the beader's color mixing directory
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I have only written one other review, so I am not exactly prolific, but this book has really inspired me!!  It serves 3 purposes, first to inspire new and "outside you comfort zone" color combos.  Second, if you are into seed beads and designs that use them, some very inspiring project ideas, and third (the last chapter in the book - there are only 3) several very nice projects that use different colorways to give you more ideas!!!

It took REAL talent to combine all that inspiration into such a small book!!  Not really small as books go, but not exactly GIANT either.  I believe this book would do a great service to both beginners and experienced beaders alike.  I have been making jewelry since 1999, and I am VERY impressed with this beader's book.  You won't be sorry if you spring for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
575887
No complaints.  It's sounds like the patterns/colors are random.  I got a wide variety of patterns, but two were similar except for color.
4625396
Trish Burr does an incredible job in her craft. I found this book a very useful tool in color combining. As an artist that used to paint, I found it a lot different converting what colors worked with paint in comparison with threads. She takes the guess work out of it for me.
3758768
Love this book from Lsrk. A lot of beautiful pieces of beadwork. Highly recommend this for the avid beader. I am looking forward to creating jewelry from these designs.
3143836
Creative ways to use curved piecing. Full of color illustrations.
1212978
Another great color mixing recipe book. There's a mate to it with 2X the colors, but that might be for professionals who have a deeper need for finer chroma adjustments. This covers what I need at the moment as a beginner. Very good.
3459572
I'm just getting into making my own picture frames and I figured this would be a good guide to start with. :^)
2953816
This was a fun project to do.  Colorful and interesting, with easy charts to follow.  I'm very pleased with the product and would order others by Janlynn from time to time.
2885851
I bought 2 of these yesterday, one at Hobby Lobby and one at JoAnn's.  I spent last night sorting the beads.  The best I can tell, these are the 21 colors that are in this bucket:  Pink Candy Stripe, Zebra Stripe, Sky Blue Stripe, Black, White, Red, Dark Blue, Light Brown, Cheddar, Blush, Neon Orange, Yellow, Neon Yellow, Turquoise, Parrot Green, Neon Green, Kiwi Lime Green, Pastel Lavender, Purple Glitter, Magenta, and Transparent Turquoise.  I love the color selection!  Six of these (including all of the stripes) are colors that do not come in the 22,000 count bucket.  And personally, I love that there are no clear beads.&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Perler-Fun-Fusion-Bead-Jar-18-000-Pack-Multicolor/dp/B00VHHDF6G/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Perler Fun Fusion Bead Jar (18, 000 Pack), Multicolor</a>
433619
Creative weaving is a weaving book I especially like. It's for beginner weavers and shows various weaves by color and yarn type. What struck me as prominent about this book is it shows, in closeup detail-photos, the actual lineup of yarns used, categorized by warp, then weft. This feature takes the mystery out of how to achieve a certain look in a fabric. I have poured over many weaving books and left mystified about how to achieve the look I desired-in a weave-specifically, regarding the type of yarn I needed to use, in the illustrated project. For the beginner weaver-like me-this feature provides real help. Weaving fabric is not just about weaving, but about the type of yarns used, and how to line them up on the loom, as well.

 In Creative Weaving, there's 30 projects; all are beautiful, eye-appealing designs. There's full page photos on every page with text thereupon. Creative Weaving is not a hardcore weaving book or "weave-opedia" on looming, but a must-have addition to the new weaver's library, on how to tie effects and weaves and colors via an "infomat" of instruction.

Creative Weaving is categorized by;
1. weaving technique
2. color scheme of finished item
3. individual detail photo of weft, then warp yarns used
4. weave effect desired

This reference book starts with a primer on looms, to include: washing the fabric, warp yarns, warp calculations, winding the warp, counting the threads, setting up the loom, tying to the back/front stick, winding on the back roller, and making the header. Also this section includes: how to achieve arching in the weft, creating an even selvedge, interlocking threads at the selvedge, joining a new weft thread, mending a broken warp, weaving with unspun fibers, three examples of embellishments, and Ghiordes (Turkish) Knots.

Types of weaving
 A. rigid heddle loom weaving
B. card loom weaving
C. peg loom weaving

Creative Weaving is divided into sections by color primarily. At each section there are three-four swatch examples. Within each respective section are two pages of instruction for materials/techniques needed to re-create each swatch. The instructions include;
a. equipment needed
b. reed gauge dpi
c. warp gauge
d. weft gauge
e. threading
f. weave type and other clarifications for looming
g. special features: on the loom, how to weave, and, the resulting characteristics of the fabric.

 Included is a "Gallery of Weaving," a glossary, a list of international suppliers, and an index.
1543268
I am in the process of reading this book, and find its discussion of color one of the best I've read. It makes clear why you'd want to use particular color schemes or colors, & the color problems that mixing some paints can produce. The only caveat that I have so far is that she appears to use aureolin and alizarin crimson and maybe rose madder which have questionable lightfastness for fine art--though they are very lovely pigments.

Other color books you might like to check out are Leland, Nita&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Exploring-Color-How-to-Use-and-Control-Color-in-Your-Painting/dp/0891348468/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Exploring Color: How to Use and Control Color in Your Painting</a>, Ames, Jim&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Color-Theory-Made-Easy-A-New-Approach-to-Color-Theory-and-How-to-Apply-It-to-Mixing-Paints/dp/0823007545/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Color Theory Made Easy: A New Approach to Color Theory and How to Apply It to Mixing Paints</a>, or Steven Quiller's Color books&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Color-Choices-Making-Color-Sense-Out-of-Color-Theory/dp/0823006972/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Color Choices: Making Color Sense Out of Color Theory</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Painter-s-Guide-to-Color/dp/0823039137/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Painter's Guide to Color</a>

-- Mick
1354567
Pro:  copius details about design principles.  Con:  lack of color photos -- too many black and white photos
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Glue Bound on left
Medium weight paper
Dimensions 8-1/2 X 11
Illustrations are Single sided
Non perforated
Recommended for beginner to advanced colorists

This book was given to me in exchange for a fair and honest review
209946
If you are a craftsperson, this is a terrific reference tool! The examples of spinning, beading, weaving, quilting, and embroidery really show you how color works in each realm. Best of all are the tear out color wheel and color harmony overlays that get you thinking about your palette.
1147340
A nice little reference book, however, there are NOT 500 different patterns in the book.  They use different color combinations with the same pattern in their count, so you're only getting MAYBE 200-300 different patterns, if that.  I was rather disappointed with that.
154143
Visually stunning!  I have some ideas I am putting together now.
Using the different textures of embroidery and beads will be fun.
I am movtivated!
1165767
This book begins with a presentation of 96 colors in a color wheel and then explores color combinations based on these 96 colors, plus grey which is added at the end.

The colors are divided in 22 groupings, according to the effect the colors would have: powerful, rich, romantic, vital, earthy, friendly, soft, welcoming, moving, elegant, fresh, traditional, refreshing, tropical, classic, dependable, calm, regal, magical, energetic, subdued, and professional.

Each grouping is represented with a particular color, containing a brief description of that color and its effect, and followed by color combinations which are sorted into monochromatic, primary, complimentary, analogous, split complimentary, split, clash, and neutral.  These color combinationas are provided in two formats - one that would remain in the book and another one consisting out of swatches, which can be taken out of the book.

At the end of the book are given CMYK values of 96 colors, plus 10 consisting of white, black and the nuances of grey.

All in all, the book is very well organized.