Navajo Native Dyes

Navajo Native Dyes
Author: Nonabah Gorman Bryan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780486421056

Simply written text, accompanied by detailed line illustrations of plants, explains how to select and mix natural colors of wool and prepare "recipes" for producing specific colors of dye from desert plants, among them single-flowered actinea for yellow, alder bark for a soft brown, the Rocky Mountain bee plant for a pale greenish yellow, more.

Navajo Native Dyes

Navajo Native Dyes
Author: United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1940
Genre: Dye plants
ISBN:

Navajo and Hopi Dyes

Navajo and Hopi Dyes
Author: Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton
Publisher: Treasure Chest Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 1994
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781883736088

True Colors

True Colors
Author: Keith Recker
Publisher: Schiffer + ORM
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 150730272X

This updated 2nd edition features a revised chapter. True Colors is about artists who create color from natural materials and about the historical importance and environmental sustainability of this practice. Deep conversations with 26 artisans from every part of the globe reveal their wisdom, traditions, and know-how—and suggest that we ignore what they know at our peril. Traditional approaches to making color offer sustainable options to a fashion system badly in need of them and memorable cultural narratives to a world hungry for beauty and spirituality. True Colors provides an immersive visual experience and an inspiring travelogue of personal stories and practical information from artists who are leaving their mark on the world.

Nanise': a Navajo Herbal

Nanise': a Navajo Herbal
Author: Barbara Bayless Lacy
Publisher: Book Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781589852907

Nanise', A Navajo Herbal, co-authored by Barbara Bayless Lacy and Vernon O. Mayes, details 100 plants that are found on the Navajo Reservation, providing the reader with the Navajo name for each plant as well as ways the Navajos used them in everyday life, whether for ceremonial, medicinal or household purposes - complete with illustrations. The 100 plants are some of the most common reservation flora of over 1,500 species of wild, vascular plants, including ferns, horsetails, conifers and flowering species and were selected by the Navajo Health Authority, Ethnobotany Project staff, and approved by the Navajo Medicine Men's Association.

Navaho Weaving

Navaho Weaving
Author: Charles Avery Amsden
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0486144801

First in-depth study of the technical aspects of Navaho weaving, plus history of the loom and its prototypes in the prehistoric Southwest, analysis and description of weaves, dyes, and more. Over 230 illustrations.

Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing

Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing
Author: Rita J. Adrosko
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486156095

All the information ever needed to extract dyestuffs from common trees, flowers, lichens, and weeds to create beautifully dyed materials. The heart of the book is 52 recipes for dyes made from natural, easily obtained dyestuffs.

Harvesting Color

Harvesting Color
Author: Rebecca Burgess
Publisher: Artisan Books
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1579654258

"'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases thre dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow yourself, she details when to sow the seed and how to nuture the plant. For all the plants, you'll learn the optimal time to harvest, as well as how to extract the best dyes" --Cover flap.