Enjoy plant dyeing at home with Maito Design Works - Japanese Craft Book

Release date: ‎ 2024/5/1
Language ‏ : ‎ Japanese
Book: ‎ 128 pages

The first book by Maito Komuro, a botanical dyer who runs the botanical dye brand “Maito Design Works”
``Plant dyeing'' creates natural colors from familiar plants that can be found at flower shops, fresh food stores, and even on neighborhood footpaths.
In fact, it's a handiwork that you can easily do at home.
This book provides an easy-to-understand explanation of how to easily and beautifully dye plants using tools you have at home, with plenty of color samples and process photos. Also, the plants used are all very familiar. We introduce its characteristics, suitable dyeing methods, and color samples of 536 colors that can be dyed using these methods, so you are sure to find your favorite color.
　
In addition to how to dye items such as T-shirts, socks, and hand towels, as well as buttons, ribbons, and washi paper, we also introduce a wide range of dyeing methods, from basics to advanced techniques. It is so fulfilling that you can dye it in your favorite color and try your hand at creating your own original items.
This is a book packed with the charms of vegetable dyeing, written by Masato Komuro, a vegetable dyer and representative of the vegetable dye factory brand "Maito Design Works."

【table of contents】
Chapter 1 Basics of vegetable dyeing
Chapter 2 Color sample Orange/Green/Light pink/Yellow
Column Vegetable dyeing seen through the four seasons
Chapter 3 Color sample Purple/black/gray/brown/blue
Chapter 4: Dyeing procedure (basic dyeing method)
Column Cleaning up after dyeing with plants
Chapter 5: Dyeing procedures (special materials and dyeing methods)
List of auxiliary agents used in vegetable dyeing and where to obtain them
About the dye store, Maito Design Works

<Author Profile>
Makito Komuro
Plant dyer. Representative of "Maito Design Works". He gained experience with vegetable dyeing at his family's vegetable dyeing studio, Kobo Yumezaiku (Akizuki, Fukuoka), and majored in dyeing and weaving at the Department of Crafts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. In 2009, he started his own original brand "MAITO". In 2010, she established the plant dyeing factory brand "Maito Design Works" in Ueno, Tokyo. Currently, she has a workshop shop in her warehouse, where she researches vegetable dyeing, collaborates with various manufacturers and brands, produces and directs original products, and holds vegetable dyeing workshops, and spreads Japanese traditional culture through vegetable dyeing. We are striving to

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