Fabric Dyeing Techniques and Fundamentals – Award Winning Book
By using Elin Noble’s Dyes & Paints: A Hands-On Guide to Coloring Fabric, you’ll learn techniques for fabric dyeing and patterning fabric to any hue, value, or design.
This is a comprehensive and award winning handbook that covers all the fundamentals of dyeing and coloring fabric with the MX fiber-reactive dyes and with textile paints.
Many of the techniques can also be adapted for yarn, ribbon, paper, basket reed, and even wood.
Editorial Reviews
“… a thoughtful and well researched book that will clarify conflicting information which has been accumulating over the years.” — Joyce Hayes, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot,, Spring 2001
“…It demystifies the chemistry and offers an array of alternative methods for accurately and creatively getting color into cloth.” — Jason Pollen, Surface Design Journal, Spring 1999
About the Author
Elin Noble is probably best known for her award winning book Dyes & Paints, winning the Independent Publishers best “How-To Book” award.
She has a BFA in Fiber from the University of Washington.
Her 20 plus years of dyeing fabric and keen interest in how things work add to her vast understanding of dyeing everything from feathers to paper pulp and, of course, fabric and yarn.
Elin is an expert in her field; she speaks regularly and has appeared on the popular PBS show “Lap Quilting” with Georgia Bonesteel.
What other Amazon buyers have said about this fabric dyeing book:
“Noble’s presentation of information is one of the best I have read to date. I greatly appriciate that all of the recipes you need for immersion dyeing to direct aplication are in one place”
“Great book. The techniques are clearly described and the writing is clear and concise”
“Very detailed book, includes a mix chart to make other colors”
“Love this book! Really helpful information….even for an experienced textile artist”
“This is a very helpful book that spans a wide range of how-to info. A must for any fabric dyer’s library”
This book is a hands-on guide to fabric dyeing. Dyeing and coloring fabric is exciting, captivating and extremely rewarding.
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