Author: Jenny Dean
To create an infinite variety of beautiful natural colours on wool, silk, cotton and other yarns and materials you can use a host of flowers, leaves, barks and roots, from dahlias and safflower to onion skins and turmeric.
Expert dyer Jenny Dean shows you haw to dye at home, using simple equipment. There is helpful advice on the mordanting process that will fix the colours, and guidance on light-fastness, plus instructions on how to use traditional dyestuff such as woad, indigo, weld and madder.
