Shibori: Creating Color and Texture on Silk (Crafts Highlights)

By Karren K. Brito

Book Overview

In Shibori: Creating Color & Texture on Silk, artist Karren K. Brito demonstrates the modern American rendition of shibori, or prismatic shibori, in which coloured silk is pleated and tied around a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823048152
• ISBN13: 9780823048151
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Potter Craft
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 10.5"

Customer Reviews

silk dyeing

Karren is a top notch dyer and her book is one of the best I've read on the subject. Lots of great info and even better, lots of eye-candy!

excellent book!

Shibori: Creating Color and Texture on Silk (Crafts Highlights) I got this book several months ago, and I am still excited to open it up and review some of the things I learned. the author actually has a PhD on Chemistry, so she explains how the dye works on silk very nicely. I am a scientist, too , so this style fit my way of learning very well. i would recommend it to beginner shibori enthusiasts :)

Excellent book on how to make shibori

If you want to make shibori, then you should have this book. While you are at it, order two, one for the studio and one for the library. I'm wearing out my studio copy. Brilliant ad beautiful. Clear, concise information that will light up your imagination.

Shibori: Creating color and texture on silk

Real eye candy! Good information on acid dyes and an excellent chapter on discharge techniques.

Education and Inspiration for Dyers and Fiber Artists

This book is a wonderful educational sourcebook for any dyer. The pieces shown in the book are elegant and sohisticated - grown folks fabrics. Mysterious, subtle, three-dimensional pieces. Silk is her fiber of choice yet the information in the book would be useful to anyone interested in dyeing any fiber. Admittedly I am a baby dyer, however I do have a lot of experience in the area of learning processes from books. This book is all I had hoped for and more. Ms. Brito tells us what her aims are in creating this book. Her aims happen to coincide with my desires as a student: to inspire the reader with the artistic possibilities of shibori and at the same time provide the reader with technical information on a level that high standards will become a natural occurrence as one begins to understand and learn this process.This book is not for the reader who is looking for shortcuts or baggie dyeing. Ms. Brito is a chemist and an artist. She explains the different dye types and processes very clearly. She even allows us to see her set-up. Discharge, various resist methods, overdyeing, setting texture and great photographs are only part of what this generous artist shares. She provides excercises that encourage observation and experimentation. That is how many of us are best educated. She offers formulas for different colors including neutrals so the reader has a good starting point. I don't want the reader of this review to think that the book is so technical that it is inaccessible. It is both technical and reader friendly. The book is also great eye candy. This book belongs in the library of all fiber artists!