Art Cloth A Guide to Surface Design for Fabrics

A comprehensive guide to creating rich texture, color, and pattern with art cloth using surface design products and a wealth of technique combinations.

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