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.
by Evelyn Neher
The eight systems discussed in their own chapters are:
Other chapters include "This, That & Other Things", "Antique Looms", and "Modern Looms".
314 pages, hardcover, more than 100 b/w photographs plus line drawings and many, many patterns and threading charts.
ALLA TIDERS TRASMATTOR (Great Rag Rugs). By Hallgren, Ann-Kristin and Monika Hallén.
1999. Sweden. An exciting idea-book with instructions for making 35 rag rugs to beautify the floors of your home.
STRIPES RHYTHMS COLOURS. By Lena Rahoult.
1996. Sweden. Swedish - born Lena Rahoult has worked with textiles in various ways. This exhibition focuses on the artist's own collection of traditional and older mattress weave, called 'bolster' ware in Swedish.
TRASMATTOR FRÅN HELA SVERIGE (Rag Rugs from All of Sweden). By Birgitta Fritz, ed.
1997. Sweden. Rag rugs, what a great creative way of re-using old materials into exclusive home textiles.
Learning to Weave, Revised Edition by Deborah Chandler
Since its first printing over a decade ago, Learning to Weave has become the standard text both for teachers and self-taught weavers.
Ashford Book of Rigid Heddle Weaving Revised Edition
by Rowena Hart.
International weaving teacher, Rowena Hart, shows how you can create exiting, beautiful garments and crafts - all on the simple two shaft loom.
In the book she guides you step-by-step through the many techniques, showing just how easy it is to make your woven creations come alive through color and texture.
By Barbara Foster. Approx. 6 patterns and 32 pages. This book takes you step-by-step with 85 full color photographs. Patterns include: Doily or collar edging, pillowcase edging, bookmark, medallion,butterfly, note card, and hanky edging.
by Janet Meany and Paula Pfaff. This classic book gives instructions for weaving a first rug, plus twenty traditional two- and four-shaft patterns.
A Handweaver's Pattern Book, by Marguerite P. Davison.
There is literally a lifetime of 4-harness patterns here.