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Shibori is one of the world's richest textile traditions in the world. Commonly associated with Japan, it is also used in Africa, India and South America. Shibori is the Japanese term (from the word 'to squeeze or wring'), for the dye-resist technique of binding, clamping or gathering the cloth so that the dye cannot reach certain parts. This results in that most powerful of combinations - a carefully structured design with the organic freedom of the unpredictable. In recent years a resurgence of the art has brought out its full potential and author Janice Gunner's book is aimed at quilters, embroiderers and textile artists who not only want to master the techniques of shibori but also find ways of using the fabric once created for a range of textile techniques including quilting and embroidery. The book briefly covers the historical and cultural background before explaining clearly, with step-by-step instructions, how to make a wide range of stunning fabric. It covers: tied resist, stitched resist, wrapped resist, clamp resist, folded and pleated resist, heat set techniques, discharge dyeing techniques, immersion and other dyeing techniques. Illustrated throughout with new and old shibori examples, and many finished quilted and embroidered pieces that have incorporated shibori techniques, to show the full potential of the art.
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Janice Gunner is a leading textile artist - particularly known for her quilting and her shibori - in both the UK and the US. She won the Jewel Pearce Patterson Scholarship for International Quilt Teachers and attended Quilt Market & Festival in Houston, Texas in 1999 and 2000. She is the Vice President of the The Quilters Guild of the British Isles and part of the Contemporary Quilt group of the QGBI. She has been teaching patchwork and quilting and shibori for 30 years.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This book is nicely produced with lots of colour photographs of resist-dyed textiles that show what can be achieved with these techniques. The text is, on first reading, full and explanatory and the writing style is friendly without any condescension. After a resume of resist-dyeing around the world, there are different chapters on various techniques: stitching, clamping, binding, folding and so forth. The diagrams that accompany these are not particularly well-drawn and let the book down; they look a bit scribbled. Perhaps this is to add intimacy but I didn't think it added clarity.
There is a brief section on dyeing techniques: immersion dyeing, space-dyeing (ie, random) and indigo work. There is not any information on which different dyes to use, apart from saying the author uses Procion MX and indigo. There is not any advice on colour combinations, which would be very useful to the beginners, nor is there any mention of the use of discharge chemicals.
My main disappointment with the book is the very heavy bias towards indigo; almost every photograph of finished work is blue which gives not even a hint as to how these techniques work in colour combinations. My second dismay is so many of the finished textiles are shown pieced and quilted, which make it very difficult to see which technique is being discussed. Which part of this blue patchwork hanging is the clamp-resist fabric we have just been reading about? How did that plain blue square find its way into the diagonal blue pattern? And what about that blue printed border - how did we do that? We cut out and stitched in, of course, but far from delighting my eye these quilted pieces confused the issue.
The basic resist techniques are explained clearly and very simply; we are told to dye the fabric according to our chosen method. Each technique ends with a short list of suggested variants and the leitmotif is that the possibilities are endless. So they are but it is that very fact that makes life so confusing for the novice dyer.
The samples shown are lovely but the instructions for them (where there are any) are vague. There is none of the full and precise information given in Karren K Brito's Shibori book (q.v.) which is mentioned in Ms Gunner's bibliography. If you can 'read' the photographs, there is much to see in this book but it is far from my favourite.
There is a brief section on dyeing techniques: immersion dyeing, space-dyeing (ie, random) and indigo work. There is not any information on which different dyes to use, apart from saying the author uses Procion MX and indigo. There is not any advice on colour combinations, which would be very useful to the beginners, nor is there any mention of the use of discharge chemicals.
My main disappointment with the book is the very heavy bias towards indigo; almost every photograph of finished work is blue which gives not even a hint as to how these techniques work in colour combinations. My second dismay is so many of the finished textiles are shown pieced and quilted, which make it very difficult to see which technique is being discussed. Which part of this blue patchwork hanging is the clamp-resist fabric we have just been reading about? How did that plain blue square find its way into the diagonal blue pattern? And what about that blue printed border - how did we do that? We cut out and stitched in, of course, but far from delighting my eye these quilted pieces confused the issue.
The basic resist techniques are explained clearly and very simply; we are told to dye the fabric according to our chosen method. Each technique ends with a short list of suggested variants and the leitmotif is that the possibilities are endless. So they are but it is that very fact that makes life so confusing for the novice dyer.
The samples shown are lovely but the instructions for them (where there are any) are vague. There is none of the full and precise information given in Karren K Brito's Shibori book (q.v.) which is mentioned in Ms Gunner's bibliography. If you can 'read' the photographs, there is much to see in this book but it is far from my favourite.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Very good explanations on this subject and definitively a good help to start on this kind of painting or to develop your knowledge.
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