The Secret Lives of Color, by Kassia St. Clair. This fascinating book takes you through the world of color and all its shades. St. Clair talks about and describes 75 shades, dyes, and hues, and tells each its story of origin, history, and interesting facts. Learn about the ties between Fluorescent Pink and early punk rockers, if Scheele's Green pigments were actually poisoning consumers, and is Heliotrope just fun to say, or is there a deeper meaning to the name? Find these answers and many more like them in The Secret Lives of Color.

hard cover, 320 pages.

For more history and interesting facts in the world of textiles check out St. Clair's other book The Golden Thread.