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The Textile Artist: Expressive Stitches A No - Rules Guide To Creating Original Textile Art
The Textile Artist: Expressive Stitches A No - Rules Guide To Creating Original Textile Art
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Description: Transform your ideas on creative fabric embellishment for textile art that's full meaning and astounding texture in this inspiring book by award - winning textile art tutor and artist Jan Dowson. Whether it's a landscape a garden an animal or a powerful memory of a place or object Jan shows you how she develops them all into beautifully stitched representations that exude awe - inspiring detail colour and expression. Discover Jan's unique sketchbook process where she stores and collects natural items and explores different patterns textures media and markings to cultivate her final design. See her simple yet effective methods for transforming her fabric for stitching including dyeing embellishing and stamping. Then watch her transform an unassuming square of fabric into a contemporary piece of art brimming with colour texture and extraordinary stitched markings - all made through the combination of traditional sewing techniques and other media. Following a fascinating illustrated step - by step chapter on Jan's key techniques join her as she takes you through the stages of three types of work for which she is most renowned - the stitched landscape the memory cloth and the bird sculpture. Each project also includes a break down of the materials tools and techniques used so that can understand as well as see the development of her astounding mixed - media creations. Throughout the book a gallery of Jan's work complements her techniques and projects showing how to truly push the limits on your stitcheries. These are stunning pieces that will open your eyes and turn your own creative concepts into original personal work.
Title: The Textile Artist: Expressive Stitches A No - Rules Guide To Creating Original Textile Art
Author(s): Dowson Jan
Publisher: Search Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781782217503
Pages: 144 Pages, 128 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 2/9/2021
Series: The Textile Artist
Category: Embroidery Crafts
Description: Transform your ideas on creative fabric embellishment for textile art that's full meaning and astounding texture in this inspiring book by award - winning textile art tutor and artist Jan Dowson. Whether it's a landscape a garden an animal or a powerful memory of a place or object Jan shows you how she develops them all into beautifully stitched representations that exude awe - inspiring detail colour and expression. Discover Jan's unique sketchbook process where she stores and collects natural items and explores different patterns textures media and markings to cultivate her final design. See her simple yet effective methods for transforming her fabric for stitching including dyeing embellishing and stamping. Then watch her transform an unassuming square of fabric into a contemporary piece of art brimming with colour texture and extraordinary stitched markings - all made through the combination of traditional sewing techniques and other media. Following a fascinating illustrated step - by step chapter on Jan's key techniques join her as she takes you through the stages of three types of work for which she is most renowned - the stitched landscape the memory cloth and the bird sculpture. Each project also includes a break down of the materials tools and techniques used so that can understand as well as see the development of her astounding mixed - media creations. Throughout the book a gallery of Jan's work complements her techniques and projects showing how to truly push the limits on your stitcheries. These are stunning pieces that will open your eyes and turn your own creative concepts into original personal work.
Title: The Textile Artist: Expressive Stitches A No - Rules Guide To Creating Original Textile Art
Author(s): Dowson Jan
Publisher: Search Press Ltd
Barcode: 9781782217503
Pages: 144 Pages, 128 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 2/9/2021
Series: The Textile Artist
Category: Embroidery Crafts