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

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The first step is hunting, growing or foraging for produce, then there’s cooking with five vegan or plant-based recipes.

In the context of my book that will also be counterproductive because I want people to engage with circularity in an approachable way. For example, using an iron mordant with the berries will produce spellbindingly deep, dusky blues, while adding an iron mordant to the pesky bramble branches and shoots will extract bluish-green, dusty greens. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It may vary depending on the fabric, water pH level, time in the foraging season, the freshness and quality of the crop etc.I use it to refer to certain traditional dye plants that I incorporate into the dye bath to add color.

It was when I got my allotment that I started cultivating on a larger scale and explored natural dyes. The garment patterns are included in a folder within the book and are for a dress, a duster jacket, a bolero, a shirt (dress) and a pair of shorts. It is about establishing a more intimate connection with nature and finding a new perspective on mass-produced products. There are interesting recipes and the book is written in a way that is nice to read and welcoming to beginners.My wife uses natural botanicals to dye Irish wool as a hobby, but does enough of it that we built a free-standing wool dyeing studio (she-shed) for her. The idea is to embody circular economy as something approachable – where you can capture its essence in the title of the book itself. Once you’ve perfected the process of 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 that come together with the book! Modifiers are interesting because when you dye something, it is very rare to get two identical results.