Tapestry Weaving: A Comprehensive Study Guide - Hardcover

Harvey, Nancy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626540934 ISBN 13: 9781626540934

Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, 2015

Synopsis

It's easy to learn tapestry weaving from start to finish with Nancy Harvey, one of America's best-known teachers of this exciting craft. Using the same clear step-by-step approach that makes her workshops so successful, Nancy leads you through building a simple frame loom, to mastering the basic techniques, to completing handsome pieces based on her designs. She even provides tips on how to prepare designs of your own. In this book, you will find:

• Beginning and intermediate samplers to help you learn the basics
• Hundreds of highlighted tips for weavers of all levels of experience
• Six practice designs for building skills
• Ideas inspiring your own designs, even if you "can't draw"
• Over 380 illustrations and photographs

With hundreds of diagrams, tips, and tapestry designs, Tapestry Weaving: A Comprehensive Study Guide is essential reading for tapestry artists and handweavers alike.

About this title

About the Author

Nancy Harvey's tapestries hang in homes and art collections all over the country and her videos, books and workshops have brought the pleasures of tapestry weaving to thousands. A charter member of the American Tapestry Alliance, Nancy makes her home in Colfax, California, where she owns and operates Victorian Video Productions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626540934
• ISBN 13: 9781626540934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210