Transform your ideas on creative fabric embellishment for textile art
that's full meaning and astounding texture, in this inspiring book by
award-winning textile art tutor and artist Jan Dowson.
Whether it's a landscape, a garden, an animal or a powerful memory of a
place or object, Jan shows you how she develops them all into
beautifully stitched representations that exude awe-inspiring detail,
colour and expression.
Discover Jan's unique sketchbook process, where she stores and collects
natural items, and explores different patterns, textures, media and
markings to cultivate her final design. See her simple yet effective
methods for transforming her fabric for stitching, including dyeing,
embellishing and stamping. Then, watch her transform an unassuming
square of fabric into a contemporary piece of art brimming with colour,
texture and extraordinary stitched markings - all made through the
combination of traditional sewing techniques and other media.
Following a fascinating, illustrated step-by step chapter on Jan's key
techniques, join her as she takes you through the stages of three types
of work for which she is most renowned - the stitched landscape, the
memory cloth and the bird sculpture. Each project also includes a break
down of the materials, tools and techniques used, so that can understand
as well as see the development of her astounding, mixed-media creations.
Throughout the book, a gallery of Jan's work complements her techniques
and projects, showing how to truly push the limits on your stitcheries.
These are stunning pieces that will open your eyes and turn your own
creative concepts into original, personal work.
