Natural Dyes

Hermine Lathrop-Smit provides 36 easy to follow recipes for turning common Canadian plants such as marigolds, onions and lily of the valley into a wide range of beautiful and unique colours from burnt oranges to subtle pinks and smoky greys. Organized by colour, the recipes give brief descriptions of the plants to be used and their habitats as well as instructions on how to produce the final dyed material. Natural Dyes also includes sections on mordants, equipment, collecting, drying and storing the various plants.Lathrop-Smit, Hermine is the author of 'Natural Dyes', published 1978 under ISBN 9780888622273 and ISBN 0888622279.