Navajo native dyes, their preparation and use / recipes formulated by Nonabah G. Bryan ; compiled by Stella Young ; illustrated with drawings by Charles Keetsie Shirley.

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Title:

Navajo native dyes, their preparation and use / recipes formulated by Nonabah G. Bryan ; compiled by Stella Young ; illustrated with drawings by Charles Keetsie Shirley.

Author:

Young, Stella.

Additional Author(s):

Bryan, Nonabah Gorman.

Shirley, Charles Keetsie.

ISBN:

0404155049

Edition:

1st AMS ed.

Publication Info:

New York : AMS Press, 1979.

Description:

75 p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

Indian handcrafts ; 2.

General Note:

Reprint of the 1940 ed. published by the Chilocco Agricultural School, Chilocco, Okla., which was issued as no. 2 of Indian handcrafts.

Subject(s):

Navajo textile fabrics.

Dyes and dyeing -- Southwest, New.

Navajo Indians -- Industries.

Indian textile fabrics -- Southwest, New.

Indians of North America -- Industries -- Southwest, New.

Dye plants -- Southwest, New.

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Simply written text, accompanied by detailed line illustrations of plants, explains how to select and mix natural colors of wool and prepare "recipes" for producing specific colors of dye from desert plants, among them single-flowered actinea for yellow, alder bark for a soft brown, the Rocky Mountain bee plant for a pale greenish yellow, more.

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