The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes

Buttery yellow from garden weeds or gorgeous garnet-red dye from flowers — achieving stunning colours for your fabric, wool and other natural materials is almost as easy as boiling water, with ingredients as close as your spice cabinet and as plentiful as fallen leaves on an autumn day. Through step-by-step instructions and colour-saturated photographs, textile designer Sasha Duerr explains the basics of making and using natural plant dyes, from gathering materials and making the dyes to simple ideas for how to use them. Experimenting with colour has never been more tempting to try. Gentle, sustainable, garden-to-garment practices will inspire knitters, sewers and fabric lovers of all stripes to transform fibre, textiles and even pre-loved clothes into works of art — and to have a lot of fun in the process.