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30 step-by-step tie-dye projects with full color photos perfect for
crafting fun at home! Add bursts of color and creativity to your
days with simply sensational tie-dye! With 30 fun projects to
choose from, everyone will find something they love. You can master
the classic tie-dye T-shirt but also go beyond the basic to
discover new patterns, techniques, and possibilities for DIY
clothing, accessories, and home decor. Step-by-step directions and
full-color photos guide you to beautiful results with less mess.
With this book, learn to make tie-dye: T-shirts Skirts Dresses
Leggings Sweatshirts Scarves Baby onesies Bucket Hats Headbands and
Scrunchies Socks Shoes Drawstring Backpacks Dog Collars and Leashes
Pillows Duvet covers Curtains Towels Garden flags And More! Get
your best tie-dye results ever with expert tips on choosing dyes,
perfecting patterns, and making colors last. DIY Tie-Dye fills the
tie-dye process with ease, imagination, and enjoyment for all ages!
The best resource on natural dyeing is back, updated to make your
colorful hobby even more beautiful and rewarding.
A practical and inspiring guide to creating and using natural dyes
from plants, "Wild Color, Revised and Updated Edition," offers the
latest information on current environmentally friendly dyeing
techniques and more than 65 species of plants and natural
dyestuffs.
This comprehensive book outlines all the necessary equipment, how
to select fibers and plant parts, choose the right methods for
mordanting and dyeing, test color modifiers and the fastness of
dyed colors, and obtain a range of gorgeous colors from every
plant, from alter to woad, shown in more than 250 swatches.
"Wild Color, Revised and Updated Edition, "is the all-in-one
resource for fiber enthusiasts, including knitters, sewers, and
weavers; gardeners who are interested in new uses for traditional
dye plants; and eco-conscious DIYers who want authoritative
information about the natural dyeing process and the plants that
are essential to it.
Mary Edna Fraser has taken the art of batik to otherworldly
heights. An internationally renowned artist, Fraser has had works
grace galleries, museums, and public buildings throughout the
United States - creating wonder, awe, and an awareness of the
environment around us as few artists have had the talent and vision
to manage. Using fabric, wax, and dye, Fraser has transformed the
techniques of batik from its ancient origins and forged new
panoramas and vistas of our unique planet from the sky above us to
the ground beneath our feet, and even down to the evocative
landscapes that sprawl across the ocean floor. These images not
only astonish us with their allure; they also remind of us of our
place in the world and our responsibility to respect and care for
it. Part history and guide to the challenging techniques of this
form, The Batik Art of Edna Fraser affords not only a full-color
introduction to Fraser's stunning perceptions of the glaciers,
icebergs, coastlines, atmospheres, mountains, and rivers that grace
our globe, but gives us an intimate look at the artist at work and
the philosophies that guide her singular imagination as well. Bold,
beautiful, thoughtful, and always visceral, Fraser's art invites us
outside to see with new eyes the horizons that surround us - and
inside to see ourselves in our inextricable connection with the
land, the seas, the skies, the earth, as we are woven together as
one in the fabric of our existence on this, our home, the vibrant
blue planet hurtling through space and time.
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