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Dyeing. printing and painting on fabrics can create some irresistable results, but beacuse there are so many different products and techniques out there, it can be difficult to know which is right for you and for the effect you want to achieve. The Surface Designer's Handbook explores all of the dyes favoured by textile artists and studios and includes recipes, tips and tricks and step-by-step instructions on how to use the dyes to alter and change surfaces by discharging, screen printing, mono printing, devore etc. A very comprehensive guide; the spiral binding ensures that this is also a very user-friendly workbook --Oct/Nov 2007 Stitch Magazine
This is an informative introduction to dyeing, printing and creating resists on fabric. It is a thorough and orderly guide to all these processes. It begins with safety. The properties of fabrics are covered, together with methods for testing fabrics where the content is unknown. After a chapter on colour, all aspects of dyeing are discussed from procion dyes to discharging. Screen printing, stencilling and resist dyeing, such as batik and devore are explained clearly. Many coloured photogarphs illustrate the results. There are helpful charts and the ring binding means it can be left open at the appropriate page. An invaluable textbook. --Oct 2007 Patchwork & Quilting
This is an informative introduction to dyeing, printing and creating resists on fabric. It is a thorough and orderly guide to all these processes. It begins with safety. The properties of fabrics are covered, together with methods for testing fabrics where the content is unknown. After a chapter on colour, all aspects of dyeing are discussed from procion dyes to discharging. Screen printing, stencilling and resist dyeing, such as batik and devore are explained clearly. Many coloured photogarphs illustrate the results. There are helpful charts and the ring binding means it can be left open at the appropriate page. An invaluable textbook. --Oct 2007 Patchwork & Quilting
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Learn to create richly patterned fabrics with "The Surface Designer's Handbook", the most comprehensive book for learning how dyes work and using them with surface design techniques. Author Holly Brackmann draws on more than 30 years of experience with studio dyeing techniques, providing a wealth of information on dyeing and surface design not found in any book currently in print. "The Surface Designer's Handbook" will help crafters understand which dyes work best with which fibers, and how to apply this knowledge to create unique, original fabrics. Recipes for dyes and techniques covered in the book are accompanied by step-by-step instructions and process photographs, making them clear and easy to follow. Brackmann shares tips and tricks gleaned from her three decades of experience in studio dyeing and helps you identify your personal approach to dyeing - are you a creative free spirit, or do you prefer to follow precise rules? It brings together a wealth of dyeing and surface design techniques. The spiral binding makes it easy to use, laying flat while consulting a recipe during dyeing. The dye worksheet is easily reproducible and can be used to calculate dyes, chemicals, procedures, and costs for all dye projects.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
I bought this book thinking it would help me at the beginning of my surface design degree, however it does not tell techniques very well, it does give stock lists and tell you about the different dyes and chemicals, this book is not meant for beginners. Hopefully i will find a use for it at some point.
10 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Spiral-bound
This is a wonderfull book. Plenty of very clear instruction in the of dyes ( quantities, and fabric type). Very well laid out. This is going to be very valuable during my up and coming C&G Textile decoration caures.
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83 of 84 people found the following review helpful
A Reference that Really Works
19 Oct 2006
Format:Spiral-bound
I have learned so much from this book. Holly Brackmann explains not only the how-to aspect of surface design in incredible detail & easy-to-follow steps, but also the how-it-works aspect of the processes. She begins her book with an all-important chapter on safety and then goes on to explain dyes, fibers & fabrics, followed by a chapter on color. Then she gets into explaining not only dyes (e.g., fiber-reactive, acid, vat, and disperse), but also discharging, screen printing, monoprinting, stamping, stenciling, resists, devore, textile painting, & embellishments. I love the clear instructions of the processes and the amazing photos, but what I love the most is that she empowers the user to explore and become profient in the processes. That empowering of the student is the mark of a great teacher.
46 of 47 people found the following review helpful
Instruction and inspiration all in one volume
23 Sep 2006
Format:Spiral-bound
Holly Brackmann's beautifully produced new book, The Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, and Creating Resists on Fabric, is both a "how to" and a "why." Drawing on her many years' experience as a fiber artist and a college-level textile arts instructor, Brackmann covers the topics promised in the title of her book--and then some--in an encyclopedic manner. Chapters on the different topics begin with readable summaries of the historical and technological development of the process. Clear and detailed recipes and instructions for each process enable beginners to proceed step by step to successful and rewarding results as well as remind the more experienced of pitfalls to watch out for and enhancements to experiment with. The attractive arrangement of a hidden spiral binding is a practical element that enables the user to keep the book open to a particular page while working. Safety considerations, helpful hints, and other useful lists are set apart in different type and colored boxes for easy reference. The "why" comes in with the hundreds of excellently reproduced photographs of the work of Brackmann and many other fiber artists. These illustrations make the book an inspiration to artists as well as a delight for all others interested in the scope and range of textile arts today.
44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful book!
18 July 2007
Format:Spiral-bound
Holly Brackmann's new book The Surface Designer's Handbook is long over-due and I have ordered it as the textbook for all my fibers classes. As soon as it arrived my students all wanted their own personal copy so several of them purchased it outright just on sight alone. The spiral binding is excellent and the extent of the techniques covered is wonderful. I teach both beginners and advanced fibers students and this book has everything we need as a textbook.
I use it myself for my own work and find it very helpful, well organized and thorough. The information about making color cards with diluted MX dye on watercolor paper is worth the selling price all by itself. It is a technique I knew nothing about and I am thrilled to learn about it. It has saved hours and hours of dye testing time.
In my classes we had been using Kate Wells' book Fabric Dyeing and Printing and prior to that, Proctor and Lew's Surface Design for Fabric. Now, 16 years later, Holly's excellent book has arrived and is the handbook of the hour. It is up to date, comprehensive and thorough, and should be in everyone's library that works with dyes, textile paints and cloth. It improves on and surpasses every handbook published to date and encompasses a massive amount of information.
I look forward to using it in my classes for many years to come and I salute Holly for the enormous amount of work that went into creating this book. She has provided a gift for the entire surface design community both here and abroad.
Morgan Clifford, Professor
Art Dept / Textiles
University of WI-River Falls
I use it myself for my own work and find it very helpful, well organized and thorough. The information about making color cards with diluted MX dye on watercolor paper is worth the selling price all by itself. It is a technique I knew nothing about and I am thrilled to learn about it. It has saved hours and hours of dye testing time.
In my classes we had been using Kate Wells' book Fabric Dyeing and Printing and prior to that, Proctor and Lew's Surface Design for Fabric. Now, 16 years later, Holly's excellent book has arrived and is the handbook of the hour. It is up to date, comprehensive and thorough, and should be in everyone's library that works with dyes, textile paints and cloth. It improves on and surpasses every handbook published to date and encompasses a massive amount of information.
I look forward to using it in my classes for many years to come and I salute Holly for the enormous amount of work that went into creating this book. She has provided a gift for the entire surface design community both here and abroad.
Morgan Clifford, Professor
Art Dept / Textiles
University of WI-River Falls
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