Sister Mary Ann Hill's Receipt Book: Nineteenth Century Shaker Dye RecipesSister Mary Ann Hill came to the Canterbury, New Hampshire Shaker Community as a little girl in 1811. By 1830, she was a Deaconess, and her responsibilities included the allotment of provisions, supplies, and clothing to the Community. The clothing part meant she learnt a lot about dyeing cloth, and back then, all color came from natural dyes. In 1857, Sister Mary Ann gathered all of her natural dye recipes into a hand written book. Two years later,