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Radiant Landscapes
by Gloria Loughman
128 pages, paperback, color,
from C&T Publishing
Transform Tiled Colors & Textures into Dramatic Quilts! Get stunning results with Gloria's mosaic tile process for capturing the essence of natural light with your fabric selection. Add dramatic depth to your landscape applique quilt by reviewing basic design principles and explorins a variety of stitching, dyeing, and painting techniques. Includes 4 new projects from the best selling author of Luminous Landscapes and Quilted Symphony.
$29.95 [Add to Cart] |
Print with Collage & Sitich
by Val Holmes
128 pages, paperback, color,
from Interweave
Take your surface design to another dimension. The enthralling popularity of collagraphy is taking textile and mixed media artists to new heights! Is your ultimate reference guide to this simple yet fundamental mixed media technique for producing highly sophisticated and complex looking surface effects.
$26.95 [Add to Cart] |
The Artist Unique -
Inspirations and Techniques to Discover Your Creative Signature
by Carmen Torbus
paperback, 128 pages, color,
from North Light Books
Make your mark your way! Let the author inspire you to new creative heights in this collection of hands-on techniques and heartfelt stories from talented artists who have worked through their own artistic struggles to emerge triumphant, with looks uniquely their own. Includes 17 of the artists' favorite techniques shown step-by-step.
$24.99 [Add to Cart] |
Creative Quilts from your Crayon Box
by Terrie Linn Kygar
80 pages, paperback, color,
from Martingale
it's time for new fun with an old favorite crayons! using the new melt-n-blend technique, anyone can create beautiful applique designs with a dimensions, hand painted look that brings quilts to life. learn to tint and shade luscious fruits, gorgeous blossoms, and more using crayons, colored pencils, and markers.
$24.99 [Add to Cart] |
Free-From Embroidery
by Judith Baker Montano
128 pages, paperback, color,
from C&T Publishing
Create lifelike trees, flowers, ocean corals, and more with 60 stitches and 67 stitch combinations, Learn artistic embroidery techniques for building layers, creating dimension and perspective, and blending shapes. Translate your favorite snapshot of amy landscape or seascape into fiber art.
$26.95 [Add to Cart] |
Stupendous Stitching
by Carol Ann Waugh
64 pages, paperback, color,
from Xcellent Press
With this book you create stunning textured fabric art to display on your walls, use in home decor and make into fabulous accessories, Combining hand embroidery, decorative machine stitching and couching, this technique is fun and addicting, You can't make just one. Create one of a kind art in a few easy steps. Hone your use of color and line. go from plain fabric to ready to hang artwork that expresses your unique vision.
$29.95 [Add to Cart] |
Making your Mark
with DVD
by Claire Benn
& Leslie Morgan
52 pages, paperback, color,
from Porrer's Farm
Creating cloth for imagery, stitch, embroidery & embellishment. Using this book will enable you to create beautiful personal cloth, perfect backgrounds for additional imagery, stitch or embroidery or ready to use as garment or interiors yardage. If your into collage or quilt making the cloth will make a great contribution to a palette for cutting and re-structuring.
$57.95 [Add to Cart] |
Finding your Own Visual Language
by Jane Dunnewold, Claire Benn,
& Leslie Morgan
coil bound, softcover, 64 pages, color,
from Committed to cloth & Art Cloth Studios
Learn the principles of design concepts, and how to use them to your advantage. This book contains four sections: Getting Started, Continuing On, What To Do When You Get Stuck, and How to Delve Deeper Into Your Own Self. It is designed as a guide to accompany you on your journey as an artist. Visual exercises include Mono Printing, Mark Making, Collecting Textures, and much more.
$46.95 [Add to Cart] |
How To Be Creative in Textile Art
by Julia Triston
& Rachel Lombard
128 pages, hard cover, color,
from Batsford
Unlock your inner creativity to produce unique and beautiful pieces of textile art. This fascinating book guides and supports you through the whole creative process, from initial inspiration to finished piece. The authors provide a wealth of ideas, tips and techniques to help you explore your chosen themes with confidence. Illustrated with stunning examples of contemporary textile art, this book is a must have for textile artists of all skill levels.
$27.95 [Add to Cart] |
The Art of Fabric Collage
An Easy Introduction to Creative Sewing
by Rosemary Eichorn
paperback, 170 pages, color,
from Taunton Press
Take your creative spirit to new heights with the fun of fabric collage. It's easier than you think--and with Rosemary's thorough instructions, you will enjoy learning dozens of new and exciting techniques. Especially good for those interested in wearable art quilts, but the techniques will work for any fabric collage/quilted piece.
$21.95 [Add to Cart] |
Design Explorations
for the Creative Quilter
By Katie Pasquini Masopust
80 pages, soft cover, full color,
from C&T Publishing
Explore 10 approaches to designing art quilts with techniques that work for everyone, from beginning to advanced. Learn the basic elements of successful composition in a fun, easy, and painless manner - Katie's clearly and simply explained approach to abstract design can make even the most novice art quilter feel confident and inspired.
$24.95 [Add to Cart] |
Stash and Smash
by Cindy Shepard
51 pages, paperback, color,
from Design Originals
Use your stash, be Creative, have fun! Turn everyday objects from life into Art Journals! Stash books tell a personal story. What you carefully preserve and present in you journal reveals the kind of person you are. Your book leaves evidence of what is important to you, the experiences that shaped your life, your values, your interests and your talents.
$16.99 [Add to Cart] |
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