Color Performance in Textiles: A Guide to Fiber, Fabric, and Sustainable Design in Textile Chromatics

Color Performance in Textiles: A Guide to Fiber, Fabric, and Sustainable Design in Textile Chromatics is a clear and practical guide to understanding how fiber, structure, chemistry, and sustainability shape color performance in textiles.

Color Performance in Textiles offers a complete look at how color behaves throughout the textile process, starting from the fiber itself and continuing through yarn, fabric construction, finishing, and final use. The book helps readers understand how fibers, dyes, chemicals, and surface structures influence color absorption, reflection, and long-term stability. It is written for designers, textile professionals, students, and product developers who want to make confident and informed color decisions.

The content explains how different fiber types interact with dyes, why colorfastness varies between materials, and how environmental exposure or finishing treatments affect color performance. Readers learn about wash, rub, light, and perspiration tests, along with the influence of fiber morphology and fabric structure. The book also covers color theory, visual perception, and digital color workflows in a practical and accessible way.

The guide introduces natural colorants, low-impact dyeing technologies, and approaches that support responsible color development. It also encourages readers to consider emotional durability and circular design perspectives that shape the long-term experience of color in textiles. Examples, exercises, and illustrations connect scientific ideas with daily textile work. The book is presented in full color and includes diagrams, swatches, and visual explanations to support clear understanding of technical concepts.

Readers will learn how to:

• Select suitable dye types for cotton, silk, wool, polyester, and blended fibers
• Improve colorfastness under wash, rub, perspiration, and light conditions
• Recognize how fiber structure and texture influence dye behavior
• Apply visual color concepts such as hue, value, chroma, contrast, and harmony
• Incorporate sustainable color strategies using natural and modern low-impact systems
• Communicate color effectively across design, manufacturing, and marketing teams

The book supports both technical understanding and creative exploration. Readers are invited to experiment with materials, observe color behavior across structures, and discover new possibilities through dyeing, finishing, and printing processes.

Color Performance in Textiles comes with a promise. You will not simply read it. You will use it, reference it, and return to it again and again. Designed for clarity. Made to last.