Textile nature :

Title:

Textile nature : textile techniques and inspiration from the natural world / Anne Kelly.

Personal Author:

Kelly, Anne,

Call Number:

746 K2958

ISBN:

9781849943437

Physical Description:

128 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Contents:

Drawing from nature -- Planting in cloth -- Taking flight -- Working with green spaces -- Nature in context.

Summary:

"Create original textiles inspired by plants, flowers, gardens, insects, and birds. This gorgeous guide teaches fiber artists how to draw directly from nature, use sketchbooks and mood boards to explore their local environment, and make small pieces (such as folding books) based on observational drawing and stitch. Covering everything from stenciling motifs, to printing with plants onto fabric, to taking your design into three dimensions, this stunning collection includes a range of projects."--Publisher's description.

Subject Term:

Textile crafts.

Nature craft.

Publication:

London : Batsford, an imprint of Pavilion Books Company Ltd, 2016.

New York, NY : Distribited in the United States and Canada by Sterling Publishing Co., Inc, 2016

Format:

Books

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Summary

Draw from the natural world of plants, flowers, gardens, insects and birds for inspiration in your textile art.

Plants, flowers, gardens, insects and birds are a rich source of inspiration for artists and designers of all kinds. This beautiful guide demonstrates how to get the most out of your surroundings to create original and unique pieces in textiles.

Beginning with Drawing from Nature, the book demonstrates how to use sketchbooks and create mood boards to explore your local environment and landscape, building up to making small pieces such as folding books based on observational drawing and stitch. Moving on to Floral Inspiration, the author shows how to use plants and flowers in your work, from using stencilled flower motifs as embellishment to printing with plants onto fabric and making simple relief prints. Finally, Taking Flight demonstrates how to move into threedimensions and sculptural work with birds and insects made from cloth.

Featuring step-by-step projects as well as work from contemporary artists, makers and collaborative groups throughout, this practical and beautiful guide shows how practitioners of all kinds can draw from the natural world for making and inspiration.

Author Notes

Anne Kelly is a textile artist and tutor. She trained in Canada and the UK and now teaches and speaks to guilds and groups. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, including private collections in the UK and abroad, the Vatican Collection in Rome and at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. She was recently artist-in-residence at Sussex Prairies Garden in West Sussex and exhibited at the international World of Threads Festival and the Prague Patchwork Meeting. She is the co-author of Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford.