Nature’s Gentle Colors Close to Home by Judy Saye-Willis

The booklet Nature’s Gentle Colors Close to Home by Judy Saye-Willis is a brief overview of locally sourced dye materials and pigments from plants, trees, food scraps. She also looks at dyestuffs that are available from natural dye suppliers who provide materials from sustainable sources. The booklet provides color images and an explanation of local dye plants and materials. Whether you are a weaver, painter, or textile artist, the booklet is meant to raise awareness to the availability of color from other sources besides fossil fuels and provide inspiration to find your own colors close to home.

Judy Saye-Willis is a textile artist and educator and has lived in rural Minnesota her entire life. She knows and loves her local landscape and inspired by the forced hiatus during the pandemic, wrote and produced this sweet book.