'Complex Cloth - a comprehensive guide'
Details
Discover textile artist Jane Dunnewold's secrets to creating visual complexity and depth in fabric. In this comprehensive guide, Jane explains her system of layering simple processes to produce intriguing surface designs. Full-color photographs of fabric, quilts, and clothing provide a sampling of her beautiful results.Experiment with fiber-reactive dyes, household bleach, fabric paints, water-based resists, photocopy transfers, foils, and glitters to create your own sumptuous fabrics. Add even.more texture with silk screening, stenciling, stamping, embroidery, and beading. Complex Cloth is a one-of-a-kind resource for a variety of surface-design techniques.
"The world is a miraculous and fascinating place, and ideas for surface designs are everywhere," Jane writes. "You may make wondrous cloth based on what you learn in this book, but if your eyes are newly opened to the world around you, we will have both succeeded beyond these limited pages."
Soft cover, 160 pages
Price: $69.95 ($63.59)
Contents
Introduction
How to use this book
Organising your workspace
Where to find supplies
Fabrics
Colour
Applications:
Stamping BasicsProcesses:
Stencilling Basics
Silk-Screening Basics
DyesAccents:
Bleach Discharge
Fabric Paints
Water Based Resists
Foils and Glitters
Photocopy Transfers
EmbroideryStudies and Explorations
Beading
Bibliography, Appendixes etc.