WELCOME to the exciting world of colorful creations. This fabric designseries is a compendium of designs and techniques for creating art on almost any kind of fabric. It is easy and fun for any experience level, especially for beginners These ideas are based on earth-friendly pigments thatyou canuse at home at your own kitchen table. No caustic substances are used. No special ventilation is needed. It's quickto set up andto playwith thepigments and things from around your house. Dye and color the fabrics around you. Make real artfor your walls. Color, recolor, or redesign curtains, table linens, old bed sheets, quilt fabrics, art fabrics, clothes, and thrift store finds.Your choices are only limited by your imagination.The colors you use are permanent and washable on any kind of fabricblends: cotton, polyester, or synthetic.They can alsobe used on leather, suede, lace, feathers, or trims. This book is for thehomeartist orfor artists who choose todevelopmore technical skillsfromstudy and practice.Certain basic techniques are the foundation for more complex layers of color and methods of application. Later chapters show design techniques based on these foundational skills. Youwill soon begin to understand how much is possible with very simple tools and techniques. When you get to know your imagination and set it free you will find thatit is UNLIMITED This vast resource of creativity is inside everyone and blesses us all because it can produce the greatest gifts you give yourself and others."