A Dyer's Garden: From Plant to Pot: Growing Dyes for Natural Fibers
Rita Buchanan

Softcover $12.95
ISBN 1-883010-07-1
Interweave Press, 2003.
112 pages.

Publisher: "Now you can keep the beautiful colors of your summer garden with you all year long in the form of vibrant dyes for natural fibers.

A Dyer's Garden walks you through a garden season from design to planting to harvesting for the dyepot. The hundreds of colors presented are but a sampling of the striking hues you can achieve by following the author's foolproof methods and encouragement for experimentation.

Rita Buchanon has been studying dye plants for twenty years and grouwing them for ten; she uses dyes to color wool and other natural fibers which she spins into yarn for knitting and weaving. Along with dyeplants, she also grows hundreds of fragrant herbs, perinnial wildflowers, and ornamental shrubs in her Connecticut garden and greenhouse. Rita works as an editor for Interweave Press and other companies; writes regularly for gardening and fiber craft magazines; and is the author of A Weaver's Grden (Dover, 1999) and editor of Dyes from Nature (Brooklyn Botanical Garden, 1990).