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Easily learn the simple techniques of Cheryl Kolander, Master Natural Dyer of Aurora Silk, from her 40 years of daily professional dyework and 35 years of teaching the art.

Rich, fast colours with plants, minerals and the precious Cochineal

Dye all your own natural fibred clothing.

Create the unique colours you want.

For health, beauty and to celebrate the natural, joy-filled life.

Includes

• Brilliant colours on Silk - from Plants, Minerals and Insects, originally written for threads magazine. Purchased but never published. Brazilwood red. © 1989 includes handling, and a basic procedures walk-thru.
• Principles of natural dyeing Revised from Hemp! For textile Artists, © 1985
• Mordants and assists
• Workshop recipes since 1997, revised.
• Dye studio safety: "The Problem of Chrome"
• Environmental concerns: "The Myth of the Bad Mordant"
• Equivalents (weights to measures)
• Reds with cochineal
• Madder for red, orange, violet
• Pioneer colours from Hemp! For Textile Artists, © 1995
• Onion gold First published in Spin Off magazine, Interweave Press, © 1985
• Weld, a clear yellow
• Fustic, a warm yellow
• Greens
• Catechu brown
• Logwood black and purples
• Lavenders
• Indigo = natural fermentation vat
• Indigo, "instant", and peacock indigo sulphate
• Paint dyeing
• Extracts of brazilwood and logwood
• Home bleaching
• Why natural dyes?
• The Ecology of Colours written for talking leaves magazine, 1992
• What is colour?
• The structure of colour
• Brilliant colours
• The physiology of colour perception, the complexity of natural dyes
• Colour magic prepared for a lecture, 1987
• Decaval scale of colour corespondences
• Medical uses of natural dyes
• Bibliography
• Tyria = the international guild of professional natural dyers
• Standards for responsible natural dyework
• Fastness ratings
• Care of naturally dyed colours
• The economics of natural dyes
• Industrial natural dyework

For advanced dyers, we recommend:  Gardner’s “Excerpts on Natural Dyeing”