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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.
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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful in presentation and attitude,
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This review is from: Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles (Hardcover)
I purchased this book because I wanted to be able to understand how to take a natural plant and use it's color for dying cloth. I am not a cloth colorist or cloth designer. I use and make mine as I need them for my work.This is a comprehensive book and is best understood by naturists or those familiar with the processes, not for a beginner by no means! It's a lot of book and I felt it was focused more on the indigenous plants of Australia and not something from my own North American environment, which was a bit naive on my part because I did read the introduction. Perhaps I purchased it out of my wanting to be a part of the solution to the environment and not one of the problems. I have given this book to a fellow textile artist that dyes her own wools and would definitely appreciate this body of work.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A dream of a book,
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This review is from: Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles (Hardcover)
This book is a dream. It's like taking a walk through the authors studio, or owning her sample book. It is invaluable to the natural dye artisan and the do-it-yourself-ers alike.
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4.3 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews) 31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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Ecological Delights,
By C. Reed "Spinning Teacher" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles (Hardcover)
This book has made me take a second look at botanical dyes. This is not a recipe book. Ms. Flint opens up your eyes to all of the dye stuffs in your neighborhood. Like the slow food movement, she advises getting dyestuff close to home. She shares basic principals for getting the color out of common plants. She describes ways to fix color to silk, wool and cellulose fabrics and spinning fibers. She cuts out the nasty metallic salts as mordants by adding time and not always using heat. Her plants and dyes need to cure or age with the cloth. What that means is that a few minutes are spent applying the color and then you set the cloth aside for days or even months before you finish the process. This could work quite well in my busy life. Her philosophy is captured in one of her tips about hapazome, beating plants on cloth to color them. This technique is not as colorfast as the other techniques. But she tells us to embrace this. Decorate a garment in the spring with those flowers and leaves. As the design fades, add to it with summer blossoms and refresh the fabric again in the fall for an ever-changing fabric.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lush, practical,
By Margaret Kennedy - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles (Hardcover)
Impressed with the cover I ordered Eco Colour at Amazon. Australia based India Flint is obviously a gifted textile artist and colorist. This is a lushly beautiful book you can spend hours pouring through, but it is also a practical guide to natural dye for fabric, wool yarn and sliver with an emphasis on safety.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful book, lots of info,
By M. Fregia "Lmzmuffet" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles (Hardcover)
This book has a wealth of gorgeous photography and tons of information on coloring with botanicals. If I stopped there, it would get 5 stars.The main drawback is that the book's organization is awkward, requiring much study and flipping around to figure out how best to use the botanicals at your disposal. To be fair, much of the information is complicated, making it hard to organize; and there is a good index to help you find that stray sentence you need. If you are willing to plow through and experiment, Eco Colour is a great foundation and inspiration. There are actually a couple "recipes" for quick and easy eco-prints, but patience is still required (the author advises waiting a week to open that lovely bundle of now-rosy silk I tinted with red onion skins!) When you try the flower pounding, please do take the author's advice to make a trial, even if you have limited plant material to work with! :-) One thing the reader should not miss is that the author admitted drawing during chemistry class! She mentions early in the book the reliable color results that can be obtained using certain chemicals, without the specific caution that these are quite toxic, cautions she does, however, repeat concerning plants that are poisonous, etc. (Please be sure to look up an MSDS if you are tempted to order any chrome salts, etc.) One of the most helpful things to me was the extensive information on the friendlier mordants, which ones are useful on which types of fiber, and how various ones may affect the final colors you will achieve. We benefit also from little tricks she has learned, such as freezing certain flowers or berries to extract the most color. (Spent blossoms are in the freezer now and will be my next project.) I was fascinated with her ingenuity in figuring out how to dye "on the road" with botanicals encountered while traveling. While chemical dyes (such as Procion MX) are safe, much easier, more predictable, wash- and light-fast, there is a definite allure to trying to capture the beauty of the plants around us to color our clothing and other fabrics, even if it is fleeting. Eco Colour is a great book for your adventure. |
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