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Getting Started with Natural Dyes e-Book

This 13 page e-book covers the basics of scouring, mordants, and soy milk preparation for cotton, linen, hemp, and other cellulose based fabrics..

This book covers the very basics of what a Dyer needs to do BEFORE dyeing fabrics with natural dyes!  If you own the other three books this information is covered in those books.

Mark Making with Nature: Surface Design with Natural Dyes e-Book (51 pages) $14.95 - PDF format.

Topics Covered:
Screen Printing with natural dyes, using thickeners and more.
Bound Resists with natural dyes how to obtain rich layers of color on fabrics.
Monoprinting & Stamping with natural dyes. Create additional depth and design to your fabrics by stamping and printing them using natural dyes and pigments.
Dye Painting with natural dyes using thickeners, gutta resists, and much much more
Pigment Painting: using pigments with natural dyes to create additional character to your art cloth.

Rust and Clay Dyeing e-Book (63 pages) $14.95 - PDF format.

In this book Kimberly Baxter Packwood covers multiple techniques on rust dyeing, how to obtain rust, and how to stop it's progression. Step-by-step detailed color photos.

Chapter 1 Rust Dyeing
Chapter 2 Earth and Iron Oxide Dyeing
Chapter 3 Discharge Dyeing Rust
Chapter 4 Pigment, Ocher, & Clay Painting
Chapter 5 Resists & Other Techniques

Compost Dyeing and Other Fermentation Dyeing Techniques e-book (44 Pages) $14.95 - PDF format.

Compost Dyeing, Solar Dyeing, Fermentation Dyeing and a bit of Rust Dyeing to create unique marks and textures on fabric using the tools of nature.

Topics covered:
14 Methods of acquiring color and patterns on fabric using your compost pile and much more
Mineral Dyeing
Rust Dyeing
Solar Dyeing and much, much more
Batching
Curing
Washing and neutralizing fabrics with rust
Mold and how to manage mildew and moldy fabrics

Mark Making with Nature Book Package e-Book - PDF format  $40.00

In this download you will receive all three books. 

Mark Making with Nature: Surface Design with Natural Dyes

Rust and Clay Dyeing

Compost Dyeing and Other Fermentation Dyeing Techniques.

$59.00 + $4.95 Shipping World Wide

Mark Making with Nature DVD - $49.00 plus $4.95 shipping

Over 2 hours of Video Instruction (2 Discs) Additional Instruction Included (PDF on CD-ROM)
Everything you ever wanted to know to create unique cloth using natural dyes is covered in this DVD Set, an excellent companion to the book Compost Dyeing and Other Fermentation Techniques.

Topics Covered Include:

• Compost Dyeing: Several methods of compost dyeing are demonstrated.

• Screen Printing with natural dyes, using thickeners and more.

• Bound Resists with natural dyes how to obtain rich layers of color on fabric. Mono printing & Stamping with natural dyes.

• Create additional depth and design to your fabrics by stamping and printing them using natural dyes and pigments.

• Dye Painting with natural dyes using thickeners, gutta resists, and much much more. Pigments: using pigments with natural dyes to create additional character to your art cloth.

Included is a  PDF booklet (this booklet is on a CD-ROM which you can then print out) that includes additional images and details on how to obtain gorgeous art cloth using natural dyes.