Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear: From Seed to Style the Sustainable Way

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I also found some extremely useful tips and clear explanations even as someone who is not very familiar with many of the concepts or techniques in the book. Five crops; blackberry, cabbage, nettle, onion and rhubarb play leading roles in this book by Bella Gonshorovitz, as they carry the reader through each step or process: grow, cook, dye, wear. For example, using an iron mordant with the berries will produce spellbindingly deep, dusky blues, while adding an iron mordant to the pesky bramble branches and shoots will extract bluish-green, dusty greens.

Whether you choose to grow your own food or not, the recipes, tips, and sewing patterns in this book are guaranteed to inspire and delight.Perfect for: Crafty, sustainability-minded readers who enjoy making things with their own hands, and anyone who wants to understand more about the processes behind the items we consume on a daily basis. The one that I left out was beetroot, because like cabbage its dye doesn’t last very long and it gets less impressive results. In that context, this book attempts something radical – clothes emerging from the processes of this book say more about the past rather than the fantasy of the future.

However, it is challenging to live that way or even do the whole process of the book in just one season.It’s a brilliant insight into a clearly talented designer’s though processes, where you can really get a feel of her various aspirations and though processes that combine to make her creativity. Onion is a great choice, as it can be cultivated easily and if people lack space to grow it, it’s common enough to be able to source skins. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.