Art Cloth: A Guide to Surface Design for Fabric - Softcover

Dunnewold, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596681950 ISBN 13: 9781596681958

Publisher: Interweave, 2010

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to creating rich texture, color, and pattern with art cloth using surface design products and a wealth of technique combinations.

When Jane Dunnewold's book Complex Cloth was published in 1996, it quickly became the bible of surface design for fiber artists. In the years since, the world of surface design has significantly expanded: now fiber artists, art-to-wear designers, and art quilters have a much broader range of surface design products to choose from, and there are a wealth of technique combinations that can be used to create art cloth.

Art Cloth picks up where Complex Cloth left off, showing how to layer processes with the latest products to create stunning cloth for use in a variety of fiber art. Following Jane's techniques with step-by-step photography, you will learn to create art cloth using dyes, color removing agents, paints, and foils combined through processes that include silk-screen printing, stamping, stenciling, and handpainting.

In addition to detailed step-by-step wet-media surface design techniques, Jane demonstrates how the use of color and design contributes to successful layering. She guides and inspires artists to take their art cloth to the next level through sidebars with design tips and exercises that support the technical information. Each techniques chapter concludes with project ideas for the skills learned, so anyone working through the book can literally build layers on cloth as each chapter is completed.

About this title

About the Author

Jane Dunnewold has been an influential textile artist for more than 20 years and is the author of Complex Cloth. She teaches and exhibits internationally, and her awards include Quilt National, the Quilt Japan Prize, and the Gold Prize at the Taegu International Textile Exhibition. Jane maintains Art Cloth Studios, an exhibition and teaching facility she shares with a group of artists in San Antonio, Texas.

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By following Jane's techniques with detailed step-by-step photography, readers will learn: To create art cloth using dyes, color-removing agents, paints, and foils To combine processes, such as silkscreen printing, stamping, stenciling, and handpainting, for unique effects Key tips and techniques for color mixing and design New techniques pioneered by Jane not shown in other books

Edition details

• Publisher: Interweave
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596681950
• ISBN 13: 9781596681958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176