The Surface Designer's Handbook
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.86 (859 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 193149990X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"The definitive guide to applying color to fabric using dye materials, paints, printing and resist techniques." - MonstersandCritics"Beautiful professional photographs of dyed fabrics and art pieces are spread throughout the book." - Paula Burch's All About Hand Dyeing"Brackmann's professional and well-designed end results don't look like a technique-exploring craft project It will inspire you to immediately take up some form of surface design." - The Shuttle Scuttle"A visual as well as intellectual feast." - Textile Fibre Forum"One of the best books we've seen on the topic of altering fabrics through dyeing, printing, and painting." - Quilting Arts Magazine"It will teach you to use the right tools and techniques to add your own designs to silk, cotton, wool, and more." - Quilter's Newsletter Magazine"Detailed instruction in the many techniques of dyeing and embellishing clothprofusely illustrated with vivid process shots." - American Craft"Looking for nonstop inspiration? Interweave Press' The Surface Designer's Handbook should be the first stop on your journey." - Quilter's World
Ten appendices include a worksheet for recording chemicals, procedures, and costs for all projects; a guide to washing fabric; descriptions of stock solutions, thickeners, and steaming; a metric conversion table; and a guide to water temperatures.. An overview of dyeing starts with fibers and fabrics and discusses all aspects of the dyes favored by textile studios--fiber reactive, acid, vat, and disperse--before explaining discharging, screen printing, monoprinting, stamping, stenciling, resist dyeing, devore, and painting. Would-be fabric artists are advised along the way to identify a personal approach to dyeing--free spirit? rule-follower?--and color photographs of work by today's top fiber artists elucidate prevailing styles. Recipes and techniques are accompanied by step-by-step instructions with photographs, and a concealed spiral binding allows the book to lie flat. Beginning with studio practices and safety rules, this information-packed handbook is appropriate for both newcomers and experienced dyers but assumes that readers have a serious interest in textile design
"A Reference that Really Works" according to Bren Ahearn. I have learned so much from this book. Holly Brackmann explains not only the how-to aspect of surface design in incredible detail & easy-to-follow steps, but also the how-it-works aspect of the processes. She begins her book with an all-important chapter on safety and then goes on to explain dyes, fibers & fabrics, followed by a chapter on color. Then she gets into explaining not only dyes (e.g., fiber-reactive, acid, vat, and disperse), but also discharging, screen printing, monoprinting, stamping, stenciling, resists, devore, textile painting, & embel. M.Clifford said Wonderful book!. Holly Brackmann's new book The Surface Designer's Handbook is long over-due and I have ordered it as the textbook for all my fibers classes. As soon as it arrived my students all wanted their own personal copy so several of them purchased it outright just on sight alone. The spiral binding is excellent and the extent of the techniques covered is wonderful. I teach both beginners and advanced fibers students and this book has everything we need as a textbook.I use it myself for my own work and find it very helpful, well organized and thorough. The inform. Instruction and inspiration all in one volume Holly Brackmann's beautifully produced new book, The Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, and Creating Resists on Fabric, is both a "how to" and a "why." Drawing on her many years' experience as a fiber artist and a college-level textile arts instructor, Brackmann covers the topics promised in the title of her book--and then some--in an encyclopedic manner. Chapters on the different topics begin with readable summaries of the historical and technological development of the process. Clear and detailed recipes and instructions for each process e