However, it is challenging to live that way or even do the whole process of the book in just one season. Bella Gonshorovitz is a prize-winning fashion designer and dressmaker who has worked with Alexander Wang and Gucci. Each chapter focuses on one crop from sowing, cultivating and harvesting, to several delicious recipes, to notes on dying with examples of the range of colours that can be achieved.

This beautifully produced book would make a wonderful gift for anyone interested in horticulture, fashion or cooking. We hope to be an inclusive company and strive to create an environment that is welcoming and embraces diversity, both with our online presence, the makers we represent, our physical pop-ups events and our collaborations.Also used in food processing, alum is not poisonous in small quantities and it is a natural mineral.

My wife uses natural botanicals to dye Irish wool as a hobby, but does enough of it that we built a free-standing wool dyeing studio (she-shed) for her. Modifiers are interesting because when you dye something, it is very rare to get two identical results. 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. Die gewählte Schrift ist nur schwer zu entziffern und das macht das Lesen enorm anstrengend, weswegen ich dem Buch nur 4 Sterne gegeben habe. BG: Demystifying and personalizing circularity is one of the key objectives of this book, and for that, there is no better place to start than the soil.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The aim here isn’t for readers to grow all of their vegetables, hand make all clothes, or even convert to a strict vegan diet. The book will guide you through every step of the process, you will learn not only how to forage, sow, harvest, and cook your own fruits and vegetables, but also how to use your homegrown produce to create natural dyes. When you hand-make something, from the book, it’s about the experience of creating the garment – think about the onions that grew from seeds, a process which took months.

She has a clear, engaging vision of how we can live sustainably and shares this with warmth rather than worthiness. It shows this wonderful concept that absolutely nothing is waste, everything that comes from the land or nature can go back to nature. Whether you choose to grow your own food or not, the recipes, tips, and sewing patterns in this book are guaranteed to inspire and delight. If you are interested in slow fashion, growing your own food, vegan recipes and producing less waste this is the book for you. Though working with upcycled fabric is efficient, because natural dyes work great in obscuring stains.

Onion is a great choice, as it can be cultivated easily and if people lack space to grow it, it’s common enough to be able to source skins. I also found some extremely useful tips and clear explanations even as someone who is not very familiar with many of the concepts or techniques in the book.

It is about establishing a more intimate connection with nature and finding a new perspective on mass-produced products. In that context, this book attempts something radical – clothes emerging from the processes of this book say more about the past rather than the fantasy of the future. Inhaltlich hat mir das Buch so gut gefallen, dass ich es mir nach der Kindle-Version noch in Buchform bestellt habe. As you grow vegetables, they draw their nutrients from the earth, so if you don’t replenish them your land will soon be depleted, resulting in a poor harvest and disease. I was inspired by Bella's unique proposal for growing, cooking, and making clothes in an elevated and stylish way.

Not only can we use this rubbish to create new plant life, but the fact that it nourishes insects and grows more food is inspiring. The common phenomena now is that people wear things once and then throw it away, particularly in the UK. AS: You introduce ‘a miniature circular economy’ – what are the challenges in adapting this into daily lifestyles? The garment patterns are included in a folder within the book and are for a dress, a duster jacket, a bolero, a shirt (dress) and a pair of shorts.