Showing posts with label Fibre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fibre. Show all posts

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Book Review

I just received Alysn Midgelow-Marsden's book, Stitch, Fibre, Metal & Mixed Media. The photography throughout the book is excellent, with lots of close ups. There's lots of inspiration for the textile artist.

Alysn shares her ideas for working with embroidered textiles by combining fibres and stitching with various forms of metal and other mixed media. Her work includes dying, painting, piecing and burning fabrics as well as adding embellishment by hand and sewing machine.

The section about materials is quite informative and to the point.

The project section comprises most of the book. The directions for each project are excellent and can be translated into other projects and not just the ones shown.

If you are interested in exploring different methods for surface embellishment, consider this book.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

New Books


I ordered two new books from Amazon yesterday, Hot Textiles: Inspiration and Techniques with Heat Tools by Kim Thittichai and Stitch, Fibre, Metal and Mixed Media by Alsyn Midgelow-Marsden. Her blog is called Burnt Offerings.
I am familiar with the first book, Hot Textiles but not the other one. I did have a look on the inside of the Stitch, Fibre, Metal and Mixed Media and decided I'd like to add it to my library.