"Color by Accident" is designed to be used as a workbook and reference manual for the adventuresome. Beginning and experienced dyers will find "Color By Accident" to be an inspiring guide for creating one-of-a-kind fabrics not available commercially. It includes Five Variations on a versatile method and 54 tested recipes. NOT required are expensive equipment, dangerous chemicals or specialized studio space. Other books teach how to repeat a method and reproduce colors. This book points the way to exploring new color combinations and to achieving fabric that will be unique and visually complex. But be warned! As one of Ann's contemporaries reports, this process can be addictive.

Color by Accident: Low-Water Immersion Dyeing

Johnston, Ann

Ann Johnston

Fast, Simple, and Exciting... 
Color by Design shows you how to dye cottons and silks in an incredible range of colors and patterns--without changing the feel of your fabric. Using every tool imaginable--from brushes, sponges, stamps, and blocks to rollers, sprays, silk screens, and more--you will discover an endless array of techniques. Right away you will be able to create your own distinctive marks and colors, and with practice, you will create intricate designs with confidence and spontaneity. 
*.....Color by Design offers: *.....48 exercises with crystal-clear directions, step by step *.....Recipes that can be prepared ahead and instructions to store them *.....More than 120 color photos of sensational fabrics, with how-to captions *.....Information and options for more experienced dyers *.....Special chapters on water-soluble resists and on dyeing blacks

Color by Design: Paint and Print with Dye

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Speaking in Cloth offers you the opportunity to visually and intellectually enter the worlds of six Northwest quilt artists. It is an invitation to respond to their use of cloth and thread as they tell their stories and record their explorations. Each chapter addresses a question that they are often asked, and that they often ask each other. The artists hope you will draw on your own experiences to extend this conversation. ...Why do you choose the language of fiber and thread to make your art? ...Do you find yourselves working with recurring themes over time? ...Is there a visual voice that identifies your work? ...What is your working process? ...What are the challenges and joys of making your art? ...Does it matter if the quilt communicates a specific meaning to your viewers?

Speaking in Cloth: 6 Quilters, 6 Voices

Jeannette DeNicolis Meyer

Arts & Photography

The Quilter's Book of Design, Second Edition ...A serious and accessible guide through design fundamentals ...Over 350 examples, all images made of fabric ...Oriented to developing each person's individual voice ...Brief end-of-chapter workshops ...Starting-place techniques and full-length projects

The Quilter's Book of Design, 2nd Edition

It’s Fast, Simple, and Exciting... Color by Design: Paint and Print with Dye shows you how to dye cottons and silks in an incredible range of colors and patterns—without changing the feel of your fabric. Using every tool imaginable—from brushes, sponges, stamps, and blocks to rollers, sprays, silk screens, and more—you will discover an endless array of techniques. Right away you will be able to create your own distinctive marks and colors, and with practice, you will create intricate designs with confidence and spontaneity. The updated Second Edition includes two all new chapters about mixing and dyeing blacks and about preparing and using corn and potato dextrin, the most versatile water-soluble resists. Color by Design offers: • 48 exercises with crystal-clear directions, step by step • Recipes that can be prepared ahead and instructions to store them • more than 150 color photos of sensational fabrics, with how-to-captions • Information, tips, and options for more experienced dyers

Color by Design: Paint and Print with Dye Second Edition