Textile Portraits
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Textile Portraits
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Author : Anne Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Batsford Books
Release Date : 2023-09-28
Textile Portraits written by Anne Kelly and has been published by Batsford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-28 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
A creative and beautiful book packed with inspiring ideas to help you capture likenesses and explore personalities in stitch, from a well-loved textile artist. Anne Kelly's evocative and nostalgic work often incorporates portraits – of friends, family, historical figures and even pets. Within these pages she shares her approach to textile portraiture, bringing in a wealth of different embroidery techniques, including hand and machine embroidery, quilting and appliqué, to render in cloth the nuances of facial expressions and the personalities of her subjects. The book covers: • Selfies at Home: making the perfect self-portrait in cloth. • Representation and Culture: how portraits have been used in textile art for cultural expression around the world. • Stylized Imagery: going beyond the traditional portrait into abstraction. • Place and Time: creating a sense of place with portraiture, sometimes incorporating photographs. • Narratives: how to create a fuller story using deeply personal ephemera and related imagery. • Pet Projects: immortalising your pets in your textile work. Beautifully illustrated with stunning examples of her own work and that of intriguing textile artists who specialise in portraiture from around the world, this is the ideal book for embroiderers and textile artists who want to introduce this often tricky subject area into their work.
Embroidered Portraits
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Author : Jan Messent
language : en
Publisher: Search PressLtd
Release Date : 2012
Embroidered Portraits written by Jan Messent and has been published by Search PressLtd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Art categories.
"With a different and delightfully practical approach to a traditional and time-honored subject, Jan Messent shows you how to create portraits in stitch. There are simple instructions for shaping and padding different-angled heads, creating faces, adding features and stitching the hair and garments, as well as explorations of the most suitable fabrics, stitches, threads and embellishments to use. Within this book you will discover a host of personalities, including a mysterious white Edwardian lady, the formidable Bess of Hardwicke and a 'book-box' that opens to reveal exquisite renditions of Cinderella and Prince Charming. All of Jan's portraits are filled with character and charm, and have a timeless appeal that will enthral and excite textile artists and embroiderers alike"--Dust jacket cover.
Pet Portrait Art Quilts
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Author : Deborah Wirsu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-22
Pet Portrait Art Quilts written by Deborah Wirsu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-22 with categories.
Capture the personality of your pets by transforming your photos into creative fabric collage portrait quilts. Fully illustrated (in color), Pet Portrait Art Quilts shows you how to create unique art quilt animal portraits using fused appliqué and free-motion stitch. These fabric collage portrait quilts are easy to make, regardless of experience in art quilting, appliqué, free-motion stitching, or photography. In Pet Portrait Art Quilts, you'll discover: Chapter 1: Discover your style. Learn how to unlock your personal style. Chapter 2: The key to great fabric collage portraits. Discover how to understand light, shadow, and value. Also, find out what goes into creating a good composition. Chapter 3: Color. Learn all about color, color schemes, and how to select fabric for your collage. Chapter 4: Equipment and Supplies. Most of the things you need are probably already right there in your sewing room! This chapter gives a comprehensive list. Chapter 5: Choosing a photo. Discover what is important, and what is not, in photo selection. Chapter 6: Prepare your photo: Simple editing. Learn how to quickly edit images, without the need for complicated computer programs. Chapter 7: Picture to Pattern. A step-by-step guide to easy pattern creation you can do at home. Chapter 8: Collage construction. A simple technique for assembling your collage. Chapter 9: Creating a background. How to create a complementary background for your animal portrait quilt. Chapter 10: Stitching techniques. Discover the different options you have for stitching your design. Chapter 11: Binding and finishing. Traditional and contemporary methods for binding and displaying art quilts. Appendix A: Fused appliqué fundamentals. A quick guide to the fused appliqué technique (and how to do it). Appendix B: Guide to stitching options. A handy reference guide to stitching. Appendix C: The Value Scale. Contains a copy of the Value Scale to photocopy, or how to make your own with paper, a ruler, and a pencil. If you want a simple, versatile technique to create unique fabric collage pet portraits, you'll love this fully illustrated book! Learn all the necessary skills to make pet or animal portrait art quilts in any style you choose. Once you know the fundamentals, this fabric collage method can be applied to any portrait style, including 'people' portraits, as well as landscapes, floral designs, or abstracts. Perfect for beginners or those with some experience in art quilting. There are no prerequisites for getting started! Scroll to the top and click the BUY button now.About the Author Australian textile artist, author, teacher, and musician, Deborah Wirsu, shares how to make creative art using fabric and thread. She offers inspiration, ideas, easy-to-follow advice, and informative tips, tutorials and online classes. Early forays into sewing, textile arts, and crafts led to a fascination with creating visually appealing artworks using surprisingly easy-to-master technqiues. As a successful author, and with over 17 online classes, Deborah's passion for writing and teaching online has allowed her to reach out to thousands of readers and students worldwide through her books and online academy.
Gio Swaby
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2022-04-12
Gio Swaby written by and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with Art categories.
Accompanied by a traveling exhibition, this book on the Bahamian artist’s textile portraits serves as a love letter to Black women: their style, strength, vulnerabilities, and beauty. This debut of the 29-year-old Bahamian-born artist aims to redefine the often-politicized Black body, with portraits made in a range of textile-based techniques, such as embroidery and appliqué, celebrating Black women. Gio Swaby’s intimate portraits are unique, highly personal figurative works made from an array of colorful fabrics and intricate, freehand lines of thread on canvas that explore the intersections of Blackness and womanhood. Illustrated with 80 works in full color that span from 2017 to 2021, this is the first book on this contemporary feminist artist who is a rising star in the world of textiles and portraiture. According to Swaby, “I wanted to create a space where we could see ourselves reflected in a moment of joy, celebrated without expectations, without connected stereotypes.” Writers and scholars with multiple points of view take on Swaby’s work and delve into her place within contemporary Black art.
Women S Textile Primacy
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Author : Charlotte Posever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Women S Textile Primacy written by Charlotte Posever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
"Although portraits of the colonial Peruvian elite have been included in recent scholarly inquiries, little attention has been paid to the women depicted in these paintings, many of whose identities remain anonymous. While an analysis of visual iconography is informative in contextualizing these works within the colonial dichotomy of “Spanish” and “Andean” cultures, a focus on the clothing and garments included in these works allows for a new way of viewing these portraits. While the men in these images often are adorned in more European-style clothing, women remain connected to pre-Columbian forms and styles of dress through their specific and purposeful display of native textiles. Textiles played a large role in Andean society, functioning as ritual objects, gifts, tribute payment, in addition to being day to day clothing. I suggest that women had their own distinct textile primacy as evidenced by the visual continuities of women’s garments seen in a corpus of colonial portraits. Women’s deep involvement in the textile production process in Inca society, as well as women’s primordial connections to cloth in origin myths manifested through the mythical first queen, Mama Huaco, both support a claim to this primacy. I propose that an understanding of women’s specific textile primacy can be reached not only through examining colonial portraits of elite women but also by looking to women’s roles in Inca origin myths and in the Inca reality which highlight women’s ties to textiles. By offering an alternative way to view these colonial paintings and examining Inca women’s connections to cloth, clothing, and cloth production, a definition of women’s textile primacy can begin to be unveiled"--
Narrative Of The Souls
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Author : Marla Jackson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-07-29
Narrative Of The Souls written by Marla Jackson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-29 with categories.
"From the personal to the poetic to the political, Marla Jackson informs, entrances, and provokes." ~ Dr Burdett Loomis, Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas."Narrative of the Souls -- Quilted Portraits" takes us on a journey through the heart and mind of world-renowned visual narrative artist and quilter Marla A. Jackson. Thirty-four remarkable color prints of her narrative quilts created from Batik- and Shibori-dyed cotton, wool, denim, shells, beads, sequins, feathers, acrylic paint, and the fabric of Jackson's life-grace the pages.Jackson's narrative quilts are inspired by the oral histories of her ancestors and the Kansas region. These "narratives of her soul", take the viewer on a journey that is a "Quiet Storm", as described by Painter, Quilter, & Instructor, Theresa Polley-Shellcroft."What comes through for us in every image confirms Jackson's artistry and her storytelling brilliance, as she translates the abstract into the real, the invisible and ignored into the visible, one thread at a time," according to Maryemma graham, university of Kansas distinguished professor & founder/director, project on the history of black writing."Jackson's quilts possess the power to transform, and to make you cry-between their soulfulness, and their beauty," praises Susan Earle, PhD, Curator of European and American Art, Spencer Museum of Art, KU.Marla Jackson is a recipient of the "Anyone Can Fly" annual Lifetime Achievement award given by Faith Ringgold in 2018, and she was awarded a Phoenix Award from the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission in 2016.Marla A. Jackson is a self-taught fiber artist, painter, dollmaker, indigo dyer, Shibori dyer, portrait artist, seamstress - and now an author. She is a world-renowned visual narrative artist and quilter, and community-based visual art educator. Her works have been exhibited in more than 35 national and international venues, including the American Folk Art Museum and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. She founded Marla Quilts, Inc. African American Quilt Museum and Textile Academy in 2012. She lives with her husband in Lawrence, Kansas.
Carry You With Me Ten Years Of Portraits
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-28
Carry You With Me Ten Years Of Portraits written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with categories.
Embroidered portraits of New York City's queer and trans communities The result of a long-term, ongoing project by Brooklyn-based artist LJ Roberts (born 1980), Ten Years of Portraitsconsists of six-by-four-inch embroidered portraits of the artist's friends, collaborators and lovers within New York City's queer and trans communities. Stitched entirely by hand and typically completed during transit on subway trains, these textile works--culminating in Roberts' first publication as well as their first New York solo exhibition at Pioneer Works--aim to illustrate how politics, culture and identity manifest in both visible and subtle ways through everyday encounters in daily life. Depicting both the rectos and versos of each embroidery, this publication presents portraiture in both figurative and abstract form while also providing us a glimpse into the textile craft. For Roberts, the adaptability of these techniques mirrors the flexibility, resilience and resourcefulness needed to navigate the world as a queer, gender nonconforming and nonbinary person.
Cloth Stories
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Author : Ali Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Batsford Books
Release Date : 2024-03-14
Cloth Stories written by Ali Ferguson and has been published by Batsford Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-14 with Crafts & Hobbies categories.
A textile artist's guide to creating exquisite, intimate and nostalgic work inspired by the home. Ali Ferguson's work takes inspiration from domestic life and the objects that surround and comfort us in our homes. Vintage fabric and hand-embroidered text are beautifully paired to create evocative pieces that are imbued with the magic of everyday existence. In this wonderful book Ali reveals the secrets of her work and shares her ingenious methods for finding inspiration at home to create stunning work that uses embroidery, quilting, collage and found objects. Chapter One explains how to create 'threads of thought' that stem from the tiniest details within the rooms of your home, resulting in extensive mind maps you can use to inspire your finished work. Chapter Two shows how to translate these ideas into stitch and select the perfect materials for the mood you want to convey in your work. The rest of the chapters take you through the different rooms in a typical home, from kitchen to bedroom, giving a wealth of ideas for finding inspiration from each of these spaces in your own household, accessing memories, stories and emotions to help you create intensely personal and meaningful textile art pieces. Beautifully illustrated with the author's own work and that of other leading textile artists who draw inspiration from home life, this book revels in cloth and the joy that it brings to every textile artist. It is the ideal book for any artist or embroiderer who wants to explore new sources of inspiration on their very doorstep.
A Series Of Portraits Of Inventors Of Machines For The Manufacture Of Textile Fabrics
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Author : Bennet Woodcroft
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862
A Series Of Portraits Of Inventors Of Machines For The Manufacture Of Textile Fabrics written by Bennet Woodcroft and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with categories.
Tivaevae
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Author : Lynnsay Rongokea
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Tivaevae written by Lynnsay Rongokea and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Cook Islands categories.
"In this beautiful book, Cook Island women talk about their tivaevae - how tivaevae are sewn, the ideas that go into each design, and the tivavae's future ..."--Back cover.