Mix the Color You Really Want – every time
Blue and yellow don’t make green? But we were taught that in school, and many times too!
If this is news to you, after reading this book by Michael Wilcox, you will discover why simply mixing blue and yellow usually doesn’t make the green you are looking for.  [...]

a review of Thai Silks and thaisilks.com
Thai Silks is the internationally famous storefront fabric shop in Los Altos, California. If you are fortunate to live near or be visiting the San Francisco area, be sure to allow 1-2 hours so you can drift around this amazing store.
The helpful and knowledgeable staff are all Thai, (when [...]

All About Silk -

written and illustrated by Julie Parker, (Fabric Reference Series), Rain City Publishing, 2000
All About Silk is a plain speaking, quality, information packed book. It tells you exactly everything you want and need to know about silk fabrics.
She was frustrated with conflicting textile definitions, confusing content labels, vague terms and industry [...]

Teddy Tracks Santa’s voyage using Google Earth Technology
Do you have some exquisite hand dyed cotton in your stash that seem just too beautiful to slash into?
A friend of mine, Terrilyn Green is an amazing person to stand beside when we we share a dyeing day. She is so liberal with the liquid fiber reactive dyes, [...]

Magic, Drama, Excitement
a book review of Katie Jane Widger’s guide to dyeing fabrics using fiber reactive dye
Right away I have to tell you that this book is hard to find. I’m writing this review because I feel The New Color Wheel Fabric Dyeing is among the three best dyeing books available for fiber artists who [...]

Pruning Sheers or Weed Wacker?
In February 2009, Google and other major search engines adopted new techniques to make web searching a better, cleaner and more consistent experience. Their goal is to clear out some of the clutter dawdling in the outer rings of cyberspace.
Their digital efficiency efforts got me thinking that maybe I should take [...]

Sunburns, Water Test Strips and Lipstick – What’s the Connection?
Most of us know if we have some degree of color blindness. The half percent of women and the 6 percent of men diagnosed as being color blind learn early in life to make compensations in color identification in their daily lives. It’s the tints and [...]