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"The dyeing of textiles and other materials is a rewarding and delightful way to bring the colors of nature to daily living. In our technological age, dyes from plants offer subtle and diverse hues unavailable from synthetic dyestuffs. They connect practitioners to the environment as well as to the crafts and history of our ancestors. Dyes from native plants offer a special source of satisfaction and beauty. In this fascinating book, the authors have...
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Color Transfer is filled with clear, informative demonstrations and in-process photographs of the techniques Senter has developed. The book presents unique properties of water-based markers, liquid watercolors, rice paper, and other painting surfaces essential to the color transfer method. Specific procedures for working with these materials are shown in subsequent sections: marker and ink application; the use of water and bleach to manipulate color;...
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This straightforward discussion of the different ways of dyeing and painting fabric includes in-depth instructions for equipping and running a productive dye shop, with a special section on shop safety and the safe use of chemicals in the workplace. A variety of processes are covered, such as: using resists and discharge pastes, metallic paints, leather dyes, expandable paints, heat transfer printing, marbling, ombre, blueprint and brownprint, stencils,...
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"Persian blue, pomegranate flower, spiny lobster, wine soup, pale flesh, dove breast, golden wax, grass green, green sand, rotten olive, modest plum, agate, rich French gray, gunpowder of the English...these are just some of the colour names of old fabric to fire the imagination. The Dyer's Handbook concerns a unique manuscript from the eighteenth century; a dyers memoirs from Languedoc, containing recipes for dyes with corresponding colour samples....
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Wicker breaks open a story hiding in plain sight: the unregulated toxic chemicals that are likely in your wardrobe right now, how they're harming you, and what you can do about it. The author reveals how clothing manufacturers have successfully swept consumers' concerns under the rug for more than 150 years, and why synthetic fashion and dyes made from fossil fuels are so deeply intertwined with the rise of autoimmune disease, infertility, asthma,...
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