Textile Artist: Layer, Paint and Stitch, The: Create textile art using freehand machine embroidery and hand stitching

by Wendy Dolan

Overview

This beautiful book guides the reader through Wendys 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 Wendys work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782210740
Publisher:	Search Press
Publication date:	09/21/2015
Series:	The Textile Artist
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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 (UK), 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.

Table of Contents

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