Untangling Color: Applying Color Theory to Rug Hooking

By Carol Shewan 

Perfect bound

88 pages

List price: $29.95 U.S.

“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.” -Paul Gauguin 

Color can be mysterious, indeed! When it comes to the language of color, many get lost in translation. Do you ever feel like you just don’t have the “eye” for color planning your rugs? Perhaps you typically enlist the help of others for this step of the process—or if you do take on the challenge, you ultimately feel like you’re “winging” it.

Before studying color theory, author Carol Shewan felt much the same way. Her years-long exploration into the world of color helped her to see that anyone can use color theory to confidently select and adjust colors for their rug-hooking projects with a bit of training and lots of practice. Her new book, Untangling Color: Applying Color Theory to Rug Hooking is Color Theory 101 for rug hookers, and it will help you to demystify the process of deciding which hues to use to achieve the desired effects in your work.

With 13 patterns designed to help cement the concepts of color theory and chapters on the color wheel, value, chroma, backgrounds and neutrals, temperature, contrast, balance, and more, Untangling Color: Applying Color Theory to Rug Hooking is a foundational work that will help you untangle what you’ve heard about color and begin to work confidently with it. Gone will be the days of outsourcing and improvising; your journey into color begins here.