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

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It was when I got my allotment that I started cultivating on a larger scale and explored natural dyes. It’s a brilliant insight into a clearly talented designer’s though processes, where you can really get a feel of her various aspirations and though processes that combine to make her creativity. Live sustainably with style - grow fruits and vegetables, cook them, create natural dyes, then make your own clothes with five full-size pattern sheets. I made the onion dyed dress from upcycled fabrics for myself, showed it to my agent – who helped me put together a proposal. 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.

The first step is hunting, growing or foraging for produce, then there’s cooking with five vegan or plant-based recipes.Die Färbegrundlagen sind solide und die Anleitungen gut und die Erzählungen über den Garten und das Gärtnern sind amüsant und inspirierend. Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear is a practical, holistic, and fully illustrated guide to a more sustainable way of living. You start with the onion, perhaps in spring and harvest in autumn, cook with it, collect enough skins to dye the fabric and make the dress over winter so it’s ready to wear next spring. Obviously to grow the fiber and dye it, requires a level of ambition that would be quite hard to promote as a mainstream experience. Die gewählte Schrift ist nur schwer zu entziffern und das macht das Lesen enorm anstrengend, weswegen ich dem Buch nur 4 Sterne gegeben habe.

If you went through the journey of making the garment, you would never throw it – you would mend it, pass it along to family and friends, it becomes a part of you and you become a part of it.For example, madder – it can be harvested only three to five years after growing and the roots are used to obtain the dye.

Created in response to the twin dilemmas of food waste and fast fashion, the book is designed to teach readers how to grow their own food and how to get the most out of everything they grow. She has a clear, engaging vision of how we can live sustainably and shares this with warmth rather than worthiness. The final step is making the garment using all the patterns provided in a separate pocket within the book. The idea is to embody circular economy as something approachable – where you can capture its essence in the title of the book itself. Swap food waste and fast fashion for homegrown produce, delicious vegan dishes, and a contemporary capsule wardrobe with the help of Bella’s friendly, accessible approach to sustainable living.An important, beautifully made book about sustainable living that I found both timeless and incredibly relevant at the same time. Fashion designer who opened her made-to-measure studio in East London in 2012, creating fine clothes designed for longevity.