A paperbound edition of Deb Menz's classic guide to color for handspinners is finally here! Menz draws on 20 years of experience teaching and experimenting with color techniques to offer a technically savvy yet accessible tutorial on working with color and fiber. Written expressly for the handspinner seeking new adventures in color, this comprehensive manual presents in-depth discussions and step-by-step photographed demonstrations of immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations. And for those spinners who are color challenged, a useful chapter on understanding color principles will give you the skills needed to easily work with color. Whether you're a novice or an expert, no spinner's library is complete without this book.

"An essential manual for any handspinner who wishes to add color to handspun yarn.... Highly recommended." – Library Journal

"Through gorgeous illustrations, in-depth discussions, enjoyable text and detailed tutorials, this book has everything a fiber artist needs to learn about color in handspinning. I'm at a loss as to what Deb Menz left out of this impressive book...." – Cara Randall, BellaOnline

Deb Menz is an accomplished artisan, teacher, and author. Since writing Color in Spinning (the hardbound edition) in 1998, Deb has gone on to write a second book, Color Works (Interweave Press, 2004), which is a guide to using color in several craft mediums. She lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.

Paperbound, 8 1/2 x 11, 240 pages, more than 300 color and black-and-white photographs, 55 illustrations, ISBN 1-931499-82-9