Felt to Stitch: Publisher's Release
Creative felting for textile artists
071349008X | Hardback | £18.99 | October 2006 (Batsford)
How the Publisher Described this Book.
- Create, embellish and manipulate felt into dramatic three-dimensional pieces.
- Innovative felting techniques to enhance your textile art and take your felt to another dimension.
- Written by the former Chair of the International Feltmakers’ Association.
If you are ready for a new challenge, let Felt to Stitch inspire you to be creative and add individuality to your work. Demonstrating with illustrated sample projects, acclaimed feltmaker Sheila Smith shows you how to make your own felt, and select and dye your own colours into stunning pieces. For both embroiderers and quilters, extend your knowledge of this method by practicing with techniques such as shibori with felt, nuno felt, cobweb felt and needle-punched felt. With a glossary of feltmaking terms included to help you take feltmaking to another level, it is time to get together your old towels, bubble wrap plastic, your waterproof apron, and rubber gloves and start felting!
The author
Sheila Smith is an experienced feltmaker who teaches in the UK and around the world. She writes regularly for textile and embroidery magazines, including World of Embroidery, Sewing World and Workbox.
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