Grow Your Own Colour

Start a dye garden no matter how little space you have, whether it's a window box, balcony or garden. Experience the joy of growing flowers (and also Japanese indigo!) and use your plants to naturally dye cloth. This is the book I wish I'd read years ago... so I wrote it for you! Grow Your Own Colour will show you... how to start gardening if youve never done it before no-dig gardening methods starting seeds indoors vs direct sowing in the ground how to grow, harvest and dye with 9 different dye plants these plants are covered: Japanese indigo, Hopi Black Dye sunflower, French marigold, African marigold, dyer's chamomile, coreopsis, sulphur cosmos, purple pincushion, hollyhock (and a couple of other bonus types of cosmos). harvesting & drying flowers saving seeds & cross-pollination dyeing projects for your homegrown flowers bundle dyeing, flower hammering, immersion dyeing (in a dye pot), darkening & painting with iron, modifying the pH of dye different mordant recipes for silk and cellulose fibres comparing results from soya milk treated fabric, with aluminium acetate, lactate & sulphate, as well as iron post mordanting & painting guidelines for choosing the right mordant for your particular project how to test colour fastness on fabric where to buy dried flowers if you just can't wait to grow your own! where to buy seeds (worldwide)