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A Weaver's Garden
Valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics, soap plants to use for cleaning textiles, fragrant plants to scent and protect fabrics; planning and creating a garden featuring cotton, flax, indigo, and much more.
The Dyer's Garden
An explanation of the plants to grow for fabric dyes, how to care for them, and how to make dyes.
Taylor's Master Guide to Landscaping
Reveals the vital components of landscape design, offering advice on choosing a site, selecting plants, creating garden accessories, and maintaining a landscape.
Socks
Here are complete instructions for 20 different handspun, handknitted socks. Patterns include hiking socks, knee socks, "girly-girl" lace socks, and much more. You'll also find notes on spinning, choosing equivalent commercial yarns, and managing all the tricky little techniques that make socks so much fun to knit.
Making a Garden
A friendly, encouraging book by an enthusiastic expert, this book features 16 chapters that cover some of the most popular subjects in gardening as well as some of the most challenging. 200 color illustrations & photos.
The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing
"For several thousand years, all dyes were of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin, and many ancient civilizations possessed excellent dye technologies. The first synthetic dye was produced in 1856, and the use of traditional dyes declined rapidly thereafter. By 1915 few non-synthetics were used by industry or craftspeople. The craft revivals of the 1920s explored traditional methods of natural dyeing to some extent, particularly with wool, although the great eighteenth- and nineteenth-century dye manuals, which recorded the older processes, remained largely forgotten. In The Art and Craft of Natural Dyeing, J.N. Liles consolidates the lore of the older dyers with his own first-hand experien...
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics
Felski presents a critical account of current American and European feminist literary theory, and analyzes contemporary fiction by women to show that no theorist can identify a specifically "female" or "feminine" kind of writing without reference to what gender means at a given historical moment. She argues that the idea of a feminist aesthetic is a non-issue needlessly pursued by feminists. She calls for a consideration of the social and cultural context in which these texts were produced and received, and demonstrates her method of an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature which can integrate literary and social theory. ISBN 0-674-06894-7: $25.00; ISBN 0-674-06895-5 (pbk.): $9.95.
The Shaker Herb and Garden Book
Simplicity, efficiency, and beauty are all qualities that today's gardeners strive for, and all are exemplified by the 19th century Shaker gardeners. Written by Rita Buchanan, an expert on herbs, and with photographs of present-day Shaker gardens, this book will appeal to gardeners and to the thousands of people who visit Shaker villages each year. "If you would have a lovely garden, you should have a lovely life".--Shaker saying. color photos. (Buyer's Choice)
Taylor's Guide to Gardening in the Southwest
A guide to gardening in the Southwest and Southern California includes advice on garden design and lawn care and presents information on appropriate plants for the region
Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing (formerly Titled: Natural Dyes in the United States)
Describes traditional methods of extracting pigmented materials from trees and plants and provides several dye recipes
