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Woodstocker Books
English Embroideries--16th&17th C. Description: These textiles provide both documentation on the development of needlework and serve as a social history. Included are pictorial panels, a box, samplers, costume items and fanciful novelty pieces from the Ashmolean Museum`s fine embroidery collection.... Read More about the "English Embroideries--16th&17th C." on the The Nile Book Store Website

Kodansha International
Memory On Cloth Description: A sequel to the best-selling Shibori, this text provides a modern perspective on shaped-resist dyeing techniques in textile design. Japan`s top fashion designers are examined, including Yohji Yamamoto and Issey Miyake and a 96-page section features the work of 24 international artists.... Read More about the "Memory On Cloth" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Kodansha International
Quilt Artistry Description: Quilt Artistry will transform the way that readers think about quilts. Author Yoshiko Jinzenji began quilting after she came upon quilts made by Canada`s Mennonite people and was deeply moved by their resonant, sacred quality. The richly minimalist quilts she makes today are as powerful as the works that originally inspired her. Quilt Artistry presents her unforgettable quilt creations in 100 color photos and in 300 black-and-white photos and diagrams. Detailed patterns and instructions are included for all projects shown. In addition to full-size quilts, Jinzenji demonstrates how to make quilted pillows, clutch purses, necklaces, decorative objects, table mats, tiny miniature quilt mandalas, even a hammock. There are a total of 90 projects, for everyone from beginners to the most advanced quilters. Jinzenji is also a superb natural dyer and often makes quilts from fabric or fiber she colors herself, including very subtle and rich bamboo-dyed white silk. In other quilts she uses antique fabric collected from around the world, and in still others vibrant tropical natural dyes or innovative synthetics such as black metallic cloth created by well-known textile designer Jun`ichi Arai. No matter what the material, her quilts all have a remarkable quiet power. They resonate with a spiritual quality like that of classic North American quilts, but one that is rooted in an Asian, even Buddhist sensibility. Jinzenji has always wanted to give something back to the Western quilting tradition that first motivated her own work, and with this book she is wonderfully successful. Quiltmakers and all others with an interest in textiles or design will find Quilt Artistry as inspirational as it is practical.... Read More about the "Quilt Artistry" on the The Nile Book Store Website

Kodansha International
Shibori Description: Potential for creating designs in textiles can be seen even in the physical properties of cloth. The simple fact that cloth tightly compressed into wrinkles or folds resists the penetration of dye is an opportunity an opportunity to let the pliancy of textiles speak in making designs and patterns. People around the world have recognized this opportunity, producing resist designs in textiles by shaping and then securing cloth in various ways before dyeing. Yet in no other country has the creative potential of this basic principle been understood and applied as it has in Japan. Here, in fact, it has been expanded into a whole family of traditional resist techniques, involving first shaping the cloth by plucking, pinching, twisting, stitching, folding, pleating, and wrapping it, and then securing the shapes thus made by binding, looping, knotting, clamping, and the like. This entire family of techniques is called shibori. Designs created with shibori processes all share a softness of outline and spontaneity of effect. Spontaneity is shibori`s special magic, made possible by exploiting the beauty of the fortuitous things that happen when dye enters shaped cloth. Usually it is in response to the fact that a craft is being lost that the need for preserving and documenting it arises. The motivation behind this book is no exception, but the authors have gone far beyond simple documentation. Extensive research and experimentation have led to the revival here of shibori techniques that were once well known but have now been largely forgotten in Japan. In addition to more conventional techniques, the work of contemporary fiber artists in Japan and abroad in shibori textile art and wearable art is presented, to suggest the extent of the creative innovation possible. The 104 color and 298 black-and-white plates include a photographic Gallery of Shibori Examples, based on Japan`s largest collection of traditional shibori fabrics. Included also are a detailed guide to basic natura... Read More about the "Shibori" on the The Nile Book Store Website

PHILIP WILSON PUBLISHERS
Textiles From Burma Description: Travellers to Burma over the centuries have recorded the sumptuous textiles produced and worn in great variety by the different peoples living there. This text presents the richness of these textiles, illustrated using examples from the James Henry Green collection at Brighton Museum.... Read More about the "Textiles From Burma" on the The Nile Book Store Website

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