DIVE INTO THE CRAFT

Suggested reading

A growing collection of books, voices, and digital spaces that continue to shape how I see colour, material, and the natural world.

These are not only technical resources, but sources of perspective. Writings on craft, ecology, philosophy, and place, alongside conversations and archives that deepen the understanding of what it means to work with nature rather than extract from it.

Books

ON DYEING

The Art & Science of Natural Dyes

Joy Boutrup & Catharine Ellis

Eco Colour

India Flint

Harvesting Color

Rebecca Burgess

The Rainbow Beneath My Feet:
A Mushroom Dyer's Field Guide

Arleen R. Bessette

Shibori: The Inventive Art of
Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing

Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, et al.

Wild Color

Jenny Dean

The Wild Dyer

Abigail Booth

ON PHILOSOPHY, POETRY & NATURE

A Wilder Way

Poppy Okotcha

Beauty

John O'Donohue

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Devotions

Mary Oliver

A Field Guide to Getting
Lost

Rebecca Solnit

Finding the Mother Tree

Suzanne Simard

The Light Eaters

Zoë Schlanger

Native American Ethnobotany

Daniel E. Moerman

The Nature of Oaks

Douglas W. Tallamy

The Spell of the Sensuous

David Abram

Tending the Wild

M. Kat Anderson

Digital Resources

ON DYEING

Aboubakar Fofana

Instagram

Billy Nou

YouTube channel

Botanical Colors

YouTube channel

The Dogwood Dyer

A Year in Natural Dyes

Graham Keegan

Online Tutorials & Workshops

Rebecca Desnos

Blog

The Long Thread

Podcast

MAIWA

YouTube channel

ON PHILOSOPHY, BEING & NATURE

A Seat at the Table - Earthrise

Youtube

Famous Last Words: Dr.Jane Goodall

Netflix

Gather

Documentary film

On Being with Krista Tippett -
John O'Donohue: The Inner Landscape of Beauty

Podcast episode

Rebecca Burgess on “For the Wild”

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