Dye your own cloth with natural dyes and truly be a part of the green revolution!  As the subtitle "techniques and recipes for dyeing fabrics, yarns and fibers at home" states, you can do all this in your own house without specialist equipment and, of course, much of this you can grow in your own back yard.  Like all good Search Press books (and I have yet to see any truly bad ones) there is a helpful guide showing you how to use the book at the beginning, and a useful double page spread showing all the colors you can make, complete with what page to find the recipe on.

There isn’t much that does not get covered in here.  From a brief overview and history of dyeing to "the basics" about color, fiber properties, and preparing your cloth, it progresses through collecting dyestuffs from natural sources through to the actual dyeing process.  A third of the book is given over to the recipes, complete with their history and how to go about the process. What you get when you have finished is shown in glorious color.  It might be stressed that home fiber dyeing is not something to go into lightly, as you do need to obtain the actual dyestuffs and fleeces/cloth/yarns.  A short list of places in the UK where this can be done is helpfully given at the back, the items you need to buy are few, and you probably have most if not all of them already in your kitchen.  The authors do not try to get you to buy anything you do not need, which is refreshing, as is the lack of mystique surrounding the subject: within these covers is a refreshingly straightforward primer.  This is one of those books it is a good idea to read through first before doing anything, but I am confident that the instructions are beautifully simple, aided and abetted by lush colored photographs. If you want to dye your own cloth or fibers, I haven’t yet seen a better book for beginners than this one.