Quiltmaking, Weaving & Spinning, Textile Arts, Dyes & Dyeing
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Overview
Color in Spinning is a practical guide to color for handspinners. Deb Menz offers a technically savvy but thoroughly accessible tutorial on working with color and fiber. After introducing the reader to the basics of the color/fiber relationship, she moves on to in-depth discussions and demonstrations of immersion dyeing, painted rovings, blending colors and fibers with a drum carder, drum carding for multicolored yarns, multicolor combing techniques, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. This book will appeal to both the novice and the expert. The informed text and extensive illustrations work together to inspire the color fiend within us all.Synopsis
Written expressly for the hand spinner seeking new adventures in color, this manual presents in-depth discussions and step-by-step photographed demonstrations of immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. A chapter on understanding color principles offers novice spinners the skills needed to easily work with color while providing advanced spinning techniques for the expert dyer. A gallery of finished pieces as well as appendixes on dye workshops and metric conversions are included.
KnitNet
This comprehensive guide is absolutely essential for the handspinner who wants color in his or her work.
Editorials
KnitNet
This comprehensive guide is absolutely essential for the handspinner who wants color in his or her work.Knitting News
"This book is a must for spinners. It is also good for knitters interested in dyeing their own yarn for knitting."Spindle and Wheel
All I can say about this one is WOW! I learned way more than my money's worth with this treasure trove of information.Library Journal
In this day and age, when we are deluged with titles purporting to be "the complete book of...," here is a book that might accurately have been titled The Complete Book of Color in Spinning. Drawing on 20 years of experience learning and teaching color techniques for handspinners, Menz has created an essential manual for any handspinner who wishes to add color to handspun yarn through immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending, carding, and/or plying yarn to create a product unavailable in any store. Included are 150 color photos, line drawings, and a gallery of pieces incorporating techniques discussed in the book. A very practical book, with step-by-step instructions, dye formulas, and a good selection of self-study exercises at the end of each chapter; highly recommended for textile collections.JZBook Details
Published
April 1, 2005
Publisher
Interweave Press, LLC
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781931499828