| Color in Spinning | 
 enlarge | Author: Deb Menz
Publisher: Interweave Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (15 reviews)
Sales Rank: 153754
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 1931499829
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.13
EAN: 9781931499828
ASIN: 1931499829
Publication Date: April 1, 2005
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Product Description
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.
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 Color in Spinning October 8, 2008
Deb Menz's book brings a scientific approach to concocting dye colors and than getting them on to wool. I have found her formulas easy to use and reproducible. Her instructions on blending colors on the drum carder are invaluable to a novice like myself. Her book is front and center in my dye studio and I refer to it regularly. NEK
Great reference October 1, 2008
I purchased this book after having borrowed it so many times. It is a wealth of information on how to blend colours and gives many great suggestions on how to prepare wool fibre for colouring and blending. I am a spinner who likes to experiment and this has given me so much more confidence in colouring and blending to achieve a specific result. Thoroughly recommend it to those who spin and like to create their own special colours in wool/fibre.
Excellent! July 2, 2008
As a beginning spinner I immediately began blending yarn to achieve the colors in this book and she's right! Everything I tried using the instructions in this book came out exactly the way I planned. There are lots of beautiful ideas here - I wish I had time to try them all!
Great book June 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Gave me so many ideas for dyeing and spinning my fiber. it has lots of info on colour theory. I do think it was missing more simple dying, and a lot of the colourways it shows have 10+ colours in them, but it is a GREAT resource.
Learned a lot about color, dyeing and fiber March 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Coming from a formal art background, I really appreciate this book. Not only does it cover the basics of dyeing and carding/combing well, but it also provides lessons in color (beyond the basic color wheel) where you directly see the results of mixing and using different color combinations. There are samples of finished knitted pieces using similarly-colored yarn yet with slightly different properties. Readers are encouraged to use the exercises for future self-directed study. Great cataloguing ideas are offered.
I highly recommend this book!
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