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From the back cover:
"Fabric books simply beg to be touched and experienced through the hands as well as the eyes."
-Pam Sussman

If you love books and love fabric, then this is the book for you. In Fabric Art Journals, renowned book artist and instructor Pam Sussman guides you through the process of creating tactile, beautiful books and journals from cloth. The book explores, in detail, all types of embellishments for fabric books, including painting, dyeing, and writing techniques; decorative stitching; machine and hand embroidery; image transfers; and quilting; and then takes you step-by-step through the process of creating eight unique book structures. A final gallery features an amazing collection of inspirational fabric books created by the leading artists working in this area. Fabric Art Journals is the first comprehensive book on making books and journals from fabric

Fabric Art Journals:
• Includes illustrated step-by-step construction techniques, complete patterns and templates, and fabulous embellishment ideas
• Provides guidance detailed enough for inexperienced sewers, and brims with inspiration and ideas for those with some background in fabric arts.

Soft Cover, 144 pages.

Price: $39.95 ($36.32)

Contents:
Introduction

CHAPTER ONE
Fabric Journal Basics
Fabric Journal Tools
Fabric Journals versus Paper Journals
Hand Sewing versus Machine Sewing
Accurate Measuring and Cutting
Pressing
Choosing Fabrics and Threads
Inner Support
Basic Sewing Stitches
Basic Edge Finishes

CHAPTER TWO
Embellishments for Fabric Journals
Tea-Dyeing Fabrics
Painting Fabrics
Adding Words to Cloth Pages
Image Transfers
Appliqué
Art Quilting
Easy Embroidery
Eyelets and Other Hardware
Buttons
Fancy Edges
Fancy Closures
Beads
Trims

CHAPTER THREE
Fabric Book Projects
SIMPLE BINDINGS
Muslin Journal
Concertina Journal
Button-Bound Book
INTERMEDIATE BINDINGS
Tape-Bound Journal
French-Stitch Journal
House Box Journal
ADVANCED BINDINGS
Coptic-Bound Journal
Dream Journal

CHAPTER FOUR
Gallery

Templates
Resources
Contributing Artists
About the Author
Acknowledgments