People say it all the time “I make a bit of everything, I like to dabble”. So many makers wander lost in the huge, exciting world of art and craft trying everything, not mastering anything and never truly knowing what they actually want to do.

In 1842 Sir John Herschel invented the cyanotype. A blue coloured photography technique made using salts.

This book will teach you how to use some of the oldest methods of dyeing known to mankind. You will learn how to use oxides to colour cloth with the aid of rust and other eco dyeing methods. By combining rust and plants you will be able to extend you patterns and colourways.