The Natural Colors Cookbook: Custom Hues For Your Fabrics Made Simple Using Food - Softcover

Pate, Maggie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1624145876 ISBN 13: 9781624145872

Publisher: Page Street Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

The Essential Manual for Creating Custom Natural Dyes at Home

Discover the wonder of nature’s living colors and transform everyday items with The Natural Colors Cookbook, your guide to creating a spectrum of organic dyes using seasonal produce and leftover food. Now you can bring the timeless form of plant-based dyes to the comfort and familiarity of your own kitchen with the expertise of Maggie Pate, owner and designer of the naturally-dyed clothing label Nåde. Watch in awe as a few hours on the stove extracts a delicate blush tone from a handful of avocado pits, water-soaked black beans release an ashy blue hue and fennel feathers morph into an icy mint. Instead of tossing vegetable trimmings, transform red onion skins into an unexpected olive green, minimizing waste and avoiding harsh chemical dyes.

From selecting among types of natural fibers to mordant and scouring baths, this introduction to hand dyeing covers everything beginners need to know to create a colorful custom palette of textiles. The Natural Colors Cookbook includes simple DIY projects for using your unique dyes, safety tips and precautions, advice for altering hues and instructions for collecting and cataloging colors. It’s an accessible and comprehensive resource every aspiring fiber artist needs.

About this title

About the Author

Maggie Pate began her career in fashion as a model but is now the owner and designer behind Nåde, an independent women’s clothing label featuring her hand-dyed fabrics based in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Maggie teaches sold-out workshops on natural hand-dyeing and weaving. She currently splits her time between Tennessee and New York City.

From the Back Cover

In The Natural Colors Cookbook, the old is new again as hand dyeing fabric comes back into the spotlight with a more organic and natural approach. Maggie Pate will teach readers how to use all natural dyes from beans, berries and other kitchen staples to create custom patterns and vivid colors. As the owner and designer of naturally-dyed clothing label Nåde, Maggie knows what it takes to produce quality and textiles and will share that expertise with readers, showing just how simple it is to create a one-of-a-kind hand-dyed project with a variety of fabrics, including cotton, satin, silk, yarn, fleece and more. The Natural Colors Cookbook will feature step-by-step directions for the dyeing process, as well as simple projects that can be made and then dyed. Maggie?s dye recipes offer an alternative to mainstream chemical fabric dyes and allow readers to create their own custom dye colors that can?t be found in a store, making projects unique and personal. Featuring easy to follow directions and helpful tips and tricks for beginner hand-dyers, The Natural Colors Cookbook has everything readers need to begin creating their own beautiful textiles. Maggie has almost 27k followers on Instagram and 85k followers on Pinterest. This book will have 12 projects and more than 25 custom colors.

Edition details

• Publisher: Page Street Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1624145876
• ISBN 13: 9781624145872
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160