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"Let's Get Started" Let's get started, by first becomming familiar with the following list of fiber art and rug hooking terms
and their meanings.
A list of artistic terms:
Analogous Colors: Colors that are adjoining or adjacent to the primaries, on the
color wheel: colors related by having the same family source or base. Yellow,
yellow ochre, yellow-green, raw sienna, raw umber, and brown are all analogous colors. Atmosphere: The general mood of a painting and the visible effect of air, weather, and
light on your subject.
Brilliance: The degrees of brightness found in colors. This ranges from the
maximum brilliance found in white to the zero brilliance found in black.
Chroma: The degree of brilliance or how much light the color releases.
Color Perspective: The effect achieved by allowing color to create the illusion of
depth.
Complementaries': Colors lying directly opposite each other on the color wheel: e.g.,
red and green, yellow and violet, blue and orange.
Composition: How the fiber artist puts a pictorial together so that the colored and
drawn shapes relate to and balance each other.
Cool Colors: Most blues, grays, and greens are cool because they suggest cool places,
such as water, ice, and sky.
Design: The style or pattern you use to construct your composition. The manner
in which you put together your pictorial.
Dyeing: Methods used to dye your materials, like wool, yarn, nylons, etc. with natural
dyes or acid dyes.
Dyeing Methods: Jar dyeing, casserole dyeing, crush dyeing, dip dyeing, graduation
dyeing, transitional dyeing, microwave dyeing, just to name a few. Each type of dyeing is a unique study and experience
of it's own.
Earth Colors: The earth colors are the toned-down variations of the more intense
primaries. Example: yellow dye mixed with tan dye and silver gray, will produce yellow ochre.
Form: The shape you give to the outside edge of a visual concept; such as the shape
of a vase, figure, fruit, cloud, or tree.
Grayed-down: The neutral, muted variation of a pure color. You create this color by mixing a little black, brown or its complement to the main color you wish to dye down. Or simply dye over different values of gray material. Half-Tone: The middle value of a color achieved by mixing color with its complement
or a little black: for example, red mixed with a little green or black; yellow with a little violet or black; blue with a
little orange or black.
Hue: Another term for the word "color." The name of the color; e.g. red,
orange, or green.
Intensity: The strength of color.
Line: The outside edges of forms. Lines are also directional: up, down, sideways,
and undulating.
Medium: In fiber art "medium" is simply the material through which the artist expresses
his/her ideas, such as wool, silk, panty hose, yarn etc.
Monochrome: A pictorial done in shades of one color. Opposite of polychrome.
Negative Space: The area surrounding the main subject or idea in the composition.
Polychrome: Any pictorial in several colors. The opposite of monochrome.
Positive Space: The solid area or form that is making the statement in the pictorial
(e.g. the face in a portrait).
The Primaries: Red, yellow and blue
Saturation: The full strength or intensity of a color.
Secondary Colors: The three colors mixed from the primaries: orange (red and Yellow);
green (yellow and blue); violet (blue and red). Shade: A darker version of a color, which you can use to create the illusion of roundness
and depth of a form.
Source of Light: The place or spot in your composition from which the light is emanating.
Swatch: A range in values from 3 to 12 (lightest to darkest) on strips
of wool, yarn or other materials. The color flows from one wool strip to the other created by using less of the dye formula for value 1 and increased amounts of the formula for value 2, etc. Tint: The lighter shade of a color (e.g. pink is a tint of red).
Three Dimensional: The height, width, and depth of the forms in a composition.
Two Dimensional: The height and width of the forms and spaces within the composition.
Undertone: The color when diluted with water.
Value: The colors as they scale from their lightest-toward white-and their darkest-toward
black.
Warm Colors: The colors that suggest heat, fire, or flames. Reds and yellows
are the warmest hues.
Wetting Agent: Dish detergent or synthropal that is used to presoak wool, yarn or
other materials that is to be dyed.
White Core: Is a condition that occurs when dyeing wool that was not presoaked long
enough or the dye bath was too hot when adding the dye solution to the wool.
Adaptations from Gilles Proulx, Art Professor, Hawkesbury, Ontario, Canada.
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