A gorgeous and inspirational book, showing how to create pictures with thread. Increasing numbers of textile artists and designers now use thread to draw with, on a wide range of mixed-media - including paper, flat fabric, manipulated fabric, various resistant materials including ceramics - experimenting with stencils and stitching, combining stitch with monoprinting, using both hand and machine stitch, and using everyday materials such as baking paper and newspaper to create one-off pieces. Packed with wonderful examples of work by contemporary makers, this book shows how to design and develop your own work using needlework, paper, print, sketching, and stitching.
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Lots of useful tips to help you think outside the box, and suggestions on how to record your experiments ... There are nine projects in all, but what is striking about them is that they are relatively simple designs, but look much more complex. The beauty of these is that the basic techniques have been combined really effectively, and there are instructions given on the inspiration, the preparation and execution of the pieces ... If you are reasonably confident in basic techniques, but want to experiment in a new arena, this would be an interesting book. Workshop on the Web
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Sandeep Jandu graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London with a degree in Media and Communications, specialising in illustration, in 2009. Inspired by the catwalk, she has since turned her attention to fashion, writing articles for Matches Fashion, working for L'Oréal UK & Ireland and now working as part of the Marketing team at Sassoon. She has most recently exhibited her work at 'Showcase' on Brick Lane.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By K. Platt
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This book is all about creating images with thread and a wide range of mixed media. The work isn't like that of artists that come to mind when I think of creating pictures with thread - Alice Kettle and a host of similar artists that have followed. Or the work of Jan Beaney for instance. This work is more arty. If you want to experiment with a number of different materials, then this is a good book to try. This review first appeared on yarnsandfabrics website.
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This is a very understated little book which actually contains a mine of information. The look is contemporary, the work hightly individual and that of highly experienced and qualified textile designer/artist. It covers a number of techniques in a matter of fact way, using easily available materials such as baking parchment, collage pictures from magazines, oddments of fabric and multi media drawing and painting materials. This isn't really a book to lead you step by step to making a copy of anything here, it more about showing you how to use some multi media techniques as you might learn in art school, but very much for your own ends. A lot of the advise, about choosing a theme and colour choice, for instance appear to be lightly dealt with, within a few words, but those words provides better information that many books of much greater length. The approach never talks down to the reader as a lot of books of this nature do, but rather encourages real creativity and thoughfulness in a highly thoughtful and helpful way, so you can find your own contemporary style. A great little book, I would highly recommend it to all my students on the BA Textiles course.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Velvet
Format:Paperback
As a mixed media textile artist I find this book invaluable. The author has a Goldsmith College background and has exciting textile ideas.I really like the idea of the easy things to be found round the house ie coffee, other dyes etc and the monoprinting, which I hope to have a go at I liked her contemporary stitching techniques and use of metals such as safety pins. I liked her interest in handmade paper too.
I would like my art to be a legacy and I was wondering how on we can preserve textile art and the backgrounds that are dyed with coffee as there has to be some life expectancy in textile art. I am not sure what sort of things to go for. I would certainly like a bit of information on how to preserve our art.
I love this book, it is a bit like having a 'friend' in the house who likes textile art and can come up with some exciting ideas.
I would love to see a new book!!
I would like my art to be a legacy and I was wondering how on we can preserve textile art and the backgrounds that are dyed with coffee as there has to be some life expectancy in textile art. I am not sure what sort of things to go for. I would certainly like a bit of information on how to preserve our art.
I love this book, it is a bit like having a 'friend' in the house who likes textile art and can come up with some exciting ideas.
I would love to see a new book!!
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