Title: Color your cloth : a quilter's guide to dyeing and patterning fabric /
Authors: Dubrawsky, Malka.
Publisher: Lark Books,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Dyes and dyeing, Domestic.; Dyes and dyeing Textile fibers
Abstract: Award-winning artist Malka Dubrawksy presents a bold, modern take on dyeing, geared especially to quilters and fiber artists. Shes whipped up a variety of easy patterning techniquesincluding resist, discharge, and overdyeingfor creating one-of-a-kind fabrics, as well as more than a dozen simple projects that use the vibrant cloth. How-to photos accompany the text, which focuses on sources of inspiration, tools and materials, dyeing recipes, and the surface design techniques themselves. Stunning images from the authors sketchbook and photos of her workspace provide quilters with additional motivation.
Contents: At first glance: an introduction to the process -- Finding inspiration -- Creating a workspace -- Techniques for adding pattern to fabric -- Basic dyeing technique -- Finishing up: aftercare for waxed and dyed fabric -- A few sewing how-tos -- Projects to make.