Craft of the Dyer

Craft of the DyerCraftspeople interested in traditional methods will welcome this complete guide to making and using dyes from plants. Although its emphasis is on plants of Northeastern North America, many of the plants listed are found throughout the world. Helpful introductory chapters on equipment, mordants, dyeing procedures and other essentials, are followed by individual plants: its suitability for dyeing, useful parts, how to process them, colors, dye fastness,

books on masques

No perspective on 19th-century fiction is complete without a consideration of this compelling tale

Paule Marshall's 1959 novel was among the first to portray the inner life of a young female African-American

Reprint of Woodward's National Architect

insincerity

Perhaps no one took greater offense than Protestant clergyman Charles Kingsley

many with reversed images

books on mechanical engineers

dating from the early 1920s

partial differentiation of vectors — geometry of space curves

and above all

Especially important for its illuminating comparison of the development of fluid mechanics in the former Soviet Union with that in the West