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Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidered Flowers - Allison Hall
Gosh it's amazing to me that the flowers on the cover are not real but machine embroidered! The author shows you how to make beautiful floral and garden pictures starting with a hand painted silk background and only two different stitches. Construction of each flower is shown in step by step photos. Inspirational color photos of embroidered gardens complete the package.
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Beginner's Guide to Machine Landscapes - Allison Hall
Continuing the series, this book goes into detail about creating machine embroidered landscapes from water garden and floral borders to colorful meadows and woodlands. It's still amazing to me that these were done a regular sewing machine. Step by step photographs combined with beautiful color photos of the projects complete the learning process.
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Machine Embroidered Woodlands - Allison Hall
The third book in the series contains everything you need to know to create beautiful woodland embroideries, including the materials required, how to compose a picture from photographs, choosing threads, painting backgrounds and basic stitch techniques. Again only two stitches are used to create the pictures. This book emphasizes how to create perspective, depth, light and shade in recreating scenic beauty of the woodlands.
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Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery by Maggie Grey - Out of Print Book - one copy remaining
This book is too cool!. Filled with page after page of creative ideas, the hardest time you will have is deciding which technique to do first. Raising the Surface is a book for everyone who is interested in texture in embroidery. Beautifully illustrated with clear instructions and color photographs, it covers:
- Backgrounds, often using experimental or unusual materials
- Raising the surface a little to produce highly textured, low-relief embroideries
- The next step - raising the surface even more
- Using applied motifs for high-relief textiles
- Frames, masks and high-relief panels
- Three-dimensional constructions, bowls, vessels & towers
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Stitch Dissolve Distort With Machine Embroidery - Valerie Campbell
Featuring new and exciting techniques on how to dissolve, melt, and distort fabric both before and after stitching, this guide explores the evolving and innovative materials that are introduced into the textile market and instructs fiber artists how to use them creatively and effectively. Whether dissolving, melting, punching, slashing, or distorting textiles, crafters can achieve fascinating effects using the handbook's easy-to-follow steps, design tips, and diagrams. The book's organization around three themes -- stitch, dissolve, and distort -- allows experienced embroiderers to easily incorporate fresh ideas into their favorite stitching styles.
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Fine Machine Sewing - Carol Laflin Ahles
Completely revised and expanded, the second edition of Fine Machine Sewing is a comprehensive guide to producing details that look hand sewn with the ease of the machine. Whether working with a purchased garment or one you have made yourself, you can create beautiful, delicate effects with the help of clear, step-by-step instructions. This reference can be used by sewers of all skill levels for mastering classic finishing and embellishing techniques and for learning how to get the most out of any machine.
Techniques include:
- Instructions for hemstitching, fagoting, pintucking, and appliqueing and for making perfect scalloped hems and decorative edges
- Specific machine settings for decorative techniques
- A new chapter on replicating vintage lace and entredeux techniques
- Tips for sewing on lightweight fabrics
- Troubleshooting advice for common problems
- Beautiful photos of finished garments and closeup views of techniques in progress
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Excellent publication which fills a much needed market. Every project
included is well thought out, delightfully executed and down right beautiful.
Explores the world of machine embroidery thoroughly from art to wear
to wall-hangings.
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Fabric Etching - Iris Lee
Creating surface texture & design using Fiber Etch. This definitive
book contains an amazing array of traditional sewing and crafts techniques
which can be successfully and easily accomplished with Fiber Etch which is
an unique fabric remover gel for creating etched designs and cut-away effects
in fabric for clothing & home decor. Instructions for the following
are included:
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Creating devore' or burn-out velvet (must use silk velvet with rayon pile
to work)
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Etching fabric blends for sheer and opaque areas.
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No-sew methods
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Cutwork without scissors
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Reverse applique with layers of fabric
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etched designs using the embroidery machine
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Easy applique of complex and tiny shapes
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Batik - Modern Concepts & Techniques, Noel
Dyrenforth
Batik has moved a long way since the technique reached the West. This
book take the craft beyond the basics to include new materials as well as
new techniques, pushing the boundaries of the art form. Lavishly
illustrated in color and clearly written and laid out, it features the work
of international batik artists and historical pieces, which are used to
illustrate the techniques and materials covered in the book.
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Shibori - Designs & Techniques - Mandy Southan
This is an excellent book to start on your journey for learning Shibori.
If you don't know Shibori is an ancient Japanese resist dyeing technique
that contemporary American dyers have enlivened with tie-dye-inspired colors,
resulting in an exuberant interplay between color and texture. In this
book the artist demonstrates her rendition of American shibori, sharing her
authoritative knowledge of silk, dyes, dyeing, and discharge and revealing
how to formulate colors, create a variety of resists, and set texture.
Mandy Southan had created an excellent manual on the art of American shibori. Her work shimmers with iridescent color and eye-catching
pleating, which she creates by combining pole-wrapping, with folding techniques and clamping along with other types of
resists with discharge and overdyeing. Instructions are given for creating
the wonderfully pleated texture on the front cover of the book.
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Elfriede Moller - Shibori
The art of fabric tying, folding, pleating and dyeing. This
is a great beginner's book on the recent Shibori painting movement.
(Personally I have been playing with the ideas and projects of silk
painting for about three years now and have been having a great time on my
off times.) Known as a form of tie-dye, this style goes beyond the
explosive designs of the 60's and 70's. Shibori is tie-dye all grown
up. Fabrics range from silk velvet (for scarves and throws), to wool
challis and the many weights of silks. Four hand methods and one pleater
method make up some of the most beautiful designs. Each method is
shown with step by step pictures with numerous examples to delight your senses.
Do your design in browns and golds and you might end up with
a tiger or lion print, roar! Here is a sample of Shibori from the book
pleated with a smocking pleater.
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Shibori - Lynne Caldwell - $19.95 Subtitled: A Beginner's Guide to Creating Color and Texture on Fabric
If you have looked at the craft of Shibori and wondered how to do it then this is the perfect book for you. Each method of tying fabric is shown with a project. The author is an expert in her field gaining her MFA in fiber arts from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has taught workshops at The Textile Museum and the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. as well as the School of Design at North Carolina State University.
From the back cover:
"Create patterns and texture in fabric using shibori. Learn a variety of traditional methods of folding and clamping, stitching and gathering, arashi (pole-wrapping), and binding to enhance cloth with interesting motifs and shapes. From silk dupioni window panels to cotton T-shirts, these diverse projects incorporate traditional processes with a contemporary design sense."
hb - 127 pages of color photographs. A Lark Books publication Price $19.95
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Shibori for Textile Artists - Janice Gunner $27.95Here's another great book for your reference library. What is unique about this book is that it combines traditional Japanese, African and Indian shibori methods with contemporary techniques to create textiles that are bursting with rich, intricate patterns and bold color. Not your usual tie-dye look for sure.On the back cover: "A range of techniques are covered, from tied and stitched designs to ideas for wrapping, folding, clamping, pleating and binding. Simple and safe instructions for a range of dyeing techniques are also included. Practical information is accompanied by clear instructions and diagrams, aimed at quilters, embroiderers, and textile artists of all abilities. Stunning quilts and embroideries throughout demonstrate the full potential of the techniques, along side practical advice on turning your shibori textiles into beautiful quilts, hangings and textile art. Price $27.95
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Printing by Hand - Lena Corwin
A Modern Guide to Printing with Handmade Stamps, Stencils, and Silk ScreensWow. I've been waiting for this book ever since I saw it was coming. If you're like me you need someone to guide you into the processes of learning new tricks. This book makes it easy to learn the three primary methods for creating printing tools for stenciling, stamping and screen printing, not an easy task for sure. The next phase it how to print by hand. Step- by-step instructions and detailed how-to photographs make each imaginative project easy to execute with either Corwin's original artwork or your own design. Projects range from stationary and clothing to furniture and wall embellishments. Price $27.50
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Creative Surface Design - Sandy Scrivano
A wonderful book for the creative artist wanting to try something different on their fabric. This book is from the publishers of Threads magazine. It is a comprehensive guide to embellishing surfaces with designs that go beyond the traditional. You will learn how to add your own personal touches to a variety of surfaces including many types of fabric, leather, suede, and wood. Four techniques - painting, stamping, stenciling, and embossing - are covered in complete detail, with step-by-step instructions and photographs. Lots of inspirational photographs included.Price $27.50
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The Surface Designer's Handbook - Holly BrackmannSubtitled: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric.Holly Brackmann is Professor of Textiles and Art History at Mendocino College in Ukaih, California and is well known for her dedication to the arts of surface design (I have been trying to take her classes for years but not enough time in my world yet). If, like me, you can't take her class this book is a wonderful substitute filled with all the techniques a budding surface designer can ever hope for in rich detail and clear & concise instructions. On the back cover: "This comprehensive guide brings together dyeing techniques and surface design in one book. Beginning with studio practices and safety rules, this information-packed handbook:
- Covers all aspects of dyes favored by textile studios - fiber reactive, acid, vat, and disperse
- Explains step-by-step how to use these dyes to alter and change surfaces by discharging, screen printing, monoprinting, stamping, stenciling, resist dyeing, devore, and painting
- Teaches embellishing your fabric with foiling, embroidery, beadwork, or collage
- Offers hand-on resources, including dye worksheets, recipes, and instructions for all techniques plus tips and tricks
- Inspires with color photographs showcasing work from today's top fiber artists.
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