The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch

by Susan Brandeis

Overview

Enables all embroidery fans to "say" almost anything and convey emotions with thread!

Communicate your ideas using line, shape, color, and texture with this reference and how-to exploration in one. Whether your particular interest is pictorial, portraiture, abstract compositions, or actual text, you can “say” almost anything with thread.

• More than 350 color photographs translate the techniques of drawing, painting, and good composition into the world of stitch, and “Try This!” projects inspire your own individual approaches.
• Including the role of machine stitching, this design resource, learning tool, and inspirational reference helps practitioners at all levels, whether beginning student, dedicated amateur, or professional.

Take a lyrical—but logical—journey of skill building, and begin to stitch intentionally and express your creative vision.

“Many books deal with stitch types in a bland similar manner. Brandeis here incorporates suggestions within this book, such as how to use text in a thread way . . . merging handwriting with expression . . . in stitch!” —Ailish Henderson, Mr. XStitch Magazine

“Brandeis takes us on a journey into the expressive nature of stitch . . . reveals how to manipulate stitches much like an artist might a pencil or paintbrush.” —Embroidery Magazine

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764357435
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	07/28/2019
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	133,601
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Susan Brandeis is Distinguished Professor Emerita at North Carolina State University’s College of Design and is a member of the university’s Academy of Outstanding Teachers. She holds graduate degrees in both art education and textile art and is a studio artist who has been making, exhibiting, teaching, and writing about textile art and design for over 40 years. She founded the Southeast Fibers Educators Association. Her work has been pictured in leading publications in the field and exhibited throughout the United States; in Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Finland, South Korea, Colombia, the Netherlands, and the Philippines; and at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC, and the International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland. She is represented in numerous private and public collections, including the Smithsonian Institution’s Renwick Gallery. She is also the author of the surface design books The Cumulative Cloth: Wet Techniques and The Cumulative Cloth: Dry Techniques.

Editorial Reviews

Many books deal with stitch types in a bland similar manner. Brandeis here incorporates suggestions within this book, such as how to use text in a thread way . . . merging handwriting with expression . . . in stitch!

Ailish Henderson

Brandeis takes us on a journey into the expressive nature of stitch . . . reveals how to manipulate stitches much like an artist might a pencil or paintbrush.

Embroidery Magazine

Many books deal with stitch types in a bland similar manner. Brandeis here incorporates suggestions within this book, such as how to use text in a thread way….merging handwriting with expression…in stitch!

-Ailish Henderson, Mr. XStitch Magazine

“Brandeis takes us on a journey into the expressive nature of stitch . . . reveals how to manipulate stitches much like an artist might a pencil or paintbrush.” —Embroidery Magazine

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