Product Description

Author Ruth Issett is one of the world's leading colourist in textile art today. Her stunning colour combinations defy colour rules and she shows you how to experiment with techniques to get the very best out of any textile work. The book is aimed at all those involved in textiles - embroiderers, patchworkers and textile decorators, as well as students and teachers of design. Lavishly illustrated with colour photographs of finished fabrics, this simple colour 'recipe' book gives guidance and reassurance on the technical aspects of colour and dyeing. It shows how to dye different natural fabrics, including heavy cotton, silk, satin, linen, and cotton velvet as well as threads. It offers colour mixing and inspiration: colour combinations; tones, tints, shades; and, complementary schemes. It offers detailed guidance on the dyeing processes, including equipment, shades, colour families, over-dyeing, pre-treatment of fabric, and fabric types.It provides ways of applying dye from the very, very simple onwards. It features: techniques, including the various types of resists as well as discharge and bleached effects; and, advanced techniques and combinations, including the use of thickeners and over-dyeing. This is the ultimate book on adding colour to fabric new in paperback. It explores the creative possibilities of applying dye to fabric. It is packed with dye 'recipes' and practical, in-depth technical information. It also features beautiful colour textile pieces to inspire and instruct.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40183 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Renowned for her use of colour, Ruth Issett is acknowledged as one of the UK's best textile artists. She teaches and lectures internationally and is a member of the prestigious textile artists' collective the Practical Study Group. She has written three previous books for Batsford, including Print, Pattern and Colour 9780713490374, and writes regularly for leading embroidery magazines. She also exhibits widely and takes on private commissions. She lives in Shropshire.

Customer Reviews

User friendly and inspirational
I've wanted to dye my own fabrics for ages but have always been slightly daunted by the instructions given in other books. This book makes it seem easy and has given me the confidence to try out several of the techniques described. This is already saving me a fortune as it's much cheaper to buy plain fabrics and threads and dye my own - and I can create the colours and textures that I want rather than make do with what's available.

The book ranges from very simple techniques to the more advanced - including space dyeing, tie-dyeing, printing and use of resists. I easily tracked down the more specialised materials using the suppliers listed in the back of the book (much of what you need can be found in the local supermarket).

Note that the book only deals with cold water dyes.

Colour on Cloth
This book is a fantastic resource book. Full of beautiful pictures and tons of useful wasy to dye cloth. It looks at the types of dyes suitable for use and how to prepare them in simple step by step instructions. It also covers different types of fabrics to try and provides hundreds of different techniques to use. I believe this is an ESSENTIAL book for anyone interested in colour. An excellent teaching guide.Highly recommended.

A visual delight
The presentation of colour in this book is amazing. There is also information on a range of techniques that are covered in greater detail in other publications. It is a taster into the art of colouring fabric, and as such contains some useful information, although some of the dye products listed are already no longer available. Worth buying if you like a colour treat which I do.