Naturally Brilliant Colour
Author: Andrew Parker
Publisher:
Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781842467336
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Natural Color
Author: Sasha Duerr
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Published: 2016-08-23
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1607749378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful book of seasonal projects for using the brilliant spectrum of colors derived from plants to naturally dye your clothing and home textiles. Organized by season, Natural Color is a beautifully photographed guide to the full range of plant dyes available, drawn from commonly found fruits, flowers, trees, and herbs, with accompanying projects. Using sustainable methods and artisinal techniques, designer, artist, and professor Sasha Duerr details achievable ways to apply these limitless color possibilities to your home and wardrobe. Whether you are new to dyeing or more practiced, Duerr's clear and simple ingredients lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed breakouts on techniques such as shibori, dip-dye, and block printing will ensure beautiful results. With recipes to dye everything from dresses and sweaters to rugs and napkins, Natural Color will inspire fashion enthusiasts, home decorators, textile lovers, and everyone else who wants to bring more color into their life.
Eco Colour
Author: India Flint
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-09-14
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1596683309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essence of plants bursts forth in magnificent hues and surprising palettes. Using dyes of the leaves, roots, and flowers to color your cloth and yarn can be an amazing journey into botanical alchemy. In Eco Colour, artistic dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you how to cull and use this gentle and ecologically sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes. India explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant color using a wide variety of techniques and recipes. From whole-dyed cloth and applied color to prints and layered dye techniques, India describes only ecologically sustainable plant-dye methods. She uses renewable resources and shows how to do the least possible harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a number of entirely new processes developed by India, as well as guidelines for plant collection, directions for the distillation of nontoxic mordants, and methodologies for applying plant dyes. Eco Colour inspires both the home dyer and textile professional seeking to extend their skills using India's successful methods.
Natural Palettes
Author: Sasha Duerr
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1616899298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“The plant-lover’s alternative to the Pantone color guide.”—Julia Sherman, creator of Salad for President Renowned natural dyer, artist, and educator Sasha Duerr envisions a new age of fresh, modern color palettes, drawing from our original source of inspiration and ingredients—the natural world around us. This innovative plant-based color guide includes twenty-five palettes with five hundred natural color swatches, providing a bounty of ideas for sustainable fashion, textiles, fine art, floral design, food, medicine, gardening, interior design, and other creative disciplines. Bring the healing power of forest bathing into your home with a palette of spruce cones, pine needles, and balsam branches. Move past Pantone and embrace the natural balance of a pollinator palette with Hopi sunflower, red poppy, echinacea, and scabiosa. Duerr complements her palettes with illuminating reflections on connections between color and landscape, the healing properties of medicinal plants, the ways food and floral waste can be regenerated to enhance lifestyle experiences, the ecological benefits of using natural colors, and more. You may never view color—or the plants that surround us—the same way again.
Harvesting Color
Author: Rebecca Burgess
Publisher: Artisan Books
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1579654258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases thre dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow yourself, she details when to sow the seed and how to nuture the plant. For all the plants, you'll learn the optimal time to harvest, as well as how to extract the best dyes" --Cover flap.
Brilliant Colour at Home
Author: Elizabeth Hilliard
Publisher: Kyle Cathie Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781856265232
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrilliant Colour at Home believes in the transforming power of colour for your interiors. It explains the colour wheel and the advantages of colour in a decorative scheme, with excellent advice and helpful tips on how to use it to create the perfect interior for you. The exceptional photography of real interior examples, both traditional and modern, shows how colour can create warmth and focus, from whole rooms being painted in vibrant shades to the subtle touch of a few splashes of dynamic colour. Awkward and dull spaces are remedied with inspirational ideas on how to use paint, fabric, pattern and light to rejuvenate and enliven your interiors. Elizabeth Hilliard embraces colour in this book, dispelling the myths and jargon so often associated with it, creating an easy-to-follow and beautifully illustrated guide to using brilliant colour in the home. Book jacket.
Lichen Dyes
Author: Karen Diadick Casselman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9780486412313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNoted textile designer and lichen expert explains how to create and use dyes derived from lichens. Text covers history of the use of lichen pigments, safe dyeing methods, ecologically sound dyeing, and use of mordants, lichen identification, and more. Text also offers a fascinating history of Asian and European lichen pigments, Scottish, Irish, and Scandinavian domestic lichen dyes, and others.
Line Color Form
Author: Jesse Day
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1621532445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe only guide of its kind, Line Color Form offers a thorough introduction to design theory and terminology in a visually appealing and accessible format. With hundreds of illustrations and minimal text, this primer was created with visual learners in mind, making it ideal for art students as well as those for whom English is a second language. Each chapter focuses on a single aspect of visual composition, such as line, color, or material. After an illustrated discussion of fundamental vocabulary, the chapters move on to applications of the concepts through images, including photographs, color wheels, significant works of art, and other visual aids. Each image is accompanied by a descriptive paragraph offering an example of how the vocabulary can be applied in visual analysis. The book culminates with a section on formal analysis, aimed at teaching readers how to express their observations in formal writing and critical discourse. Whether you are a design educator, student, or professional, native or non-native English speaker, this reference is a must.
The Bold and Brilliant Garden
Author: Sarah Raven
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2001-05-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780711217522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWant to create a dramatic garden that leaves a lasting impression? This stunning guide offers a new approach to planning and planting, encouraging you to throw caution to the wind and orchestrate colours, textures, scale and scent to spectacular effect from spring until autumn. The key is colour: intense, strong and voluptuous such as deep crimsons combined with acid green and incandescent orange. Integral to the vision is a feeling for dramatic scale: plants with huge presence, architectural foliage, strong, sculptural shapes and to complete the effect, flowers with silken and velvety textures and flooding the garden with scent. There are schemes for sunny, open beds and borders for shady areas, for damp soils and to clothe walls and fences - many of which include lots of quick-growing annuals and take only a season to achieve. This is the go-to guide for achieving a spectacular and striking garden.
Structural Colors in the Realm of Nature
Author: Shuichi Kinoshita
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9812707832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStructural colorations originate from self-organized microstructures, which interact with light in a complex way to produce brilliant colors seen everywhere in nature. Research in this field is extremely new and has been rapidly growing in the last 10 years, because the elaborate structures created in nature can now be fabricated through various types of nanotechnologies. Indeed, a fundamental book covering this field from biological, physical, and engineering viewpoints has long been expected.Coloring in nature comes mostly from inherent colors of materials, though it sometimes has a purely physical origin such as diffraction or interference of light. The latter, called structural color or iridescence, has long been a problem of scientific interest. Recently, structural colors have attracted great interest because various photonic architectures, now developing in modern technologies, have been spontaneously created in the self-organization process and have been extensively used as one of the important visual functions. In this book, the fundamental optical properties underlying structural colors are explained, and these mysteries of nature are surveyed from the viewpoint of biological diversity and according to their sophisticated structures. The book proposes a general principle of structural colors based on the structural hierarchy and presents up-to-date applications.
