Dyes & Paints
     by Elin Noble

Dyes & Paints
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IPPY Award

The Independent Publisher Book Awards are conducted annually to honor and recognize the year's best independently published titles. Conceived as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, the IPPY Awards reward those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing. Dyes & Paints is the winner of the 1999 Independent Publishers book award for the best "How-To Book".

This comprehensive and award-winning handbook covers the fundamentals of dyeing cotton, rayon, linen and silk with the MX fiber-reactive dyes and textile paints.  Many of the techniques are appropriate for dyeing yarn, ribbon, paper, basket reed, and even wood. 

  • Informative troubleshooting information at the end of each section.  

  • Explanations of how to use, what they do, and why you need the different products. 

  • Mix colors to your hearts content and get close to the color you want by using the Color-mixing chart on page 45.  We've heard it really does work well and easily reproduces the colors in the book.

Flexibility and versatility are the two best words to describe the MX dyes.  This book includes 16 different patterning techniques.  It is truly a foundation book, that anyone working with dyes should not be without.

Retail Price $34.95
164 pages
Full color
Published 2003
ISBN: 0-9728252-07
First published by Martingale & Company


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Reviews about Dyes & Paints

 "... I highly recommend this book to anyone who is committed to working with MX dyes and/or fabric paints. It demystifies the chemistry and offers an array of alternative methods for accurately and creatively getting color into cloth. Elin Noble’s writing is warm and straightforward and helps us to understand easily an unusually complex subject."
       - Jason Pollen, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

"... an excellent hands-on reference manual that should be in a the collection of anyone working with fabric dyes."
       - Library Journal

"Although your dye book shelf is probably bulging, add this book for its excellent instruction and as a reference you will use over and over."
       - Lynn Lewis Young, Art/Quilt Magazine

"... a thoughtful and well researched book that will clarify conflicting information which has been accumulating over the years. "
       - Joyce Hayes, Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot

"I've been using Dyes and Paints for 3 years now in all of my Surface
Design Classes. I quickly found that it not only meets those basic needs but more specifically has excellent instructions for expanding the students color
abilities with dye. "
       - Laura Strand Mills, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville

"At last a textbook for Intro to Surface Design! Dyes & Paints covers all the basics, provides detailed answers to student queries and then becomes a reliable studio reference book for further exploration."
      - Barbara Goldberg, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, retired

"This is the book that we recommend most often to both new and experienced dyers. Dyes & Paints is clearly written and illustrated by one of the surface design industry's foremost dye experts. When we have technical questions about dyeing and painting on fabric, Elin is the first person we ask."
      - Debra Lunn & Michael Mrowka, Lunn Fabrics, Lancaster, OH 

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