The Rainbow Beneath My Feet

Author : Arleen R. Bessette
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815606802
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainbow Beneath My Feet written by Arleen R. Bessette and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rainbow Beneath My Feet includes step-by-step instructions to the process from collecting the mushrooms to dyeing the wool. There is an accurate and up-to-date description for each species along with over 200 color photographs. The scope of this work goes beyond the identification of species. The authors provide information about dyeing equipment, mordants, preparing and dyeing the wool, and the dazzling array of colors that can be obtained from mushroom.

Author : Arleen R. Bessette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815628811
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rainbow Beneath My Feet written by Arleen R. Bessette and published by . This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the best color-producing dye mushrooms in North America with step-by-step instructions to the process from collecting the mushrooms to dying the wool.

Author : Karen Leigh Casselman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486140377
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craft of the Dyer written by Karen Leigh Casselman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a complete guide to making your own dye from a wide variety of plants — acorn to zinnia. Covers dyeing procedures, mordants, preparing fibers, every step. List of suppliers. Bibliography.

Author : Phil Jenkins
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551991535
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beneath My Feet written by Phil Jenkins and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Mercer Dawson is a towering figure in Canadian history — and science — as the man who led the Geological Survey during its exploration of the Canadian West, mostly from horseback or from a canoe. A tough job for anyone, it was an extraordinary achievement for Dawson. Born in 1849, Dawson was crippled by a childhood illness that left him hunchbacked and in constant pain. He never grew taller than a young boy, and he never let his disabilities stop him. An avid photographer, amateur painter, professional geologist and botanist, and by necessity an ethnographer, Dawson wrote constantly: poetry, journals, reports, notes, and more than five thousand letters, his first at the age of six and his last just two days before he died in 1901. But Dawson never wrote his memoirs. So, a century after his death, Phil Jenkins has lent him a hand. Using Dawson’s own words, and filling in the gaps in Dawson’s voice, Jenkins presents the man who left his heart in western Canada. Their countless stories — from witnessing the last great buffalo stampede to encountering the timeless customs of the Haida — evoke the real excitement of the age of exploration. Dawson knew the pain of unrequited love, suffered the bite of a million mosquitoes, and yet he travelled on, over mountainous physical odds, to become one of the most respected and enjoyed of Victorian Canadians, in the thought-provoking times of Dickens and Darwin.

Author : Miriam C. Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604618020
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix written by Miriam C. Rice and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bill Martin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805054790
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knots on a Counting Rope written by Bill Martin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grandfather and his blind grandson reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse and an exiciting horse race.

Author : Alan E. Bessette
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477322728
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America written by Alan E. Bessette and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This the first color-illustrated reference to polypores and similar fungi specific to the eastern and central regions of the United States and Canada. Welcoming and comprehensive, it accurately presents the currently available information about polypores, emphasizes identification based primarily on macroscopic field characters, and includes observational data drawn from the authors’ extensive experience. It includes new species and genera; addresses changing nomenclature; and provides details about polypores’ biology, morphology, composition, role as parasites, interactions with various arthropods, and purported medicinal applications. The book also highlights how changes in geology, soil structure, and plant species due to factors such as continental drift and climate change have affected the evolution of polypores. Featuring more than 240 species of polypores, extensive and easy-to-use dichotomous keys, and more than 300 color illustrations and multiple maps and line drawings, Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America is a must-have for amateur and professional mycologists, forest service personnel, mycophagists, and anyone interested in learning more about this remarkable group of fungi.

Author : Fannie Flagg
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345478630
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standing in the Rainbow written by Fannie Flagg and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner; the oddly sexy and charismatic Hamm Sparks, who starts off in life as a tractor salesman and ends up selling himself to the whole state and almost the entire country; and the two women who love him as differently as night and day. Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs, the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the Oatman Family Gospel Singers. The time is 1946 until the present. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, right in the middle of the country, in the midst of the mostly joyous transition from war to peace, aiming toward a dizzyingly bright future. Once again, Fannie Flagg gives us a story of richly human characters, the saving graces of the once-maligned middle classes and small-town life, and the daily contest between laughter and tears. Fannie truly writes from the heartland, and her storytelling is, to quote Time, "utterly irresistible."

Author : Donald M. Huffman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297256
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States written by Donald M. Huffman and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This completely revised second edition provides all the information necessary to identify mushrooms in the field in the midcontinental region of Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin: the tallgrass prairies and the western parts of the eastern deciduous forests. The first edition has been improved in significant ways. The authors have updated scientific names, added photos where there were none and replaced poor photos with better ones, improved the keys, added some species and deleted others, added a section on truffles, and annotated the bibliography. There were originally 224 species; now there are 248. Some of the new photos—125 in all—serve as a second photo for a species, where it is helpful to show details that cannot be viewed in a single photo. The authors describe each species’ cap, gills, stalk, annulus, and season when it is most likely to be seen as well as such characteristics as edibility and toxicity. In their detailed and lively introduction they discuss the economic and environmental aspects of fungi, basic mushroom biology, nomenclature, edibility and toxicity, and habitats and time of fruiting. Most important are the keys, which lead the dedicated reader to the major groups of fungi included in this guide. The section on mushrooms includes keys to their genera in addition to the species within each family discussed, and each of the subsequent sections has a key to the genera and species except where so few species are discussed that a key is not necessary. The volume also includes a glossary and two bibliographies, one with general and one with technical references. Through their detailed technical descriptions and captivating color photos the authors convey their passionate fondness for these diverse and colorful organisms, whose mysterious appearances and disappearances have long made them objects of fascination.

Author : Maggie Pate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1624145876
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Natural Colors Cookbook written by Maggie Pate and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discover the wonder of nature's living colors and transform everyday items with The Natural Colors Cookbook, your guide to creating a spectrum of organic dyes using seasonal produce and leftover food."--Page 4 of cover.