Dyeing is a traditional craft that is easy to learn. It’s the perfect hobby when it comes to experimenting with color and exploring the different results that can be achieved with natural dyes on a wide range of fibres, yarns and fabrics in wool, cotton and silk. This informative book shows how easy and at the same time exciting it is to prepare dye baths and dye natural fibers yourself. The author shows how fabrics and fibers have to be prepared and explains the three most important techniques of vegetable dyeing in easy-to-understand illustrated instructions: hot dyeing, cold dyeing and vat dyeing. Based on 30 projects, you will learn how an almost infinite variety of colors can be elicited from the most diverse flowers and trees, leaves, roots, fruits and vegetables. The dyeing recipes with color samples, detailed information on all the plants presented and last but not least the fascinating close-ups of dyed fabrics and fibers tempt you to make everyday life more colorful with natural colors in the future.

• Isbn 978-3-258-07268-5
• Ean 9783258072685
• Author Jackie Crook
• Editor Haupt Verlag
• Language de_CH