You can now pre-order my new book ‘Colour Your Palette’ via my on line shop. The book costs £25 (+ postage) and I expect to start shipping globally from the 10th November.

Colour Your Palette is a practical guide to understanding and using colour when specifically working with Procion MX dyes. But the principle behind the book, and the exercises it contains, could equally apply to other dye types. I have attempted to translate traditional colour theory, based on paints and paint pigments, into colour practice when using dyes. Because dyes do not behave like paints. Dyes are not a surface application where the colour is ‘stuck’ to the surface like paint on paper. Dyes penetrate right into our fabrics, our yarns, our fibres, and our threads reacting with them chemically at a molecular level. They don’t make our fabric stuff and they don’t fade when washed. Dyes are translucent - we can print or dye our textiles multiple times adding layers of texture and shape. But they do come with some limitations that mean the ‘rules’ for mixing colours when using paint are not the same as the ‘rules’ for mixing colours when using dyes.

Colour Your Palette is a ‘big’ book at 216 pages but my aim, in writing it, was to provide a guide that helps you achieve the results that you want time and time again. A guide that gives you all the information you need to create colours that make your heart sing!

To coincide with the launch of my new book I have added a selection of new products to my website. In addition to all the dyes and other chemicals I am now selling three sizes of screen (for screen printing), wide necked squeezy bottles (for storing thickened dyes) and acrylic mixing plates (for mixing small quantities of thickened dyes, mono-printing and so much more). And I have put together a range of Starter Packs with a 15% discount on the cost of the individual items. I’ll talk about these more in the coming days.

I have also added some new Wonky Print Inspiration Packs of my own printed and dyed fabrics.

And, just to remind you, I will be donating £1 for every copy of Colour Your Palette sold between the 1st and 10th November to The Trussell Trust, supporting food banks throughout the UK.

Thank you, and stay well, Leah x

PS. I have scheduled this post, and all the new products, to become public at one minute past midnight on the 1st …… or at least I think I have!