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.
Table of Contents
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 #: 10QM01
ISBN: 9781596681958
176 pages
Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.25 Inches
belongs on every surface design artists and enthusiasts book shelf
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Few artists have had the far reaching and influential impact on the fiber art world as Jane Dunnewold. Her book “Complex Cloth” is considered the must have bible for fiber artists. Since the release of that book, the art of surface design has exploded with new products, techniques and fabrics to work with and combine to create what Jane calls “art cloth”. Cloth with layers of color, texture, imagery rich with the imagination of the fiber artist who creates it.
The book opens with the fundamentals reviewing the work space, materials and an overview of the layer building process and then moves into the actual techniques and processes for creating a piece of art cloth. Techniques covered include starting with adding color and covers fiber-reactive dyes and textile paints which is followed by discharge methods. Learn how to create your own stamps and stencils, work with water based resists, methods for screen printing and how to use foiling and leafing to add depth, brilliance and textural interest to your cloth. Novices to surface design will find it easy to achieve success with each technique with Jane''s clearly written and easy to understand directions of each technique and process. Experienced fiber artists will probably not find anything new for them in this book but will benefit from being able to learn how a master surface designer uses them. 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.
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