:: July 2004 
Review
Color in Spinning
This is an amazing book for spinners! Deb Menz has written a 240-page book on understanding and using color in spinning that looks like an art book for your coffee table, but reads like a self-taught course on spinning, carding, and dyeing. Chapters cover color principles, immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibres with a drum carder, making multicolored yarns using drum carder or combing techniques, and spinning and plying multicolored fibre preparations. The coffee table chapter is the final gallery of finished pieces, including tapestries, garments, and accessories.
The thoroughness Color in Spinning is remarkable. When Ms. Menz discusses drum carding, she includes information on choosing a drum carder in addition to her description of using the tool. Similarly, when she discusses blending fibres, Ms. Menz describes a variety of fibres in detail. The unique qualities of wool, alpaca, llama, angora, mohair, camel, cashgora, cashmere, and silk are explained so that the fibreworker can understand what blending two or more fibres will produce.
Due to the breadth of the scope of Color in Spinning, it is really many books in one. If you are a spinner, buy it for yourself or put it on your Christmas list. If you have a spinning friend, buy it for him or her. If you do not spin and find it for a friend, CyberFibres warns you – if you browse through before you give it away, you may have to keep it and learn to spin yourself