Product Description

Aimed at textile artists and textile designers, "Print, Pattern and Colour" is a glorious celebration of the potential of printing and repeat patterns on fabric. Packed with accessible but imaginative techniques, it covers: monoprinting using sponges, rollers and textured surfaces; blocks and stencils, both commercially bought and homemade; screenprinting, including the use of photo-sensitive screens; using interesting media such as Markal paint sticks, thickened dyes, metallic and pearlescent paints and discharge paste; developing print ideas on paper before taking them to fabric; and, combining print with stitch and fabric manipulation. Beautifully illustrated with sumptuous photographs that show off the author's infectious love of colour, this book contains a wealth of inspiration for using print in embroidery and textiles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #160145 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

About the Author
Renowned for her use of colour, Ruth Issett is acknowledged as one of the UK's best textile artists. She teaches and lectures internationally and is a member of the prestigious textile artists' collective the Practical Study Group. She has written three previous books for Batsford, including the best selling Colour on Cloth (ISBN 0713489014), and writes regularly for leading embroidery magazines. She also exhibits widely and takes on private commissions. She lives in Ashford, Kent.

Customer Reviews

A good introduction, but you'll need more than this
Don't buy this if it is the only book on printing that you intend to buy. It is a good book to introduce you to paper and fabric printing using modern materials which are all easy to purchase on the internet. The explanations are reasonable but no step-by-step pics. This is to encourage you to experiment, but could prevent you from actually being brave enough to start something. Her own fabrics are inspirational! I am looking out for a step-by-step book to use along with this one.

Excellent
This book was a revelation for me: I found answers for all the questions I had how to realize my ideas concerning modern quilts and coloring them ...

great spring board
great spring board for ideas, a book to keep referring to time and time again