Let’s Play With Walnut Ink for the creative artist
If you have ever wanted to play with walnut ink and didn’t know where to start, here’s a booklet that will help you immensely. Explore new and old techniques to get your creativity flowing. This booklet tells you about walnut ink and what to do with it. [...]
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Dale Rollerson books
Textile Adventures by Isobel Hall
Textile Adventures mixed media and stitch by Isobel Hall, softback published by Isobel Hall Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9569029-0-0, price 17.00.
Isobel promises an adventure and delivers one. Experiment to your heart’s content and produce your own unique projects using the techniques. The instructions for the techniques are easy to follow. New ideas for using relatively inexpensive mediums [...]
Learn to Spin by Anne Field
Learn to Spin by Anne Field, published by Search Press. ISBN 978-1-8448-766-0, price 19.99available from www.searchpress.com
This book is great for beginners with its step by step instructions and photographs. It contains much information from animal fibres to spinning wheels and I was surprised how thorough the book is. It covers fibres other than wool. It [...]
Handmade Silk Paper by Kath Russon
Handmade Silk Paper by Kath Russon, softback published by Search Press. ISBN978-0-85532-893-1, price 9.95 available from www.searchpress.com
This book provides the basic techniques of dyeing silk fibres and making silk paper. The book goes on to show how would include petals or other inclusions, use other fibres, mould the paper around a bowl and more decorative [...]
Fabulous Fabric Paint by M Day-Wilde et al
Fabulous Fabric Paint by Monique Day-Wilde & Angie Franke, softback published by Metz Press in South Africa. ISBN 1-919992-21-9, price 12.99 in the UK available from www.searchpress.com
This is a fabulous book about dyeing that I really enjoyed. It has all you need to know about materials plus lots of different techniques for dyeing including all [...]