Sew Tales: Private locations, areas and traces in textile artwork

The occasions of your life, from native walks to unique journeys, can present countless inspiration for textile artwork. This inspiring e book exhibits you how one can document your experiences, utilizing sketchbooks, journals and pictures, to create private narratives that may type a place to begin for extra completed stitched-textile items.

Acclaimed textile artist and instructor Cas Holmes, whose work is commonly impressed by her life and the journeys she makes, helps you discover inspiration by your personal life and explains how one can document what you see in sketchbooks and journals, which might typically turn into stunning objects in themselves. She explains how you should utilize pictures, each as documentation and as inspiration, and generally incorporate it into the work itself, together with discovered objects and ephemera.

All through the e book are helpful methods that may be harnessed so as to add further curiosity to your work, resembling strategies for making layered collages, how one can ‘sketch’ with sew, and recommendation on design and color. If you wish to create stunning, distinctive work impressed by your life and travels, that is the right e book for you.