Bringing the principles of colour theory down to a usable level, this text applies them to knitting, spinning, weaving, surface design and much more.

Part travelogue, part narrative history, this work unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This book looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.

Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this book presents ideas of colour experimentation, featuring thirty colour studies, with Albers' unabridged text, demonstrating such principles as colour relativity, intensity, and temperature; vibrating and vanishing boundaries; and the illusion of transparency.

Colour index is a wealth of colourful creativity at a glance, containing over 1100 colour combinations and formulas to help you solve design dilemmas and create more effective graphics. From progressive colours to natural tones, it aims to make choosing hues for any job easier.

A paperbound edition of Deb Menz's classic guide to colour for handspinners is finally here! Menz offers a technically savvy yet accessible tutorial on working with colour and fibre. Included are in-depth discussions and illustrated demonstrations of immersion dycing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. Whether you're a novice or an ...

An exploration of using colour in quiltmaking. The chapters discuss 14 colours, their characteristics, and the combinations that make them look good in a quilt design. Sample fabric arrangements are provided to make colour concepts easy to understand and there is a gallery of over 70 quilts.

A rhythmic story that features coloured artwork and animals. It presents an introduction to looking and learning about colours. It helps young children delight in colourful collage animals and simple repetitive language.

A course in mastering the art of mixing colours.

Discusses 'colour in art', its inception, the progress made, and its influences on art.

Blue has a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. This work traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearances in prehistoric art to its international ubiquity in blue jeans and Gauloises cigarette packs. It tells the history of our favorite color and the cultures that have hated it, loved it, and created great art with it.

It's a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie beneath the surface!

Presented in a boxed set format, this work brings together all 5 volumes of the series.

Revised and updated, this work considers every aspect of the subject in an analysis of colour in Western culture. It describes the first theories of colour, articulated by philosophers from Democritus to Aristotle, as well as looking at its religious significance, and the role of colour today.

From the 40000-years-old painted caves at Lascaux and the medieval cloth trade to the synthetic chemistry of modern times, colour making has been central to our lives. This book surveys the history of dyes and pigments, the invention of new colours, and the industries that fuelled them.

Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors. Shipped to Europe, the dye produces the brightest red the world had ever seen. The English, the French, and other Europeans tried to crack the enigma of cochineal. Did it come from a worm, or a seed?