Fast, fun, easy…this is exactly what the art of fabric dyeing can be—if you have the right information and materials. Lynn Koolish, master quilter and well-known author of several popular surface design books brings you a simple, thorough handbook perfect for the beginning dyer's home workshop.

Packed with 12 essential can’t miss techniques for adding your own custom color to fabric, clothing, linens and household goods. With this easy to reference book, and a few basic supplies, even a dyeing "newbie" will have what they need to produce beautiful fabrics and garments with a minimum of time and effort.

8.5" x 11" - Soft cover - Color Photos - 63 pages

A new and very colorful book all about working with Procion MX Fiber Reactive dye. This British author discusses color and color mixing, fabrics and equipment, many methods of direct application as well as more advanced techniques, such as working with thickened dye, resists, bleaching and discharging. Even touches on potato dextrin! Handy charts and recipes round out this comprehensive guide to artistic exploration with fiber reactive dyes! Recipes give metric and standard US measurements.

9" x 11", hard cover, color photos, 128 pages.

The Craft of Natural Dyeing will provide you with all the basic info to get started using natural dyes. Topics include dyeable materials, equipment needed , mordants, dyestuffs, color ranges and how to get them. Lots of fun information and great results with very easy to follow, step-by-step directions.

The author uses several different mordants to fix the dyes. After examining them, Dharma Trading Co. only carries Alum and the Cream of Tartar assistant because of toxicity concerns, sorry. We also carry the Washing Soda she refers to, but we call it Soda Ash. When dyeing with Indigo, she refers to Thiox, which is our Color Remover. We like this book because there are many recipes using these more safe mordants as well as the more toxic ones. In addition to most of the Natural Dyes we carry, she also talks about using plants and barks that you can grow in your own garden!

7.75" x 10.25" - Soft Cover, Full Color, 64 pages.

This is a good book for beginners who want to see what the possibilities and options are for bound resist. It covers tying, folding, clamping, stitching, pole wrapping and bound objects as design elements.

Dyes are discussed with recipes and directions including fiber reactive, acid, indigo and vat dyes, as well as discharging and embellishing. There are 13 step by step projects to showcase the techniques.

10.25" x 8.75", Hardcover, Color, 127 pages