The Wild Dyer is an excellent resource for anyone who wants to start natural dyeing. It is a very easy book to follow for those who have not done any dyeing before. It goes over which tools you need to get started and how to prepare your dye area.

It also goes over where to find dye plants, whether they are items from your kitchen, grown in your garden, or foraged. There are also lots of dye swatches for each plant listed and what colors you can get depending on when they are harvested and which type of mordant is used.

Not only do you learn to dye fabrics with natural dyes but also some projects to make with the fabrics that you have dyed.

To top off all of the wonderful information that is in this book, the photography is also beautiful.

This is a wonderful addition to any dyers library!

This book's strength is its ability to pull a limited selection of information on a number of fields together, allowing someone new to natural dyeing to go from plant to finished product. It does a good job providing basic information on every area it touches, from natural dyeing to gardening to sewing. The sewing/textile projects are fairly simple - allowing the naturally dyed fabric to be the star. There are other books that are better overall references for natural dyeing, but this is a pretty starter book for someone without previous exposure to natural dyeing.

For me, the most intimidating part of natural dying is the requirement to know a lot of plants and being limited by where you live. In The Wild Dyer, Abigail booth takes the time to explore things that are in your kitchen waiting to be used as well as plants that you could incorporate into your gardening. While my primary craft is knitting, I appreciate the fabric focus of this book and am itching to try dying something and turning it into one of the aprons outlined in this book.

I've read a handful of books on natural dying, but this is the first book that's made me feel as though I don't need a million tools and a backpacking trip in order to make it happen.