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

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For example, madder – it can be harvested only three to five years after growing and the roots are used to obtain the dye. The book will guide you through every step of the process, you will learn not only how to forage, sow, harvest, and cook your own fruits and vegetables, but also how to use your homegrown produce to create natural dyes. I was inspired by Bella's unique proposal for growing, cooking, and making clothes in an elevated and stylish way. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Once you’ve mastered dying your own fabrics, you can then transform those fabrics into exclusively designed pieces of clothing (including a shirt dress and a duster coat) using Bella’s five full-size pattern sheets.

This is a really beautiful book, full of lovely photographs, which looks at sustainable ways to use certain crops, starting with growing them from seed, cooking and eating them and ending with using them to produce dyes for fabric.The aim here isn’t for readers to grow all of their vegetables, hand make all clothes, or even convert to a strict vegan diet. From sharp and edgy photo sessions to fashion, architecture, technology – the commitment is dedicated to a future that is all about us – together. Growing produce at her allotment has allowed Bella to experiment with different crops in the garden and in the kitchen. 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. Soil can be enriched with organic matter – from manure of horses and chicken, or using leftover food waste that does not contain meat.

Also used in food processing, alum is not poisonous in small quantities and it is a natural mineral.Modifiers are interesting because when you dye something, it is very rare to get two identical results. Much like the cooking scraps I add to my compost heap, horse droppings are usually considered to be the ultimate end of a cycle – waste generated as a by-product of extracting nutrients from food consumed by humans and animals.