The Art Of Textile Design Exploring Patterns Techniques And Creativity
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| Author | : Joshua Butler |
| Publisher | : Daniel O Brien |
| Total Pages | : 41 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Design |
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Step into the vibrant world of textile design with "The Art of Textile Design: Exploring Patterns, Techniques, and Creativity." This comprehensive guide takes you on an immersive journey through the multifaceted aspects of textile design, from its rich history to cutting-edge innovations. Delve into the essential elements of textile design, including fabric materials, design principles, and color theory. Explore a wide range of traditional and contemporary techniques, from weaving and knitting to printing and dyeing. Discover how fabric manipulation and sustainable design practices shape the industry. "The Art of Textile Design" is a visual feast, showcasing stunning examples of textile art and inspiring applications in fashion, interiors, and beyond. It provides invaluable insights into the design process, from conceptualization to trend forecasting. Whether you're a seasoned designer, an aspiring artist, or simply curious about the world of textiles, this book is your indispensable guide. Gain a deep understanding of the principles, techniques, and creativity that drive this dynamic field, and unlock your own potential as a textile designer.
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 9781610595780 |
The ultimate guide to manipulating, coloring, and embellishing fabrics. Discover nearly 50 fabulous techniques for creating one-of-a-kind designer fabrics using your imagination as the guide.
| Author | : Kimberly Kight |
| Publisher | : C&T Publishing Inc |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2011-11-16 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1607056186 |
A comprehensive, step-by-step resource for fabric design and printing—including tips from top designers. If you’ve ever dreamed of showing your designs on fabric, textile aficionado Kim Kight, of popular blog True Up, is here to teach you how. Comprehensive and refreshingly straightforward, this impressive volume features two main parts. First, the Design and Color section explains the basics with step-by-step tutorials on creating repeating patterns both by hand and on the computer. Next, the Printing section guides you through transferring those designs on fabric—whether it's block printing, screen printing, digital printing or licensing to a fabric company—and how to determine the best method for you. Includes extensive photos and illustrations
| Author | : Alex Russell |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 212 |
| Release | : 2011-06-01 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 2940411476 |
This book provides an introduction to the creative skills, knowledge and processes required in order to produce a professional, creative and commercially aware portfolio of printed textiles.
| Author | : John Gillow |
| Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2003-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0811841669 |
Traces a boy's journey across India as he searches for a sacred buffalo bell stolen from his tribe.
| Author | : Jean Draper |
| Publisher | : Batsford Books |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2018-10-26 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1849945152 |
The hugely accomplished textile artist Jean Draper gives an invaluable guide to designing and working with pattern in textile art. Jean goes back to basics with simple dots and lines, demonstrating how even basic squares, circles and triangles can have a stunning impact in stitch and textiles. She provides practical and simple instructions for developing and experimenting with pattern, using grids, symmetry, rotation and repeats. Jean draws inspiration from patterns around the world, from West African Kente Cloth to the Gee’s Bend quilts of Alabama. There are instructions on creating bands and borders, strip patchwork and strip piecing, plus an extended study of Banjara stitched textiles. Natural patterns from plants and flowers also offer exciting opportunities for stitch, and Jean explores important design emblems such a the Tree of Life alongside other stitched flower forms. Finally, the ornamentation of the body provides many unique and striking ways to interpret the human form in stitch. Pattern is everywhere and can be used to stunning effect, taking your textile art to the next level. This fascinating and exciting guide brings together inspiration, design methods and stitching techniques to help you develop truly great textile art.
| Author | : Jan Shenton |
| Publisher | : Laurence King Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2014-04-28 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 1780675550 |
Woven Textile Design offers a comprehensive introduction to weaving for all those wishing to design and produce a wide range of fabrics from scratch. Starting with the basics of woven textile design, the book looks at how to draw up and interpret records and notation, before explaining how different types of cloth are constructed. From the most basic of plain weaves, through twill weaves, textured weaves such as seersucker, crepe and corded cloths to more complicated designs created with extra threads woven in, a wide range of patterns are covered. Illustrated throughout with diagrams, weaving plans and beautiful examples from contemporary designers, the book also includes tips on using different yarns and colours to create stunning and unique designs. Offering clear, practical advice, this book will show you how to interpret your initial concepts and develop your ideas on the loom.
| Author | : Jan Dowson |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2021-02-09 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1782217509 |
Transform your ideas on creative fabric embellishment for textile art that's full meaning and astounding texture, in this inspiring book by award-winning textile art tutor and artist Jan Dowson. Whether it's a landscape, a garden, an animal or a powerful memory of a place or object, Jan shows you how she develops them all into beautifully stitched representations that exude awe-inspiring detail, colour and expression. Discover Jan's unique sketchbook process, where she stores and collects natural items, and explores different patterns, textures, media and markings to cultivate her final design. See her simple yet effective methods for transforming her fabric for stitching, including dyeing, embellishing and stamping. Then, watch her transform an unassuming square of fabric into a contemporary piece of art brimming with colour, texture and extraordinary stitched markings - all made through the combination of traditional sewing techniques and other media. Following a fascinating, illustrated step-by step chapter on Jan's key techniques, join her as she takes you through the stages of three types of work for which she is most renowned - the stitched landscape, the memory cloth and the bird sculpture. Each project also includes a break down of the materials, tools and techniques used, so that can understand as well as see the development of her astounding, mixed-media creations. Throughout the book, a gallery of Jan's work complements her techniques and projects, showing how to truly push the limits on your stitcheries. These are stunning pieces that will open your eyes and turn your own creative concepts into original, personal work.
| Author | : Florence Spurling |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2021-08-05 |
| Genre | : Design |
| ISBN | : 1529423171 |
Designing Knitted Textiles guides readers through the fundamental skills of machine knitting, while encouraging them to be creative and experimental. It takes a contemporary approach, exploring the countless possibilities of machine-knitted textiles within multiple fashion contexts. Part 1 offers a practical introduction to the subject, with step-by-steps and detailed information on tools, stitch types, fibres and techniques. Part 2 covers colour, pattern, texture, structure and embellishment, highlighting a range of designs from traditional styles such as Fair Isle to the most intricate lace or unusual 3D effects. Finally, Part 3 delves into the construction elements needed to create garments and accessories. Praise for Designing Knitted Textiles from academic reviewers: 'Perfect for beginners' knitwear course, to get a rounded understanding of the machine and capabilities'. - GEMMA MARSH, SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN 'It covers a wide range of single bed machine knitting techniques and includes inspirational images of knitted samples and garments. The book features technical information explaining how to knit many of the stitches, with clear diagrams and useful tips and hints. I will be recommending this book to all levels, as it has something to offer even the more experienced final year student'. DR VIKKI HAFFENDEN - UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON 'This is a very clear a concise approach to machine knitting and design'. JOSEPH PESCATORE - NASSAU COMMUNITY COLLEGE 'The book is beautifully written with a lot of excellent illustrations. The pictures of knitted designs are inspiring and relevant to contemporary fashion. An overall excellent book'. NICOLAS CHAMPROUX - HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE 'This book has great illustrations and clear, easy-to-read text. There is a wide breadth of knowledge and a variety of techniques represented, and the tips are succinct and helpful. Equally appreciated are the many sources of knitwear inspiration'. MEGHAN KELLY - THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
| Author | : Frederick L Chipkin |
| Publisher | : Origin inc |
| Total Pages | : 120 |
| Release | : 2014-04-20 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0972731776 |
Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design (isbn# 9780972731775) was created as a textile design tutorial. In our book you will learn step by step techniques for creating color combinations, color reduction, repeats, tonal (watercolor) designs and simple woven effects for textiles. using Adobe Photoshop. With the book we also include a CD with Color charts and practice images. The book Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design is a collection of lessons that progress from simple everyday techniques and settings to more advanced techniques that will enable the designer to tackle the most challenging design work. Everything is explained in a simple uniform manner so that nothing is overwhelming to the textile designer just learning computer aided design and so that the more experienced designer can grasp key concepts more quickly. Origin inc. is a textile design studio that uses Adobe Photoshopâ for its designing exclusively. As with any design software there are many ways to achieve the desired end effects. Our book "Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design" provides instructions on many tried and true textile design techniques that the Origin inc. design studio uses every day. Photoshop for Textile Design is self published by Origin inc. It's 219 pages of tutorials and is spiral bound for ease of use. As equally important as the book itself is the CD that's included with the book. It contains practice images that correspond to the lessons in the book. These include weaves, textile images to color reduce, bodies & objects to photo drape textiles on and 36 pages of color charts so that you can match colors accurately. More then just a tutorial Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design is a complete learning system. Instructions are given for Adobe Photoshop CC (Creative Cloud) however this book will work well with Adobe Photoshop versions 7.0 through CS6.
