Inspired Velvet with Angie Hughes, by Colouricious, price 17.99 available from www.beckmanndirect.com
Angie has a definite style and works with velvet, paints and stabilisers to produce unique works of art. She shows so many techniques in her layered textiles. Use paints, foils, sweet paper foils and organza to create depth in your work. Every process is [...]
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Velvet DVD with Angie Hughes
Recycled Reborn DVD with Colouricious
Inspired Recycled Reborn DVD by Colouricious, price 17.99 available from www.beackmanndirect.com
The team at Coloricious, together with Marilyn Pipe must have had great fun making this DVD. It includes many ways to make old, worn out fabrics into something new. It demonstrates various techniques to dye, burn, stitch and so on. I love Marilyn’s rag bags [...]
Fabric Art Collage by Rebekah Meier
Fabric Art Collage by Rebekah Meier, softback published by CT Publishing. ISBN 978-1-57120-580-3, price 26.95 USD available from www.ctpub.com. Also available as an ebook.
What first strikes me about this book is the ideas for using small scraps and fabric leftover from larger projects. I’m also struck by the artist’s use of colour. I love working [...]
In The Loop by Jessica Hemmings
In the Loop Knitting Now by Jessica Hemmings, softback published by Black Dog Publishing. ISBN 978-1-906155-96-4, price 24.99 available from www.blackdogonline.com
This is not a knitting pattern book. Instead it tracks the position of knitting as an art form today. It offers perspectives on knitting, mainly as a textile art across the world. Theme-wise, it reminds me [...]
Digital Imagery on Fabric by Ruth Brown
Digital Imagery on Fabric by Ruth Brown, softback, spiral bound, published by S C Publications. ISBN 978-0-9554647-1-3, price 24.50 available from www.stonecreeksilk.co.uk
What first struck me about this book is Ruth Brown’s attention to detail in all things. This book is on good quality paper with a spiral binding, so it lays flat – essential for [...]