The new and easy-to-download Art Cloth eBook is 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. Introduction
Art Cloth Fundamentals
Chapter 1: Work Space, Tools, and Materials
Chapter 2: Building Layers
Techniques and Processes
Chapter 3: Adding Color: Fiber-Reactive Dyes and Textile Paints
Chapter 4: Removing Color: Discharge Methods
Chapter 5: Making Tools: Stamps and Stencils
Chapter 6: Print and Pattern: Water-Based Resists
Chapter 7: Print and Pattern: Screenprinting
Chapter 8: Metallics: Foiling and Leafing
Appendix
Pure Dye Colors and Weights in Grams
Useful Measurements
How to Dye a Color Wheel
Resources
Bibliography
Index 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. "Few artists have had the far reaching and influential impact on the fiber art world as Jane Dunnewold. This new book by Jane will most assuredly follow in the footsteps of Complex Cloth as the surface design bible for any artist working with cloth and belongs on every surface design artists and enthusiasts’ book shelf." -- Sue Bleiweiss Blog
"It’s interesting, instructional, and inspiring. Whether you're an experienced textile artist or simply love fabric, Art Cloth is a definite must-have and a welcomed addition to workrooms and bookshelves." -- Hand/Eye Magazine Item #: 10Z009
ISBN: 9781596686175
176 pages
Excellent book that very clearly and methodically lays out the basics for creating art cloth. There is nothing earth-shatteringly new in here, but its all together, in the one place, and the author logically progresses from one technique to another. Jane Dunnewald's explanantions for the why it could be better to do it this way, or why one product has advantages over than another are detailed enough without being wordy, and very simple to understand if, like me, you are jargon-challenged!
There are no projects to follow - this is a reference book par excellence, one you will keep close by to refer to when trying out a new technique, or troubleshooting something that may have worked in the past. I would recommend having it close by when trying new techniques from other books, as this will give you the basis from which to judge the success of what you are doing, and whether what you are about to do may have unforseen results.
I wish I had bought it sooner; it could have helped me overcome more than a few oopsies, lol!
Art Cloth eBook: A Guide to Surface Design for Fabrics
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The new and easy-to-download Art Cloth eBook is a comprehensive guide to creating rich texture, color, and pattern with art cloth using surface design products and a wealth of technique combinations.
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