Product Description

Cyanotyping, sometimes called blueprinting, is a simple
process for producing subtle, detailed images that works beautifully on
fabric; Prussian blue and white - calm, cool, classical and utterly
beautiful. Mix this technique from the 1840s with natural leaves and
flowers or with modern digital negatives, and perhaps some textile
techniques, and you have a wide range of image making possibilities. Add
cyanotype images to your quilts, wallhangings or wearable art ...

The book has 96 pages in full colour and includes chapters on: 'Preparing
the fabric' (smooth, textured and restricted area backgrounds), 'Making the
prints' (including photograms, digital negatives, manipulating the fabric
and `putting it all together'), 'Exposure', 'Processing','So you don't want
blue' (toning, under-dyeing, over-dyeing and painting) and 'Taking care of
your cyanotypes'. There are also appendices on health and safety, copyright
and hardware/software as well as a list of suppliers and a bibliography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #724151 in Books
• Published on: 2006-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Craftsman Magazine, January 2007
... a book from an expert for people of all levels of experience.
Ruth is hugely enthusiastic about her work.

From the Publisher
This book is a tribute to, and continuation of, the work of
Barbara Hewitt, author of `Blueprints on Fabric'. It includes examples of
work by several textile artists working in cyanotype on fabric in the UK as
well as examples of Barbara's work and, of course, that of the author.
Ruth's background in IT has enabled her to work with digital images to
create large negatives that are then used to incorporate these images into
designs on silk, cotton, linen and velvet.

About the Author
Ruth has had a varied career starting in business
administration, progressing through teaching IT, to computer network
management and application development resulting in a total of almost 20
years working in IT.

Following a long illness Ruth left full-time IT work and developed a new
career as a self-taught textile artist using a wide variety of techniques,
including the cyanotype process, on fabric. This mixes her IT knowledge, in
the form of digital negatives, with her textile work and has resulted in
the latest element of her portfolio career, her first book, `Cyanotypes on
Fabric', which she also designed and published!

She is currently working on her second book (having got the writing `bug')
`Digital Images on Fabric'.