Hand-painted Textiles: A Practical Guide to the Art of Painting on Fabric
£20.90£23.80 (-12%)
Fabrics bring colour and vibrance to our lives, adding inventiveness and charm to both our clothes and our domestic interiors.
In this book, lifelong textile designer Sarah Campbell takes you through her world of pattern and colour to uncover the joys of design from dots, stripes and checks to more surprising decorative solutions. Painting straight onto fabric is a very different experience to designing for digital production. Everything is unique, the placing of the patterns and colours is in your hands. The beauty is that the pattern doesn’t have to repeat – there can be just one bird or just one square, if it’s in the right place. Beautifully illustrated with Sarah’s colourful and internationally acclaimed work, her fabric designs show the comforting rhythm and universal language of pattern.
– Learn how to create your own unique designs using a range of tools and techniques including brushes and potato-cuts, stencils and simple ‘kitchen cupboard’ resists.
– Explore the delights of painting on different fabrics such as cotton, linen, silk and calico/muslin.
– Develop your understanding of scale, colour, tonality and the organisation of pattern ideas, alongside suggestions on how to use your finished fabrics.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Herbert Press (16 Feb. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 176 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1789940648 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1789940640 |
| Dimensions | 22.48 x 1.78 x 28.19 cm |
by Janie
The book is packed with ideas and how to do the projects. Very pleased with my purchase.
by Amazon Customer
For such an expensive book I would have expected more developmental sharing, The doyenne of mark making offers little about the most important aspect of mark making, repeat patterning,
Leaving out the most important aspect of textile creation and discussing mark making ideas which can be found elsewhere.
Yes, the book show cases her own work beautifully and offers some creative ideas, but it takes the budding textile artist, who may want to move on with their work, no where in terms of development in my opinion.. I am quite cross.
This was too conservative a book, allowing textile creation to remain a mystery, the main thing that textile aspirants want to know nowadays is how to create a piece of textile art that can go on to be printed even on short runs. This is where textile art is going. Grrrrr
We all want to digitally print hand painted work at some point, and this lends no advice on that at all as far as I can see and is the poorer for it, given that the artist is a commercial creative even a helpful short chapter on digital printing of artwork would have been helpful.
by in stitches
Sarah Campbell’s wealth of experience of putting joyous colour and pattern onto cloth comes shining through in this book. She presents a range of techniques, exploring the possibilities of brush painting, block printing, stencils, and the elements of simple repeat patterns. The photographs are superb, and the instructions are clear and concise. This is as close as you can get to experiencing a workshop with Sarah – which I would also recommend! A beautiful book which should inspire lots of experimentation and successful results.
by Penryn
I really enjoy this book. Its inspiring and interesting and a good way to get started in learning to approach new techniques.