Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color Arras and warp-faced weaving

and warp-faced weaving

From beginners to expert weavers

With stunning photography of the dyes themselves

hardware to attach to the treadle

on eight or fewer shafts

Book of Earth: A Guide to Ochre, Pigment, and Raw Color Arras and warp-faced weavingBy Heidi Gustafson In this part rock guide, part art book, and part earth magic, "ochre whisperer" Heidi Gustafson welcomes us inside her rare working collection of more than six hundred ochre pigments (humankind's oldest art material) from around the planet. Heidi's poetic passion, field experience, and cross cultural relationships with other ochre stewards around the globe not only challenge how we interact with the inanimate world around us, but