Due to unfortunate circumstances our scheduled speaker, Bettina Matzkuhn, was unable to join us. She is rescheduled to present at our April meeting.

In her stead we viewed the latest DVD documentary from Maiwa Productions entitled: In Search of Lost Colour — the story of natural dyes. This lovely documentary described the main sources of natural dyes from both plants and animals, the use of mordants and the importance of dyes in the history of exploration, trade routes, farming and development. Given current the competition with chemical dyes, the challenge of maintaining the recipes and expertise of natural dyeing throughout the world was also discussed.

This DVD is in our library so members may check it out for a more in depth review.