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

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Five crops; blackberry, cabbage, nettle, onion and rhubarb play leading roles in this book by Bella Gonshorovitz, as they carry the reader through each step or process: grow, cook, dye, wear. Thinking what I can do with it – led me to ideas of founding a club where members can purchase items and also get an experiential dinner.

To make the book as accessible as possible, Bella focuses on five crops that can either be foraged or easily grown in allotments, gardens, or pots; blackberry, nettle, onion, red cabbage, and rhubarb. 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. I was expecting a link to download the patterns but instead there is a map to the pattern sheets, which is useless if you cannot download the patterns. With respect to dyeing, cabbage is not an ideal dye plant as it creates temporary but beautiful colors. An important, beautifully made book about sustainable living that I found both timeless and incredibly relevant at the same time.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. With clothes, as with vegetables, the end product is often presented in a manner detached from its origins and it’s too easy to forget that everything we eat, consume and wear comes from nature. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. She has a clear, engaging vision of how we can live sustainably and shares this with warmth rather than worthiness.

AS: You speak about the link between fashion and psychology, in a context to who you become on the journey of making your own clothes. Rhubarb is a zero waste plant – dye with the roots and eat the stalks; the leaves are poisonous but powerful mordants to prepare fabric for dyeing.More often than not, circular economy and DIY approaches don't excel in the style department, however the photography, styling and overall taste in this book is on a different level and a proof that there is a way to live in a more thoughtful lifestyle without giving up the pleasures of a delicious meal or a beautifully made garment. We hope to be an inclusive company and strive to create an environment that is welcoming and embraces diversity, both with our online presence, the makers we represent, our physical pop-ups events and our collaborations. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. BG: Demystifying and personalizing circularity is one of the key objectives of this book, and for that, there is no better place to start than the soil. Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear is a practical, holistic, and fully illustrated guide to a more sustainable way of living.

Fashion designer who opened her made-to-measure studio in East London in 2012, creating fine clothes designed for longevity. Die Färbegrundlagen sind solide und die Anleitungen gut und die Erzählungen über den Garten und das Gärtnern sind amüsant und inspirierend.It shows this wonderful concept that absolutely nothing is waste, everything that comes from the land or nature can go back to nature. From sharp and edgy photo sessions to fashion, architecture, technology – the commitment is dedicated to a future that is all about us – together.

Our products are sourced with care and consideration for those who make them and we work with smaller companies and individuals whose sourcing and manufacturing process are transparent.It may vary depending on the fabric, water pH level, time in the foraging season, the freshness and quality of the crop etc. Soil can be enriched with organic matter – from manure of horses and chicken, or using leftover food waste that does not contain meat. This beautifully produced book would make a wonderful gift for anyone interested in horticulture, fashion or cooking.