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The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing: Traditional Recipes for Modern Use

The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing: Traditional Recipes for Modern Use

Marc Notes: History of natural dyes and a practical manual for pre-synthetic...;Announced in cloth at $39.95. Biographical Note: The Author: J. N. Liles was professor of zoology at the University...

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Marc Notes:
History of natural dyes and a practical manual for pre-synthetic...;Announced in cloth at $39.95.

Biographical Note:
The Author: J. N. Liles was professor of zoology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He taught at Arrowmont School and other regional craft schools and exhibited his work at the Arrowmont School, the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild Folk Art Center, and the Carol Reece Museum.

Review Quotes:
"What do we like about this book? Everything! It is a superb book--the information, the history, the personal quality, the organization, the size, and the price. . . . If we had room on the shelf for just one dye book, this would be it."--Jerry and Eleanor Workman "Appalachian Heritage"

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"This is the most comprehensive manual written on natural dyes since the early 1800s. Jim Liles has rescued ancient skills from near-extinction and shared them in a book that will inspire, challenge, and guide the modern dyer."--Rita Buchanan, author of A Weaver's Garden and editor of the new Brooklyn Botanic Gardens Handbook on Natural Dyes
" A must for every dyer. The recipes are explicit and detailed as to success and failure."--Mary Frances Davidson

For several thousand years, all dyes were of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin, and many ancient civilizations possessed excellent dye technologies. The first synthetic dye was produced in 1856, and the use of traditional dyes declined rapidly thereafter. By 1915 few nonsynthetics were used by industry or craftspeople. The craft revivals of the 1920s explored traditional methods of natural dyeing to some extent, particularly with wool, although the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dye manuals, which recorded the older processes, remained largely forgotten.

In The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing, J. N. Liles consolidates the lore of the older dyers with his own firsthand experience to produce both a history of natural dyes and a practical manual for using presynthetic era processes on all the natural fibers--cotton, linen, silk, and wool. A general section on dyeing and mordanting and a glossary introduce the beginner to dye technology. In subsequent chapters, Liles summarizes the traditional dye methods available for each major color group. Scores of recipes provide detailed instructions on how to collect ingredients--flowers, weeds, insects, wood, minerals--prepare the dyevat, troubleshoot, and achieve specific shades.

The book will appeal not only to beginning and veteran dyers but also to students of restorations and reconstruction as well as to craftspeople--spinners, quilters, weavers, knitters, and other textile artists--interested in natural dyes for their beauty and historical authenticity.

Author: Liles, J N
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 1990-11-12
BISAC: Technology & Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical|Crafts & Hobbies / Dye|Crafts & Hobbies / Fiber Arts & Textiles
Subjects: Dyes and dyeing, Domestic|Dyes and dyeing|Textile fibers
Weight: 0.81 lbs
ISBN: 9780870496707
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780870496707

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