural world. Compiled by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner, the book was expanded and ...

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
Genre : Nature
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Harvesting Color

Harvesting Color

Author : Rebecca Burgess
Publisher : Artisan Books
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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"'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases thre dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating ...

Wild Colour

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Author : Jenny Dean
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Dye plants
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Jenny Dean's Wild Colour is the modern classic title on traditional dyeing methods. A celebration of the wealth of natural dyes that can be obtained from over 60 species of plants from common marigolds to rhubarb. Part one introduces the concept of natural dyeing and demonstrates how easy it is to ...

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Author : Kristine Vejar,Adrienne Rodriguez,Sarah Ollikkalla Jones
Publisher : Abrams
Genre : Crafts & Hobbies
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“Beautifully written as part travel memoir and part dyeing handbook . . . you are handed a wealth of knowledge in one book.” —Little Acorn Creations Similar to cooking and the act of sharing meals, our relationship to textiles is a core tenet of our human experience. Creating textiles cultivates connection, belonging, community, ...

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Author : Crystal Swain-Bates,Janine Carrington
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Uncategorized
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In "Color My Fro," 31 big-haired fairies, mermaids, warriors, models, cheerleaders, and fierce divas grace the pages of this coloring book celebrating the beauty of black women and natural hair. At each turn of the page, a new natural hair inspired illustration greets you. Fun for any occasion, "Color My Fro" ...

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Author : Zoe Keller
Publisher : Timber Press
Genre : Games & Activities
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Relax and reconnect in the pages of this coloring adventure! In the whimsical pages of Color the Natural World you can wander from temperate forests and oceans to deserts and prairies. You’ll meet a host of intricately-drawn animals and birds, like the northern pygmy-owl of the Pacific Northwest forest, ...

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Genre : Science
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