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Machine Embroidery and Textile Decoration

Machine Embroidery and Textile Decoration: Creating Accessories for Your Body and Sole (Paperback)
by Elli Woodsford (Author)
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As the interest in decorative sewing, fibre arts and wearable art continues to grow, leading textile designers and teachers like Elli Woodsford are studying with master garment and costume design experts in London to expand and hone their skills. She shares the result of her studies and fibre art creations in this new book.

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Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidery

Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidery (Beginner's guide to series) (Paperback)
by Pamela Watts (Author)
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This fresh and original guide to creating unusual and beautiful embroideries offers a wealth of information, with easy-to-follow stitch samplers, projects and inspirational photographs of finished pieces.

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Stitch, Dissolve, Distort

Stitch, Dissolve, Distort with Machine Embroidery

Valarie Campbell-Harding and Maggie Grey
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The book looks at the new and exciting techniques to dissolve, melt and distort fabric, both before and after stitching. These techniques add texture, colour and depth to the work of all textile workers: embroiderers and quilters. Some of the fabrics and materials can be dissolved, some melted, some punched and slashed, and some distorted. The book explores the various techniques with easy-to-follow steps. All the methods are safe and without the need for specialised equipment. Fantastically illustrated with work by Maggie and Val and a selection from fellow textile artists, the book also includes clear step-by-step instructions and diagrams, plus tips on design. The book is logically structured as follows: Materials and Equipment, Washing Away the Fabric, Attacking the Fabric, and Distorting the Fabric. All the latest techniques and materials available both in the UK and the US are brought together in this book to ensure the textile artist has the a wealth of information to bring further creativity to their own work.

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Raising The Surface with Machine Embroidery

by Maggie Gray
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This is a very strong bestselling title - new in paperback. A ground-breaking book when first published in 2003, it is now a classic for all those involved in the textile world. It features exciting, innovative and modern machine embroidery from one of the most accomplished writers on the subject. "Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery" (HB 07134 8851 4) is a book for everyone who is interested in texture in embroidery. Beautifully illustrated, it is structured in six chapters, covering: backgrounds, often using experimental or unusual materials; raising the surface a little to produce highly textured, low-relief embroideries; the next step - raising the surface even more; using applied motifs for high-relief textiles; frames, masks and high-relief panels; and three-dimensional constructions, bowls, vessels and towers. Lavishly illustrated with over 95 colour photographs, the book includes clear diagrams and detailed instructions, step-by-step where necessary. All you need is enthusiasm and a swing needle sewing machine to make the wonderful textures featured within these pages.

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Beginners guide to machine embroidered flowers

Beginners guide to machine embroidered flowers

By Alison Holt
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Combining her love of gardens and landscapes with her skills as an artist and a machine embroiderer, Alison Holt shows you how to create exquisite flower pictures using your sewing machine. Alison's interpretations of what she sees in nature are so detailed that many people at first mistake her embroideries for paintings or even photographs. Alison's technique is to use her sewing machine like a paintbrush to apply threads in a myriad of different colours on to a canvas of hand-painted silk. This comprehensive and colourful book covers everything from composing a picture and setting up the machine to choosing threads and silk paints and creating different effects in stitch. Each of the three step-by-step projects allow you to put all you have learnt into practice to make a stunningly effective embroidered picture, and will inspire you to transform what you see around you into your own, unique designs.

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Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidered Landscapes

Beginner's Guide to Machine Embroidered Landscapes (Beginner's Guide to Series) (Paperback)
by Alison Holt (Author)
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Beginners will enjoy experimenting with thread colours, and the size and direction of the stitches and will have great fun building up a range of exciting effects. Many people at first mistake Alison Holt's embroideries for paintings or even photographs. She is fascinated by gardens, landscapes and detail and enjoys the challenge of interpreting all the elements she sees in nature. Alison's way of working has evolved into a technique of painting with threads on to a canvas of hand-painted silk. She uses two basic stitches - straight stitch in various combinations and zigzag stitch - to make fine and broad brushstrokes on silk, blending both to achieve stunning results. The raised embroidery on the glowing coloured background produces a beautiful three-dimensional effect. This comprehensive and colourful book covers everything from composing a landscape and setting up the machine to choosing threads and silk dyes and framing up. Alison encourages the reader to experiment with the techniques as they go along, making sure the colour, length and direction of stitch are right for the effect they are trying to recreate. Step-by-step demonstrations of an autumn river bank and colourful flower border are included as are many examples of Alison's inspiring and original work.

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