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Hot Textiles Inspiration and techniques with heat tools
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From the inside flap:
An inspirational and practical guide to the potential of heat tools for textile artists. Soldering irons, heat guns and household irons can be used in a myriad of ways — from adding texture and variety to textile work to creating impressive three-dimensional vessels.
Stunning effects can be produced with these tools. Easy-to-follow instructions and inspirational examples throughout allow you to be creative with a range of materials. Innovative and versatile products such as Bondaweb, Tyvek, Pelmet Vilene and Lutradur are all covered, alongside everyday materials such as plastic and cellophane, foil, organza and felt. These exciting products and materials can be burnt, melted and distorted to create wonderful textures and shapes, or used to incorporate thread, fabric, beads, sequins and even natural materials such as grasses and petals. They can be used as a base for further stitching and other embroidery work, painted, transfer-printed, or simply layered with other fabrics and materials to stunning effect. The book goes on to describe how to combine all these techniques to produce beautiful textile pieces using heat tools.
This important book for textile artists is illustrated throughout with the author's renowned work and inspiring pieces by other leading textile artists. From free-standing, highly textured vessels, to exquisitely formed beads and beautiful embellishment, this is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to take their work to another level. 
From the introduction:
Welcome to Hot Textiles. Whether this is your first foray into the exciting world of using heat to work textiles, or whether you already have some experience, there is always something new to learn.
Our comment:My early training at Brighton Polytechnic (now Brighton University), UK, was in three-dimensional design of wood., metal, ceramics and plastics — I Specialized in ceramics and silver. It was not until 1985, as part of my Creative Embroidery diploma at Brighton, that I started paying serious attention to using melted materials (initially plastic bags) in my embroidery work. Both these courses encouraged experimentation with materials before starting to design a piece of work. 'Learning through play' isn't just for toddlers; for an artist it is a very important part of developing your skills and exploring techniques. Since then I have developed various processes involving plastic bags, cellophane, Bondaweb (Wonder-Under) and Tyvek. Layering materials and techniques has become a favourite way of creating amazing surfaces to stitch. I came to teaching experimental textiles by a rather circuitous route in 1996. I originally taught traditional courses, but after a while I started to get bored. With my rather mixed training, I find it difficult to keep to traditional courses, and my instincts are to wander away from the narrow path and find out 'what happens if ...'? While I fully appreciate the importance of learning traditional techniques, 1 have always been driven to push things further. I wrote and developed a new 30-week course, and 'Experimental Textiles' was born. After a slow start it took off, and has become a very successful course. The techniques I have chosen for this book are the ones I have found the most fun and most useful in my teaching, but there are many more. Well presented and highly informative. An excellent book.
Hard cover, 128 pages.
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