Craft of the Dyer: Colour from Plants and Lichens (Dover Crafts: Weaving & Dyeing)

Every conceivable plant is covered in this book. A must have for natural dyeing.

I see other reviewers have given 4 stars for the lack of color photos. I can understand that but feel that the information in this one book is so complete and well done that it can only get 5 stars from me. Being new to dying I have been collecting and reading everything available to me on the subject. This is the first out of about 20 books so far that I sat down and read for hours feeling I was getting the complete picture from how your pots and pans can act as mordants to a well done selection of plant information, collecting and best uses of all parts. Color photographs would be lovely but there is a vast technical side to dying and I for one am very appreciative of a book that is so detailed on the subject and will become my go to book for information. Worth every penny!!

A lot of good information. This book does not have pretty pictures like some of the other dye books I have. That was a little disappointing as I like to have a visual of the colors I can expect to get. But, it isn't a major issue as it is really the information that is important. I like that this book covers different dye materials than I have found in my other books.

A wealth of information presented very concisely. I know that others have been unhappy due to no pictures but for those of us that have experimented with natural dyeing it's understood that pictures of other's results don't really inform our own work. Use this volume as a reference and start yourself a dye journal!

Loads and loads of information -all in print. The only pictures were on the cover. Information is technical and makes use of the nasties - tin, chrome and copper. It should have been named "Science of the Dyer." If you want to identify anything then you will need more books as this one refers one only to other sources for identification. Good reference book for the technical aspect of dyeing. Dyeing is all about color and this book misses out on that aspect.

I liked the comprehensive information regarding natural dye stuffs. This gives me a good jumping off point as a beginner dyer.

I enjoy dyeing with plants and achieving colors not possible from artificial dyes. This is a nice reference book in my library for dyeing.

bought it for my mom and she loves it. She sheers her sheep, then cards, spins and dyes her own wool. This book is exactly what she wanted.

Great book - printed in 1980. No nonsense book packed with useful information. No gimmicks - clear instructions. I partnered it with 'Lichen Dyes: The New Source Book' and they work brilliantly together.

Has alot of useful information for natural dyers in the north east of North America. I do wish it had more images as it gets hard for me to read with my ADHD & dislecsia but annotating really help me process the information wich is why i bought it in the frist place instead of borrowingit from my schools library (we have a few of the frist editions).I also like that it had information on what others found to be good dyes even if it didn't work for the other as natural dyes are unpredictable & often don't work the way you want them to.

This book has a ton of information on natural dyeing and what can be used to make the dye. I gave it 4 stars because it could use some color photos. Otherwise, I would give it a 5 star.

Comprehensive in terms of plant material and older methods of dyeing. A new edition with latest trends would make this a very good reference.

A must have.