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Author
Publisher
Artisan
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"'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 botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow yourself,...
Author
Publisher
Rocky Nook
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Create colorful masterpieces with the official guide to using Unicorn SPiT! Unicorn SPiT is a paint, gel stain, and glaze concentrate all in one bottle! It creates a multifaceted, 3-dimensional effect on wood, glass, metal, fabric, pottery, wicker, concrete, laminate, and more. Fans love that it's nontoxic and comes in a variety of outrageous colors. Now, for the first time, Unicorn SPiT inventor Michelle Nicole spills the secrets about the best...
3) A beginner's guide to dyeing & sewing: 12 step-by-step lessons and 21 projects to get you started
Author
Publisher
Search Press Limited
Pub. Date
2018, 2016
Description
Whether you're looking to refresh, transform or personalise your clothing, soft furnishings or fabric accessories, or to dye fabric so that you can create brand-new items, this book has you covered. This simple but rich and informative book contains everything you need to know to start dyeing. It shows you how to create 12 dazzling dye effects - from tie-dyeing and dip-dyeing to creating checks, lines, droplets and bubbles - and then shows you how...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This picture book follows one color's journey throughout history--from ancient Afghan painters to 1905, when a chemical blue dye was created--and around the world, as it becomes the blue we know today.
Author
Publisher
Hardie Grant Books (London)
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
A complete guide to modern dyeing with simple projects, techniques and troubleshooting. Natural Dyeing explores the versatility of plant-based dyes, from understanding, choosing and preparing your fiber for dyeing to foraging for your dyes and the different dyeing methods used.
11) Indigo dying
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Description
National best-selling author and resident of Texas, Susan Wittig Albert pens a quirky, but chilling mystery. When Casey Ford threatens to sell his property to a strip mining company, the townsfolk fear that Indigo will be lost forever. Protecting the town is important-so important that someone is willing to kill Casey to keep their home from being ruined. Now, in addition to running the town's cultural crusade, China Bayles must find Casey's murderer....
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Award-winning journalist Alden Wicker breaks open a story hiding in plain sight: the unregulated toxic chemicals that are likely in your wardrobe right now, how they're harming you, and what you can do about it. In To Dye For, Wicker reveals how clothing manufacturers have successfully swept consumers' concerns under the rug for more than 150 years, and why synthetic fashion and dyes made from fossil fuels are so deeply intertwined with the rise...
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Many years ago, the color purple was available only to a privileged few because the process was very complicated and expensive. Then in 1856, a boy named William Henry Perkin was testing a hypothesis about a cure for malaria and found that his experiment resulted in something else--something vivid and rare for the times: synthetic purple. Perkin, a pioneer of the modern scientific method, made numerous advances possible, including canned food and...
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