If you're a stitcher, crafter, scrapbooker, textile artist, or papermaker, you'll go gaga over Paper, Metal & Stitch! Authors Maggie Grey and Jane Wild show you how to work wonders with paper and metal, and unexpectedly infuse elemental embroidery stitches to really rev up your projects. This book is divided into two easy-to-read sections, Paper and Metal, that describe textural methods, adding color, and embellishing with stitches. Readers are led through basic, texture-building steps to exciting finishing ideas for combining techniques, and using both paper and metal in new ways with a variety of media. Most of the techniques can be intermixed and combined, bringing together paper and metal and thread. Paper can be molded, formed, cut, torn, and stitched; metal adds a seductive gleam and new dimensions are explored using fine, soft, sheet metals, meshes, wires, and coils. Some special equipment is needed but most can be found in your workroom or kitchen along with materials ranging from tomato pur??e tubes to brown paper bags! You'll find lots of new ideas and innovative methods, from melting techniques for embossing powders to using paper with heat-reactive threads. The stunning four-color photos and clear illustrations make this book candy for the eyes and food for creativity.
Reviews: "Buy this book and be inspired, your needlework will never be the same."-Needlepoint Now
Introduction
Using the book
The book is divided into two parts?????Paper and Metal.
The two parts follow a similar pattern, describing forming methods,
ways of adding color and texture and, finally, stitch. Most of the
ideas can be intermixed and can be combined, bringing together paper
and metal.
Part One: Paper
1 Paper Textures
Purchased papers
Cutting, tearing, and burning
Crumpling and creasing paper
Piecing paper
Etched paper
Acrylic texture gels and gesso
Puff paint
Making your own paper
Embossing
Embedded paper
2 Paper Shaping
Making molds
Collagraph method
Making a master shape
Using the molds
3 Color and Metal Effects on Paper
Surface decorations
4 Into Paper with Stitch
Reinforcing paper for stitch
Stitching by hand
Stitching with the machine
Links
Fusible thread and soluble film
Cold water soluble film
Weaving
Combining techniques
Moving On
Part Two: Metal
5 Getting Started with Metal
Materials
Embossing the metal shim
Stitching by machine
Stitching by hand
Paper crinkler
Using wire
Working with thicker metal
Sampler
6 Coloring the Metal
Masks and stencils
Vinegar solutions
Acrylic paints and patinating waxes
Chemical patination agents
Spirit-soluble dyes
Glass paints
Using embossing powders with metal
Decorating the metal with Lazertran
7 Into Metal with Stitch
Backgrounds for metal
Into stitch
Applying fabrics to metal
Borders
8 Putting it All Together
Icons and manuscripts
Alternatives for patches
Weaving techniques with paper and metal
Resources and Bibliography
Index