The Wild Dyer: A Maker’s Guide to Natural Dyes with Projects to Create and Stitch by Abigail Booth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Dedication Copyright Contents Introduction Natural color Dye plants & where to find them

In the Kitchen Growing Your Own Wild Foraging Storing Dyestuff

A dyer’s tools & workbench Tools Understanding & preparing fabric

Protein vs. Cellulose Scouring Fabric Mordanting Fabric Alum Mordant Iron Mordant

Setting up a dye vat

Preparing Dyestuffs Fruit and Vegetable Skins Leaves and Roots Flowers and Berries Nuts, Cones, and Bark Brewing a Vat

Haberdashery & textile care

Textile Care

In the Kitchen

A kitchen palette

Coffee Grounds: Coffea Yellow Onion: Allium cepa Red Onion: Allium cepa Black Tea: Camellia sinensis Red Cabbage: Brassica oleracea Avocado: Persea americana Black Beans: Phaseolus vulgaris

Hand-stitched coasters Patchwork place mats

The Dyer’s Garden

A dyer’s harvest

Dyer’s Coreopsis: Coreopsis tinctoria Weld: Reseda luteola Madder: Rubia tinctorum Woad: Isatis tinctoria Black-Eyed Susan: Rudbeckia hirta Rhubarb: Rheum rhabarbarum Comfrey: Symphytum officinale

Growing plants from seed Sowing Germination Planting Harvesting Harvest bag Gardener’s smock

Dyeing with woad & madder Woad Vat Madder Vat

Summer Foraging

Shades of summer

Hawthorn: Crataegus monogyna Garden Sorrel: Rumex acetosa Nettle: Urtica dioica Bracken: Pteridium aquilinum Rose Hips: Rosa canina Elderberries: Sambucus nigra Blackthorn: Prunus spinosa Blackberries: Rubus fruticosus

Dyer’s apron Foraging bag

Autumn Foraging

Tones of autumn

Alder Cones: Alnus species Acorns & Oak Galls: Quercus species Willow: Salix alba Copper Beech: Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea Walnuts: Juglans species Mountain Ash: Sorbus aucuparia Eucalyptus: Eucalyptus species Birch Bark: Betula pendula

Patchwork cushions Strip-pieced blanket

Oak gall ink

Reference

List of dye plants

Yellow Green Blue Purple Black Pink/red Orange Brown

Glossary Resources Index Last words