Love Pattern and Colour

Love Pattern and Colour
Author: Charlotte Abrahams
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0711257485

The essential guide to choosing patterns for the home, Love Patternand Colour is packed full of colourful, inspiring ideas for using pattern with confidence.

Pattern and Palette Sourcebook

Pattern and Palette Sourcebook
Author: Anvil
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2005-07-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1616736321

DIVThis hardworking reference book is an invaluable tool for art directors, designers, and students working in the fashion, product, and graphic design fields, as well as anyone in the business of visual communication. The Pattern and Palette Sourcebook is a desktop library of colors and patterns that addresses the professional's real-world needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into six unique style sections, the book provides readers with 15 appropriate colors for each section, which are then incorporated into 25 different patterns shown in six or eight color variations each. This enables readers to see the dramatic effect colors have in design and helps them better understand how to use color effectively. The book also demonstrates ways of creating designs that are distinctly unique from one another yet hold together in a group. This book is a must have for designers of all disciplines and experience levels. /div

Color + Pattern

Color + Pattern
Author: Khristian A. Howell
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2015-07-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1627883606

Do you have a passion for patterns? The importance and prevalence of both color and pattern in the current design landscape is impossible to deny. Not only is pattern a headliner in the fashion category, but bold pattern is also taking center stage in home decor, paper goods, and accessories like no other time in recent history. It's time to jump onto the scene with Color + Pattern! Masterful pattern designer Khristian A. Howell will fill you with confidence and a fearless use of color and an interest in all things pattern, so you can create your own beautiful art that can be printed on fabrics, paper, and transfers. Fully illustrated with a large and varied range of pattern designs, Color + Pattern highlights leaders in the industry, showcasing how pattern design comes to life when it finds its way onto perfectly paired products. Aside from sharing loads of gorgeous work, Color + Pattern informs readers on the many different kinds of patterns and terminology, exploring found patterns, sharing processes of creating patterns, as well as showing ways to integrate pattern into many facets of real life with 50 exercises. After all color and pattern are meant to be fun, so design, color and repeat!

Paisley

Paisley
Author: Tina Skinner
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Total Pages: 116
Release: 1998
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

Paisley textile designs are organized into a sweeping visual survey including orderly foulard patterns, elaborate borders, experimental media, and ornate florals of printed and woven fabrics alike. More than 550 full-color photographs provide an invaluable optical reference of variations that span more than five decades, including French and Italian couture fabrics.

Knitters Yarn Palette

Knitters Yarn Palette
Author: Claire Montgomerie
Publisher: Reader's Digest
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-16
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780762109098

A visual celebration and source of inspiration for knitters eager to experiment with the newest colors and textures Today?s diverse knitters?some 50 million strong in North America?crave skeins of variety for stylish fashion pieces. Written by a rising young knitwear designer, Knitter?s Yarn Palette spotlights exciting possibilities?from fun eyelash yarns to sumptuous angora?and showcases more than 200 full-color photos of yarns in every color, texture, and fiber imaginable. Sample swatches clearly show the results that can be achieved. This unique book explains everything there is to know about weight, gauge, texture, and the suitability of mixing yarns using a wide range of 30 projects that revolve around 10 themes including: * Seashores?delicate shades of sky and sand?string, cotton, and linen yarns? ripple-effect techniques * Lazy Meadow?grassy green, poppy red, buttercup yellow?soft, silky, velvety yarns?ruffling and layering techniques * Tribal Adventure?earth tones?linen, wools, and felted yarns?felting techniques Knitters of all levels will gain confidence to experiment and select alternatives to the yarns specified in patterns. Experienced knitters will gain the inspiration to create their own unique designs from the stunning themes.

Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 3

Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 3
Author: Gillian Blease
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2008-12-31
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1616736593

Pattern and Palette Sourcebook 3 is a desktop library of colors and patterns that addresses the professional’s real-world needs in working with harmonies and contrasts. Divided into 6 style sections, the book provides readers with 15 appropriate colors for each section, which are incorporated into 25 different patterns in each section, shown in 6 or 8 color variations each. This enables readers to see the dramatic effect colors have in design, and helps them to better understand how to use color effectively. This essential handbook demonstrates ways of creating patterns that are distinctly unique, yet hold together in a group.

Living with Pattern

Living with Pattern
Author: Rebecca Atwood
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0553459457

A design book filled with beautiful photography and clear ideas for how to use pattern to decorate your home. If you focus on pattern, from texture and color to furniture and textiles, everything else will fall into place. Pattern is the strongest element in any room. In Living with Pattern, Rebecca Atwood demystifies how to use that element, a design concept that often confounds and confuses, demonstrating how to seamlessly mix and layer prints throughout a house. She covers pattern usage you probably already have, such as on your duvet cover or in the living room rug, and she also reveals the unexpected places you might not have thought to add it: bathroom tiles, an arrangement of book spines in a reading nook, or windowpane gridding in your entryway. This stunning book showcases distinct uses of pattern in homes all over the country to inspire you to realize that an injection of pattern can enliven any space, helping to make it uniquely yours.

The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking

The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking
Author: Lauren Stowell
Publisher: PAGE STREET PUB
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1624144535

"This comprehensive guide will walk you through how to make and wear your 18th century dream gown. [The authors] have endeavored to ... [bring] historically accurate dressmaking techniques into your sewing room. Learn how to make four of the most iconic 18th century silhouettes--the English Gown, Sacque Gown, Italian Gown and Round Gown--using the same hand sewing techniques done by historic dressmakers. From large hoops to full bums, wool petticoats to grand silk gowns, ruffled aprons to big feathered hats, this manual has project patterns and instructions for every level of 18th century sewing enthusiast"--Amazon.com.

Dressing Your Truth

Dressing Your Truth
Author: Carol Tuttle
Publisher: Live Your Truth Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Beauty, Personal
ISBN: 9780984402106

Discover your unique beauty profile-- the first step to dressing your truth and becoming your own beauty expert.

Lotta Jansdotter's Everyday Style

Lotta Jansdotter's Everyday Style
Author: Lotta Jansdotter
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781617691744

Photographed over the course of a year in New York, Tennessee, India, and Sweden and organised by season, Jansdotter shares her sources of inspiration and how she and her friends mix and match her key pieces while working, playing, resting, and travelling.