"An essential manual for any handspinner who wishes to add color to handspun yarn.... Highly recommended." —Library Journal
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A paperbound edition of Deb Menz's classic guide to color for handspinners is finally here! Menz draws on 20 years of experience teaching and experimenting with color techniques to offer a technically savvy yet accessible tutorial on working with color and fiber. Written expressly for the handspinner seeking new adventures in color, this comprehensive 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. And for those spinners who are color challenged, a useful chapter on understanding color principles will give you the skills needed to easily work with color. Whether you're a novice or an expert, no spinner's library is complete without this book.
Deb Menz is an accomplished artisan,
teacher, and author. Since writing Color in Spinning (the hardbound edition) in 1998,
Deb has gone on to write a second book, Color
Works (Interweave Press, 2004), which is a guide to using
color in several craft mediums. She lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.
Paperbound, 8 1/2 x 11, 240 pages, more than
300 color and black-and-white photographs, 55 illustrations,
ISBN 10: 1-931499-82-9 ISBN 13: 978-1-931499-82-8
More Reviews:
"This comprehensive guide is absolutely essential for the handspinner who wants colour in his or her work."—KnitNet
"Through gorgeous illustrations, in-depth discussions, enjoyable text and detailed tutorials, this book has everything a fiber artist needs to learn about color in handspinning. I'm at a loss as to what Deb Menz left out of this impressive book...." —Cara Randall, BellaOnline
"Back in print at last… a lovely, impressive volume."—Textile Fibre Forum
"All I can say about this one is WOW! I learned way more than my money's worth with this treasure trove of information."—Spindle and Wheel online magazine
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