1000 Botanical Colors: Make Your Own Dyes, Paints, Inks, Stains, and Pottery Paints from 250 Plants by Caleb Warnock

No need for store-bought paint when you can learn to make your own natural inks and dyes from plants and flowers.

Nature provides a rich palette of colors and tones from the plants and flowers around us. Join Caleb Warnock, creator of the Backyard Renaissance series, and create your own natural colors for painting on paper or pottery and dying cloth.

With swatches of each shade to find your perfect match, information about each of the over 250 plants, and detailed instructions to make your own paints, inks, and dyes, 1000 Botanical Colors is the home artist’s ultimate guidebook.

Caleb Warnock is the popular author of Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency, The Art of Baking with Natural Yeast, Backyard Winter Gardening For All Climates, More Forgotten Skills, Trouble's On The Menu, and the Backyard Renaissance Collection. He is the owner of SeedRenaissance.com and blogs at CalebWarnock.blogspot.com, where you will find a link to join his email list to learn more about forgotten skills. 

Paperback, 392 pages

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Published October 7th, 2025