Catalogue : Books : Painting/ Dyeing and Colour

Eco Colour: Botanical dyes for beautiful Textiles by India Flint
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This book by internationally renowned dyer, costumier and artist India Flint draws on her two decades of experience and experimentation in natural dyeing techniques to present an expert, highly accessible and achievable handbook of ecologically sustainable plant dye methods using renewable resources - most of them to be found in the average home garden.

Eco Colour fills a gap in the existing literature and uses an exciting range of projects to demonstrate a variety of techniques, some of them entirely new processes developed by the author. Projects range from the simplest imaginable (solar dyeing, in which the fabric and dye material are placed in a closed jar and left for a few weeks in a sunny spot) to the positively romantic (dyeing with 'ice-flowers'). The result is a boundless range of pure, gentle, natural colourways produced with the least possible harm to the environment and the dyer. Hardback

Colorworks: The Crafters Guide to color by Deb Menz
$39.95 ($36.35)

The crafters guide to color 32 page interactive section with a pull-out colour wheel & more. The most comprehensive guide you will EVER find. Each section features the colourways in NINE different techinques such as quilting, beads, collage, paint etc leaving you in no doubt how it would work for your chosen technique. If colour is a challenge then colorworks is for you. Spiral bound, easy to use, a must have reference for all your textile work.

Print, Pattern & Colour by Ruth Issett
$49.95 ($45.45)

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This book is for everyone who wants to create printed fabrics and paper with glowing colours or exciting patterns. Whether you are a textile artist, a quilter, or a fashion or furnishing print designer, this book offers a range of techniques to create unique prints with pattern and colour.

It covers the simplest techniques to the more sophisticated: monoprinting, roller printing, screen printing, printing with everyday found objects, stencils (homemade and ready made) and rubbed and dyed effects. And, of course, how to combine the techniques to create designs with real punch.Hardcover, 128 pages.

Colour on Cloth by Ruth Issett
$49.95 ($45.45)

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This book takes you through various dyeing methods in very easy steps. As the stunning photographs show, gloriuosly colourful effects can be created on fabric using simple cold water dyes.

The range of techniques include direct dyeing, layered dyeing, painting with dye, pattern dyeing and folding techniques, using resists such as flour starch and potato dextrin and devore, in which fabric is 'burnt out' to create a textured effect.

This book will appeal to all those involved in textiles, such as embroiderers, quilters and textile artists, as well as students and teachers of design.