Textile Artist: Expressive Stitches: A no-rules guide to creating original textile art (The Textile Artist)

Price: [price_with_discount]
(as of [price_update_date] – Details)

[ad_1]
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.

From the Publisher

Express yourself with Expressive Stitches

Create your stories and memories in cloth and thread using this stunning, highly visual, practical guide to meaningful textile art.

Gather together your materials and tools

Look at home first for inspiring old fabrics you could use in your work; you could even recycle clothes, or hot wash and shrink an old woollen garment.

A sketchbook or visual diary is the best place to store source material; it is also, of course, the perfect place to record and develop new ideas.

Discover…

Dyeing your fabrics

Adding printing, stamping and stencilling

Appliqué

Free-motion embroidery

Hand stitching

Historical techniques

Experimenting with found items

Create stunning stitched landscapes!

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Search Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 9, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1782217509
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1782217503
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.69 x 0.43 x 11.19 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ The Textile Artist

[ad_2]