A brief bibliography for vegetable dyers with an interest in historical
applications:
Dyeing & Dyestuffs by Su Grierson, Shire Album #229,
Dye Plants & Dyeing Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record Vol 20 No. 3 #46
Dyes From Nature, ed by Rita Buchanan Brookltyn Botanic Garden, Vol 46,
No. 2, summer 1990.
Previous three are inexpensive but packed with excellent info. Next two
are excellent, but big hardbacks, both available from Interweave Press,
Loveland, Colorado:
A Weaver's Garden by Rita Buchanan
The Colour Cauldron, by Su Grierson
All still readily available at the usual sources É
Deborah

For references, you can also try Lichens for Vegetable Dyeing by Eileen
Bolton. ItÕs been out of print for a while, but Robin and Russ is
reprinting it this year. Also check back Spin.Offs: Michelle
Wipplinger-- ÒLichensÓ Spin¥Off (Summer 1986), page 34. Ida GraeÕs
NatureÕs Colors has some good information, too, although not a whole lot
on lichens. Rumor has it Karen CasselmanÕs Craft of the Dyer is being
reprinted sometime soon by Dover. Let me know if you run into it--IÕve
never found a copy! Also on the subject of dye books, did you know the
Brooklyn Bontanic Gardens has done two? One is the relatively new Dyes
From Nature (#124, 1990) but also Dye Plants and Dyeing (vol 20, #3).
Originally published in 1964, reprinted as recently as 1986. Colour
Cauldron is still one of my favorites, though, especially for lichens.