The Textile Artist: Layer, Paint and Stitch

Create Textile Art Using Freehand Machine Embroidery and Hand Stitching

Wendy Dolan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2015
Search Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78221-074-0 (ISBN)

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Explore Wendy Dolan’s artistic process, from layering fabric textures to painting and embellishing with stitching. This beautiful book contains six step-by-step projects, on the themes of Architecture, Landscapes and Flowers. Each chapter features an inspiring gallery of Wendy’s work, and the final chapter offers inspiration for creating stunning three-dimensional items.

This beautiful book guides the reader through Wendy’s inventive style of work: from piecing and patching fabrics and creating textures to painting and embellishing with hand and machine stitching. This book contains a wealth of inspiration for any textile artist, showing them how to create gorgeous, textured pieces of art and then, in the final chapter, offering inspiration for how to transform these pieces into three-dimensional items such as cushion covers, notebooks, 3-d vessels, and even a wedding dress, which Wendy made for her daughter. The book contains six beautiful step-by-step projects, broken down into three chapters: Architecture, Landscapes and Flowers, and at the end of each section there is an inspiring gallery of Wendy’s work.

Wendy Dolan is a Fellow of The Society of Designer Craftsmen, The Sussex Guild of Designers and Makers, The Embroiderers’ Guild and is on the Crafts Council Makers’ Index. Specialising in Freehand Machine Embroidery and related creative stitching techniques, she offers a range of courses, lectures and workshops. Living close to the South Downs, the landscape provides a constant source of inspiration for my stitched textile designs. My current theme, ‘A Sense of Place’ records memorable journeys and locations, using fabric, stitch and texture. Architectural structures, textures, and patterns also provide a wealth of ideas which I enjoy exploring.

Introduction 6

Materials 8

Inspiration 10

Colour 18

Freehand machine stitching 20

Hand stitching 30

Playing with colour 34

Playing with texture 44

Design 48

Flowers

Summer Meadow 54

Iris 66

Flowers gallery 80

Architecture

Venetian Window 82

Montage inspired by Gaudi 94

Architecture gallery 104

Landscapes

Rugged Moors 108

Poppy Field 120

Landscapes gallery 130

Three-dimensional inspiration 134

Wedding dress 136

Three-dimensional vessels 138

Cushion covers 142

Notebook covers 143

Index 144

Reihe/Serie	The Textile Artist
Verlagsort	Tunbridge Wells
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Gewicht	688 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Handarbeit / Textiles
ISBN-10	1-78221-074-1 / 1782210741
ISBN-13	978-1-78221-074-0 / 9781782210740
Zustand	Neuware