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'This is a great title for those who enjoy experimenting with luxurious fabrics.' Sewing World (October 2007)
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Textiles Handbooks is a series of practical paperbacks covering various topics in the textiles field. They are aimed at the serious student as well as professional textile artists who want to extend their skills. This title looks at different ways of decorating silks and velvets, introducing methods such as ikat, direct painting, block printing and stencilling, embroidery, needlefelting, foiling, dip dyeing and transfer dyeing. The book includes a brief history of various materials and then covers the practical requirements and techniques for surface decoration, including examples from around the world, as well as a series of projects for items you can make using decorated textiles.
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Bird's-eye intro to wide range of techniques
26 May 2011
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Nicely written, with some up-to-date instructions not found elsewhere. For example, I suspected one could fix steam-set dyes in the microwave, but this book tells you how! I now do lots of steam-set dye work in large heavy-duty zip-seal bags, in the nuke, in less than 20 minutes with no mess and without heating the house (which has no A/C).
This is a very nice book for readers with prior knowledge of at least some of the material; I keep it handy and refer to it fairly often. Not necessarily the best "My First" book though. Some of the explanations are a little brief and cursory for initial instruction, and there are a couple of misprints that a beginner couldn't catch-and-ignore. For example, there's an acid-dye instruction that calls for chemical-water, and chemical-water is used with fiber-reactive dyes, not acid dyes (OK - "at least, not the acid dyes I've been buying" - just in case someone out there knows of an exception they want to flame me about :) )
This is a very nice book for readers with prior knowledge of at least some of the material; I keep it handy and refer to it fairly often. Not necessarily the best "My First" book though. Some of the explanations are a little brief and cursory for initial instruction, and there are a couple of misprints that a beginner couldn't catch-and-ignore. For example, there's an acid-dye instruction that calls for chemical-water, and chemical-water is used with fiber-reactive dyes, not acid dyes (OK - "at least, not the acid dyes I've been buying" - just in case someone out there knows of an exception they want to flame me about :) )
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