Colour Your Palette by Leah Higgins

Do you love using dyes to add colour to fabric, thread, yarn, or fibre, but find you don’t always get the colours, or results you expected?

Colour Your Palette is a book for artists, designers, and all those who want a better understanding of colour and colour mixing when using dyes. With step-by-step instructions, and photographs, detailing how to create a series of colour references that will inform your work, this book is a practical guide that gives you all the information you need to create the colours you want to achieve, accurately and reproducibly.

In this comprehensive book, containing over 350 images, you will -         

  • Discover the key differences between dyes and paints. And how colour theory, developed for paints and paper, can be translated into colour practice when working with dyes and textile.

  • Learn how to use thickened dyes to mix and scrape colour onto fabric, creating colour references that document hundreds of different colours.

  • Learn how to create multi-step exchanges between two starting colours.

  • Learn how to create colour families – a quick and easy way to develop a palette of 15 different colours by cross-blending dark, medium and light values of two starting colours.

  • Explore how different fabrics might take colour differently.

  • Look at artistic styles, colour schemes, colour harmony and colour proportion.

  • Through a series of colour studies, learn how to extract colour, or palettes of colour, from your own sources of colour inspiration.

  • Consider how you might use your colours, or palettes of colour, to print or dye fabric based on your preferred way of adding colour to textile.

  • Find step-by-step instructions for some of the dyeing and printing techniques used to create the samples featured in this book.

The book uses Procion MX dyes throughout but is equally relevant for other dye and fibre types.

Above all this is a practical guide to help you understand how to use and control dyes to achieve the results you want, but I hope it will also inspire you and provide all the knowledge you need to set off on your own personal exploration of colour.  

Cost = £25 + delivery (added at checkout)