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Garden to Dye For: How to Use Plants from the Garden to Create Natural Colors for Fabrics & Fibers by Chris McLaughlin

Chris McLaughlin . Unknown Year . English

Home-grown botanical dyes are in, and they're part of today's shift toward natural and organic living. "A new generation discovers grow-it-yourself dyes," says the New York Times. And you don't have to have a degree in chemistry to create your own natural dyes. It just takes a garden plot and a kitchen. A Garden to Dye For shows how super-simple it is to plant and grow a dyer's garden and create beautiful dyes. Many of these plants may already be in our cutting, cottage or food gardens, ready for double duty. These special plants can fit right in with traditional garden themes. A Garden to Dye For features 40-plus plants that the gardener-crafter can grow for an all-natural, customized color palette. A dyer's garden can be a mosaic of flowers, herbs, roots and fruits that lend us their pigments to beautify other areas of our lives. The richly photographed book is divided between the garden and the dye process, with garden layouts, plant profiles, dye extraction and uses, step-by-step recipes and original, engaging DIY projects. This is the book that bridges the topic of plant dyes to mainstream gardeners, the folks who enjoy growing the plants as much as using them in craft projects.

Categories: Nutrition & Food

About the Author

Chris McLaughlin is a writer and author whose hands have been in the soil for over 45 years. She became a master gardener in 2000, followed up with specialy certificates in wildlife, children's, and vegetable gardening. She's the author of nine books including, Raising Animals for Fiber (Companion Books), Growing Heirloom Flowers (Cool Springs Press), A Garden to Dye For (St. Lynn's Press), Vertical Vegetable Gardening (Alpha Books), and her current one, The Good Garden (Island Press). Her work can be found in Fine Gardening Magazine, Hobby Farm Home Magazine, Urban Farm Magazine, The Heirloom Gardener Magazine, and Mother Earth Living. Chris has written for a variety of online websites including Finegardening.com, Vegetable Gardener.com, About.com, Fix.com, and From Scratch Magazine. Her current book, The Good Garden: How to Nurture Pollinators, Soil, Native Wildlife, and Healthy Food -- All in Your Own Backyard, is to be released in February 2023. Chris and her family live on a flower and fiber farm in the Northern California foothills where they practice sustainable flower, food, and wildlife gardening, as well as raise Colored Angora goats. You can track her down at her website, laughingcrowco.com.

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