Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles

Flint, India

ISBN 10: 1596683309 / ISBN 13: 9781596683303

Published by Krause Craft, 2010

About this Item

Handsomely illustrated with hand-dyed textiles. A clean copy in bright covers. A little wear at spend ends and gentle bumps to corners. Half-jacket has creasing to front. Oversize. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca Library.

Seller Inventory # 046322

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles
• Publisher: Krause Craft
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596683309
• ISBN 13: 9781596683303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Friends of the Albany Library
  • Textiles

About this title

Synopsis

The essence of plants bursts forth in magnificent hues and surprising palettes. Using dyes of the leaves, roots, and flowers to color your cloth and yarn can be an amazing journey into botanical alchemy. In Eco Colour, artistic dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you how to cull and use this gentle and ecologically sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes.

India explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant color using a wide variety of techniques and recipes. From whole-dyed cloth and applied color to prints and layered dye techniques, India describes only ecologically sustainable plant-dye methods. She uses renewable resources and shows how to do the least possible harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a number of entirely new processes developed by India, as well as guidelines for plant collection, directions for the distillation of nontoxic mordants, and methodologies for applying plant dyes.

Eco Colour inspires both the home dyer and textile professional seeking to extend their skills using India's successful methods.

About the Author

India Flint is a designer, artist, writer, and sheep farmer. Her work has been greatly influenced by her extensive travels--from Melbourne to rural Austria to Montreal. She is known for the development of the highly distinctive eco-print, an ecologically sustainable plant-based printing process giving brilliant color to cloth. Flint has been working with plant dyes for more than twenty years, and she has artwork in a myriad of collections and museums in Australia, Latvia, and Germany. She currently lives in South Australia.