Product Description

With the number and variety of surfaces used for embroidery and textile art expanding, this is a timely book that concentrates on two of the key new materials now incorporated into textiles paper and metal. Paper is of great interest to embroiderers. It can be used as a base for a variety of techniques and to enhance and embellish work. It can be manipulated, cut, torn, stitched, and moulded into any shape or form. You can add colour, texture and metallic effects. Metal has long been associated with stitch in the form of metal thread embroidery, but new sources of metal are available, such as metal shim - very thin, stitch-friendly slices of real metal; glittering metal meshes, wires and coils, beads and foils and recycled domestic metals. Stitch is the ultimate enhancer and possible effects range from delicate tracery to enliven a silver and pastel scheme to the heavy stitch and rich gold of old icons and frames. With several step-by-step photographs of key techniques plus images of finished pieces, the book is divided up as follows: Making and Shaping Paper; Texturing and Colouring Paper; Metallic Effects on Paper; Stitch into Paper (with and without fabric); Varieties of metals

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #248923 in Books
• Published on: 2004-09-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

About the Author
Maggie Grey is the author of several books, including Layers of Stitch and Celtic Inspirations for Machine Embroidery. She is the former editor of The World of Embroidery magazine and now runs Workshop On The Web. Lives in Ferndown, Dorset. Jane Wild is an expert on the use of paper in embroidery. She teaches and exhibits her work widely. Jane lives in Wimbourne, Dorset.

Customer Reviews

EXCELLENT!!!!
This book is a must for anyone!! Beautifully illustrated, it gives the reader lots of ideas for using different techniques that can be incorporated into numerous crafts. Anyone having done a C&G embroidery course will love it!

Reading this book is like leaving a Chocoholic in a Thornton's store overnight - ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! I would recommend this book to anyone.

Fantastic
An absolutely lovely book, fantastic photo's, great ideas, it made me want to drop everything and head for my craft room. I would recommend this book to every crafter who is looking for inspiration.

sharissa
I am an A level fine art student and wanted to use new ideas in my work using fabrics and metal etc. This book is very exciting and colourful and the paper making ideas are brilliant, i would highly recommend it to any art student.