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Dye Plants & Dyeing
By John & Margaret Cannon
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All who work with fibre crafts, as well as botanists, whether amateur or professional,
will welcome this clear account of a wide range of plants from which natural dyes
can be obtained. John and Margaret Cannon, both professional botanists, have selected
forty-eight plants from different parts of the world and describe the structure
and cultivation of each, its history as a dye source and the best method for its
use based on their own experiments. Most well-known dye plants are included,
among them elderberry, henna, indigo, madder and saffron, and each plant is
illustrated by Gretel Dalby-Quenet, a skilled botanical artist, in a full-page
painting that also shows the colours the plant can yield.
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Softcover, 128 pgs., $19.95
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