Color by Design: Paint and Print with Dye

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. 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 and options for more experienced dyers ¿ Special chapters on water-soluble resists and on dyeing blacks. Ann¿s books, Color by Accident and Color by Design are all the information a dyer needs, classics in their field, user-friendly and well designed.Johnston, Ann is the author of 'Color by Design: Paint and Print with Dye', published 2001 under ISBN 9780965677615 and ISBN 0965677613.