THE ART OF COLOR: New Edition by Johannes Itten

Deb Menz, has created an essential manual for any hand spinner who wishes to add color to handspun yarn through immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending, carding, and/or plying yarn to create a product unavailable in any store.

Archaeologist and ethnologist Anne Varichon takes the reader on a fascinating journey that examines not only the variety and use of natural colorants and how to reproduce them today.

Mix and play using some simple, basic color principles – and there’s no limit to the possibilities.

Cushing Perfection Acid Dyes for Cellulous Fibers

Cushing dyes for Protein fibers, such as wool, silk Used by Rug Hookers, Spinners, Dyers and Weavers!

Topics include: Becoming Ambidextrous, Steeks, Shaping and Scissors, The Mysterious Gully, and Short Row Techniques

Textiles Handbook NATURAL DYES Linda Rudkin This book is part of the popular Textile Handbooks series and is a complete how-to-do-it guide to obtaining a wide range of colors from natural dyes.

Knitting patterned socks with the commercially dyed yarns sold for this purpose is a breeze. But what do we do when we want the complicated patterned effect with our white handspun or some special yarn?