Color and Fiber

by Patricia Lambert, B. Staepelaere, Barbara Staepelaere

Fiber artists will welcome this opportunity to learn how to use and control color with this monumental and exquisitely beautiful book. Whether they stitch, quilt, weave, work in macrame, hook rugs, knit, crochet, or experiment in mixed media, the artists will benefit from the authors' techniques for solving color problems. Color and Fiber is divided into three sections. The first section presents essential terminology, ideas, and definitions about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887400655
• ISBN13: 9780887400650
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Craft
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 3.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.9" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

colour knowledge

This is an interesting book for anyone studying or working with textiles. Whatever discipline you work with, stitch, quilt or mixed media and so on, this book shows you how to control colour. Intelligently written and well-illustrated (though largely in black and white) the book will guide you through the processes of understanding terminology, discovering how colour and fibre work together and finally practical applications. Some interesting effects are revealed, encouraging the fibre artist to experiment. Discover a new world of colour.

Educating!

Having read this book, I know quite a lot more about color, light, their causes and traits, and their physical and psychological effects on people. I'm not really into fiber and weaving, but as a painter, I found the information about color to be highly enlightening!