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Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters
* Full-page fabric journal block to introduce each technique * Step-by-step photos for exploring and executing the technique * Gallery showing ways to display and use the fabric journal blocks * Great value. Like two years of classes rolled into one book. * Beautiful "journal page" opens each of 28 technique chapters * All techniques are easily mastered by anyone. No complex dying involved. All products are readily available at craft, fabric, and quilt shops.

Hot Textiles: Inspiration and Techniques with Heat Tools

Stitch, Dissolve, Distort with Machine Embroidery

The Painted Quilt: Paint and Print Techniques for Color on Quilts
The only book on the market that deals with the application of color to the quilted surface--a technique that creates completely unique effects. Dyeing, fabric painting and print techniques are an important part of the increasingly popular City & Guilds textile courses. Painted Quilt demystifies the process of coloring cloth using a variety of techniques including fabric paints, pastels, dyes, bleaches and transfers. The book combines simple techniques to produce complex textile surfaces, and describes exactly how these effects are achieved with easy-to-understand step-by-step photographs and instructions. Many people have competent sewing skills but lack the confidence to create their own designs--this book will help them to explore their own creative potential to achieve effective and original designs.

Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity
Part quiltmaking workbook, part business guide, Art Quilt Workbook shows how to take quilting in a creative new direction through art--then sell the quilts at craft fairs and other venues. Lessons and homework teach the basics of good design with simple step-by-step exercises, then encourage the reader to add personal touches with fabric collage, thread painting, innovative piecing, and photo imagery. A bonus guide to exhibiting and selling quilts reveals how to join arts and crafts exhibits and how to market handmade quilts. Develop the inner artist (and the inner business tycoon) with Art Quilt Workbook!

Crafting a Legacy: Contemporary American Crafts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

M. Joan Lintault: Connecting Quilts, Art & Textiles
With her hand-dyed fabrics, layering techniques, and free-form outlines, Lintault pushes the envelope of quilt-making. This lavishly illustrated celebration of her art gives form to the deeply personal and elusive inner workings of the artist’s mind. Drawing inspiration from nature, painters, philosophers, and travels throughout the world, her quilts tell timeless tales that are a culmination of these vast experiences and influences. In addition to experiencing the amazing scope of her work, readers will gain insight into her creative process which blends formal artistic principles along with inspiration and intuition. A brief review of an array of technical processes—sketching, fabric dyeing, layering, sewing, and appliqué techniques—is also included to further illuminate the design process.

The Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric

Weaving: A Handbook of the Fiber Arts

The Artist's Way