True Colours : World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments

True Colors, written by Keith Recker, presents the work and vision of 26 natural dye artists from around the world, opening a window into their culture, their lives, and the power of colour.The artist’s stories are organized by colour and begin with white, traveling through the spectrum to blues, purples, reds, pinks, golds, arriving at varying hues of green.The colours are as extraordinary as the artists themselves: Handmade paper dyed with indigo in Ghana.Rare greens from a fungus-infested plant that grows in the Peruvian jungle.Blues that adorned ancient Briton warriors rediscovered in a Norwich studio.Purples from shellfish collected along the western coast of Mexico.Vivid coral dyes obtained from mushrooms foraged in northern California.New to this paperback edition is a chapter about Heartwear, a collaborative of artists and fashion designers who have created and supported indigo-dyeing projects from Benin to Morocco to India and beyond. Natural pigments aren’t limited to cloth d