Mark-Making By the Seasons: Textile Artwork Inspiration and Strategies

Famend quilter and textile artist Helen Parrott explores the inventive potential of utilizing your native environment to create stunning textile artworks.

 

Drawing on the Sluggish Sew motion, Helen Parrott explains how mark-making—utilizing stitches to make marks on cloth as you develop your design—can be utilized meditatively by way of the 12 months to file variations in colour, vitality, and lightweight. She encourages you to attach your individual locality and its particular elements to create a private cycle of textile artwork that captures every thing from summer time’s sunny brightness to winter snow. Every seasonal part begins with an observational stroll, adopted by an exploratory paper, working samples, and accomplished artwork. Learn the way to be in tune together with your surroundings, from equinox to solstice, and file seasonal traits. Together with methods and initiatives, this inspirational ebook showcases completed works from Helen’s exhibitions, in addition to from the Bradford Textile Archive, to disclose a variety of inventive potentialities.