This book explores the use of handmade and purchased papers alongside metal in textile art and embroidery, providing ideas for combining these materials with stitch to create finished pieces like books, panels, icons, and frames.
Valerie Campbell-Harding and Maggie Grey, renowned embroidery authors, creatively transform Celtic imagery into fabric and textiles through machine embroidery.
A quest for deeper meaning drives the protagonist as she grapples with feelings of dissatisfaction and yearning for a more fulfilling life. Her internal struggle prompts a journey of self-discovery, where she seeks to uncover her true desires and purpose. Through various experiences and encounters, she learns to confront her fears and embrace change, ultimately leading to transformative realizations about herself and her place in the world.
The embellisher machine has been used by felters for some time but it has recently exploded into the world of creative stitchers. The book not only covers the embellisher machine but has lots of ideas for using felting needles by hand. The book covers: the basics of using machine and hand techniques, applying fabrics and fibres texturing and trapping, pattern making, the vital use of stitch, heat techniques, felting, couching, manipulating and weaving.
This book explores exciting techniques to dissolve, melt, and distort fabric, both pre- and post-stitching, with easy-to-follow steps. All methods are safe and do not require specialized equipment.
This book explores modern machine embroidery, including techniques for creating textured low-relief and high-relief embroideries, applied motifs, and three-dimensional constructions like bowls and towers.