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- A brief bibliography for vegetable dyers with an interest in historical
- applications:
- Dyeing & Dyestuffs by Su Grierson, Shire Album #229,
- Dye Plants & Dyeing Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record Vol 20 No. 3 #46
- Dyes From Nature, ed by Rita Buchanan Brookltyn Botanic Garden, Vol 46,
- No. 2, summer 1990.
- Previous three are inexpensive but packed with excellent info. Next two
- are excellent, but big hardbacks, both available from Interweave Press,
- Loveland, Colorado:
- A Weaver's Garden by Rita Buchanan
- The Colour Cauldron, by Su Grierson
- All still readily available at the usual sources ╔
- Deborah
-
- For references, you can also try Lichens for Vegetable Dyeing by Eileen
- Bolton. It╒s been out of print for a while, but Robin and Russ is
- reprinting it this year. Also check back Spin.Offs: Michelle
- Wipplinger-- ╥Lichens╙ SpinÑOff (Summer 1986), page 34. Ida Grae╒s
- Nature╒s Colors has some good information, too, although not a whole lot
- on lichens. Rumor has it Karen Casselman╒s Craft of the Dyer is being
- reprinted sometime soon by Dover. Let me know if you run into it--I╒ve
- never found a copy! Also on the subject of dye books, did you know the
- Brooklyn Bontanic Gardens has done two? One is the relatively new Dyes
- From Nature (#124, 1990) but also Dye Plants and Dyeing (vol 20, #3).
- Originally published in 1964, reprinted as recently as 1986. Colour
- Cauldron is still one of my favorites, though, especially for lichens.