How to Select Color Palettes for Knitting and Other Fiber Arts
Author: Nancy Shroyer
Publisher:
Published: 2003-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780976812708
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Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom
Author: Syne Mitchell
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-11-14
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1603428518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRigid-heddle weaving is simple to learn, is easy to master, and offers a lifetime of possibilities to discover! Inventive Weaving on a Little Loom covers everything rigid-heddle weavers need to know about the craft, from the basics — how to select a loom, set it up, and get started — to a wide variety of fun techniques that yield beautiful results. Begin by exploring a variety of weave structures, including finger-manipulated laces, tapestry, and color play with stripes, plaids, and multicolor yarns. Then move on to more complex designs and irresistible projects, from pillows and curtains to bags, shawls, and even jewelry. Explore warp-face patterning, weft-pile weaving, weaving with fine threads, woven shibori, shadow weave, and the textural effects you can create with different yarns and with wire and conductive thread. Everything you need to know is here, with fully illustrated step-by-step instructions to ensure success.
Colour Confident Stitching
Author: Karen Barbé
Publisher:
Published: 2017-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781910258651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChoosing colours for a crafting project can be daunting and creating colour palettes is a design task in itself but textile designer Karen Barbé's explanations makes it a fun and enjoyable part of the process
Mastering Color Knitting
Author: Melissa Leapman
Publisher: Potter Craft
Published: 2011-07-13
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 030796549X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the reasons knitting and colorwork master Melissa Leapman first learned to knit was her wish to make one special project—a sweater using Fair Isle technique. Now, for the first time, she brings her passion for advanced color knitting to knitters who want to knit with any and every color of yarn they can wrap around their needles. Conquer classic stranded knitting, “draw” images in yarn using intarsia, and make two projects in one with reversible double knitting. Leapman’s clear instruction proves that knitting with multiple colors may appear more complex, but it doesn’t have to be difficult. She includes the quickest, easiest, and most intuitive methods for each technique, using knowledge honed over years of color knitting workshops with knitters from across the country. Once you’ve learned the basics, practice your new skills by creating projects for yourself, your friends, and everyone on your gift list. Each chapter includes a handful of sample projects to get you started, a Designer Workshop that teaches you important concepts in every designer’s toolbox, and a pattern treasury of unique patterns to apply to projects of your own creation—more than 50 patterns and 12 projects in all. Throughout, Leapman’s helpful collection of how-tos, diagrams, tips, and hints (including a refresher course in color theory to help you choose the perfect color combinations) makes Mastering Color Knitting the book you’ll turn to for information and inspiration time and time again.
Fair Isle Style
Author: Mary Jane Mucklestone
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-08-09
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1620334763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailing from a tiny island in the northern most island group of the British Isles, Fair Isle knitting has been produced for nearly 200 years and is still seen on runways today. Discover true Fair Isle knitting and build fantastic colorscapesâ€"from elegant subtle shadings inspired by the natural landscape to exuberant riots of color for its own sake. Fair Isle Style is a book of projects to knit as well as a book about knitting the Fair Isle technique. This book offers a collection of patterns from a variety of established, rising, and new knitwear designers and focuses on fresh, modern uses of color for today's knitters. A Design Notebook rounds out the book, giving readers further ideas to use Fair Isle knitting. Delight in a modern look from a traditional technique with Fair Isle Style.
The Colorwork Bible
Author: Jesie Ostermiller
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2020-10-06
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0593327977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaster beginner and advanced colorwork knitting techniques in this comprehensive colorwork guide With chapters outlining more than a half dozen colorwork knitting techniques, The Colorwork Bible is your updated exploration of both beginner- and advanced-level skills with a vibrant, modern palette and inspired projects. Join knitwear designer Jesie Ostermiller as you learn: • A variety of small-scale swatch lessons that help you master a technique before diving into a full size project. • Stripes, stranding, Fair Isle, brioche, slip-stitch, mosaic, intarsia, and more! Each technique is featured must-make projects you'll want to cast-on today. • Valuable tips and tricks, plus essential information on successfully combining colors for the best possible results. Dig deep into the most colorful techniques in knitting with The Colorwork Bible!
Color and Fiber
Author: Patricia Lambert
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiber 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 light and color as preparation for the problems, projects and ideas which follow. The second section describes how light, dye and pigment work with fibers because individual fibers, yarns and fabrics differ in their responses to light and color. The ability to solve color problems depends on the artists' understanding of the fiber's light and color relationships. The third section presents the practical applications for the information gained in the first two sections. Besides color mixing and special effects such as iridescence and opalescence, this section examines projects that artists or classes can do to understand color's part in determining spatial effects, emotional impact and color systems.
Prepared to Dye
Author: Gene Shepherd
Publisher: Ampry Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1881982920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDye wool without chemicals How to dye wool with acid dyes Gene's tips and techniques for dyeing yarn and wool yardage Essential for all wool fiber artists, especially those working in rug hooking, wool appliqu�, or quilting with wool Learn how to marbleize, spot dye, marry colors, and casserole dye to make exquisite wool
Color in Spinning
Author: Deb Menz
Publisher: Interweave
Published: 2005-04-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781931499828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten expressly for the hand spinner seeking new adventures in color, this 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. A chapter on understanding color principles offers novice spinners the skills needed to easily work with color while providing advanced spinning techniques for the expert dyer. A gallery of finished pieces as well as appendixes on dye workshops and metric conversions are included.
Krokbragd
Author: Debby Greenlaw
Publisher:
Published: 2019-03-02
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781796655469
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeavers around the world have been searching for a book that explores the delightful motifs of the Scandinavian weaving technique known as krokbragd. Krokbragd: How to Design & Weave fills that niche and provides a comprehensive look at this beautiful weaving technique. In this book, Debby Greenlaw brings together the traditional aspects of krokbragd with a fresh, contemporary approach to creating stunning textiles. You will explore the structure and design of krokbragd for the floor, table, and rigid-heddle looms. In addition to traditional single krokbragd, exciting variations such as double point krokbragd and turned krokbragd are also covered. Each topic is supplemented with a project that allows the weaver to gain hands-on experience with the technique.Krokbragd: How to Design & Weave is filled with weaving tips, detailed illustrations, and step-by-step photography. Debby provides guidance on yarn and color selection, design, and finishing techniques to create and weave uniquely personal krokbragd pieces.Whether you're a weaver or a lover of Scandinavian textiles, you'll enjoy Krokbragd: How to Design and Weave. Add it to your library; you'll be delighted!
