Color and FiberFiber 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. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 8 |
V | 17 |
Light color mixing with light light and colorants color mixing with dyes | 23 |
Copyright | |
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acid dyes acrylic afterimage analogous appear areas Azoic blue blue-violet chemical color effect color temperature combination complement complementary afterimage cotton create cyan dark darker direct dyes disperse dyes dominance dye molecules dyebath dyed fabric fiber artist fiber molecules Figure filament finish floats gray green hue circle intense color interreflection iridescent leno weave light reflectance lighter linen low-intensity colors luster lustrous magenta man-made fibers Mary Fry Photo modulation MYC system negative afterimage novelty yarn optical blend optical mixtures orange paint parent colors Patricia Lambert pattern pigment pile plain weave polymers primary produce quilt rayon reflect light relative value result RYB system satin stitch scale shades shape silk simultaneous contrast space spectrum spun stitches stripe structural color subtractive surface texture technique temperature thread tints twist undertone vat dyes viewer violet visible spectrum visual wavelengths wavelengths of light weft weft yarns white light wool woven yellow