Fabulous Fabric Art With Lutradur®

Fabulous Fabric Art With Lutradur®
Author: Lesley Riley
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 157120900X

Get Creative with this Fabulous Cross Between Paper and Fabric. Discover all the wonderful things you can do with Lutradur®-the exciting new fabric that looks, feels, and folds like translucent paper, but doesn't tear or fray. Add luminous color and exotic lacy effects to art quilts, fabric or altered books, mixed media art. Try 27 fun techniques that produce fascinating Lutradur effects. Looking to try something that's fresh, fun, and creative? Wait till you get your hands on Lutradur, the new art material that combines the best qualities of fabric and paper. Lutradur is ready for almost anything-cutting, burning, stamping, painting, dyeing, and sewing are just the beginning! 2009 Forward Book of The Year Award finalist (Crafts/Hobbies Category)

Lutradur and the New Fibers

Lutradur and the New Fibers
Author: Wendy Cotterill
Publisher: Interweave
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781596683341

Lutradur and the New Fibers is the essential guide for mixed-media and fiber artists who are looking to get started with spunbonded textiles. Spunbonded textiles are man-made fabrics that are strong and flexible but can also be soft and warm to the touch, making them ideal for textile art. They can be washed, dyed, painted, printed, stitched, burned, fused, foiled, stenciled, and slashed with ease. Lutradur and the New Fibers explores different types of spunbonded textiles--materials such as Lutradur, Evolon, heat-distressable tissue, Tyvek, and Kuninteir. Features include how to color with painting, printing, and dyeing, plus heating, distressing, fusing, and soldering techniques perfect for these spunbonded textiles. Additional techniques include image transfer, foiling, and stamping.

Fabric Memory Books

Fabric Memory Books
Author: Lesley Riley
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2008-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781600594083

Combine your love of crafting, fabric, and reading to create unique volumes for preserving your memories. The 24 projects feature a variety of binding methods as well as inventive techniques like transferring photos onto textiles.

Hot Textiles

Hot Textiles
Author: Kim Thittichai
Publisher: Batsford Books
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2023-08-03
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1849945616

An inspirational and practical guide to the potential of heat tools for textile artists. Soldering irons, heat guns and household irons can add texture and variety to textile work – whether it's hand embroidery, machine embroidery, quilting or felting. Stunning work can be produced with a variety of materials: hot and cold foiling; painted and plain Bondaweb (fusible webbing) on wood, paper, fabric and pelmet Vilene; making beads from synthetic fabrics, Tyvek and Kunin felt; melting and distorting plastic bags and cellophane; working in three dimensions; and embossing powders. With step-by-step instructions, full health and safety advice and stunning photography, this is an important book for all textile artists. Following on the bestselling Fusing Fabric and Surfaces for Stitch, it demonstrates the latest techniques wanted by all those involved in textiles. Back in paperback for 2018.

Wen Redmond's Digital Fiber Art

Wen Redmond's Digital Fiber Art
Author: Wen Redmond
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 161745270X

Fine art meets fabric! Compose, create, and print innovative art quilts starting from your own digital photographs—even those from your phone! Well-known fiber artist Wen Redmond starts with the tools and equipment you'll need—any image editing software and a standard inkjet printer—and teaches you to alter images, print them on a variety of fibers, and accentuate them with stitching. With a sense of adventure, even a beginner can apply these techniques to create new and innovative works of art. - Transform your photographs into matchless works of art with mixed-media techniques and quilting - Explore inkjet printing on almost anything! Design with fabric, paper, and other substrates - Get photo editing, layering, and printing tips from respected fiber artist and teacher Wen Redmond - Learn new approaches to digital printing—perfect for quilters, fabric and paper artists, digital artists, mixed-media artists, photographers, art teachers, and more

Fabulous Facades

Fabulous Facades
Author: G. Loughman
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781617453441

"Tell the story of a favorite place--Gloria shows you how to create buildings, boats, cars, doorways and more. Quilters of all levels will love the comprehensive attention to fabric, color, and elements of design. Practice a unique construction method for graphic quilts that resemble woodblock prints."--Back cover.

Creative Image Transfer—Any Artist, Any Style, Any Surface

Creative Image Transfer—Any Artist, Any Style, Any Surface
Author: Lesley Riley
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607058324

Join the creator of Lesley Riley’s TAP Transfer Artist Paper and a cadre of talented designers, including several frequent contributors to Cloth Paper Scissors magazine, to explore exciting new ideas to create with TAP. With a sheet of TAP and a hot iron, you can transfer a permanent image onto almost any solid surface. Try 16 fun, new projects ranging from jewelry to home accessories and mixed-media arts. Learn to transfer images onto new surfaces such as faux bone, as well as fabric, paper, wood, metal, and glass; use with encaustic. Use the many techniques as a jumping-off point for creating your own TAP magic.

Secrets of Digital Quilting-From Camera to Quilt

Secrets of Digital Quilting-From Camera to Quilt
Author: Lura Schwarz Smith
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2010-11-05
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 160705129X

Create Quilts Using Your Own, One-of-a-Kind Printed Fabric. Expand the creative possibilities of your quilting with richly colored fabric made from your own photos-it's easy! Learn the secrets of getting the best results from your digital camera, inkjet printer, scanner, photo editing software, and printable fabric sheets. Use a simple organizing system to make your images easy to work with. Enhance your printed fabrics with paints, inks, dye sticks, and crayons (specific product recommendations included). Create riveting quilts by using positive and negative space, balance, line, focal points, and other design principles. Inexpensive Photoshop Elements is the only computer program you need. Try out all 25 techniques with 8 artistic projects, then use the techniques in your own quilts.

Fabric Art Workshop

Fabric Art Workshop
Author: Susan Stein
Publisher: Creative Publishing international
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1616733454

A comprehensive source of all the newest and most popular fiber art techniques! This technique-driven book explores a wide range of new possibilities and materials available to fabric and journal artists. Each unique technique is presented with an inspirational, full-page photo of a fabric journal page. How-to steps with photos explore all the possible results from applying the technique. The reader can create journal pages and/or quilt blocks, which can be sewn together to make one large journal quilt, matted and framed individually, displayed on a meditation screen, or used as book pages sewn into a traditional journal format. 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.