GROW YOUR OWN COLOUR

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B9781739819743
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Author: Rebecca Desnos
136 pages

Start a dye garden no matter how little space you have, whether it's a window box, balcony or garden.

Experience the joy of growing flowers (and also Japanese indigo!) and use your plants to naturally dye cloth.

This is the book I wish I'd read years ago... so I wrote it for you!

Grow Your Own Colour will show you...

how to start gardening if you’ve never done it before
no-dig gardening methods
starting seeds indoors vs direct sowing in the ground
how to grow, harvest and dye with 9 different dye plants
these plants are covered: Japanese indigo, Hopi Black Dye sunflower, French marigold, African marigold, dyer's chamomile, coreopsis, sulphur cosmos, purple pincushion, hollyhock (and a couple of other bonus types of cosmos).
harvesting & drying flowers
saving seeds & cross-pollination
dyeing projects for your homegrown flowers
bundle dyeing, flower hammering, immersion dyeing (in a dye pot), darkening & painting with iron, modifying the pH of dye
different mordant recipes for silk and cellulose fibres
comparing results from soya milk treated fabric, with aluminium acetate, lactate & sulphate, as well as iron post mordanting & painting
guidelines for choosing the right mordant for your particular project
how to test colour fastness on fabric
where to buy dried flowers if you just can't wait to grow your own!
where to buy seeds (worldwide)