Weaving Iridescence

Author : Bobbie Irwin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811765806
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weaving Iridescence written by Bobbie Irwin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iridescent fabric shimmers and glows, changing colors depending on how the light hits it. Different colors appear in the folds and pleats, adding surprising layers of color to fabric. To the uninformed it appears magical and difficult, but the truth is that weaving iridescent fabric is accessible to any handweaver who knows the tricks. Bobbie Irwin has been teaching the techniques for weaving iridescence in person and through articles for more than ten years. In this book, she delivers her most comprehensive course yet, covering the details from how to evaluate and choose yarn to achieve your desired effect to the ways weave structure affects iridescence to the best uses for your iridescent fabric. Hands-on project instructions will have you exploring what you've learned right away. If you have been looking to add some shimmer to your weaving, this is the only book you will ever need!

Author : Marilyn Murphy
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1620333864
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woven to Wear written by Marilyn Murphy and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtful designs. Simple shapes. Create unique fabric and garments you'll want to wear again and again. In this garment-weaver's handbook, author Marilyn Murphy offers guidance for weaving scarves, wraps, and more. She also provides advice for designing garments, cutting and sewing fabric, adding edgings and closures, and combining woven fabrics with other techniques. In addition, nine contributing designers share their working philosophies. Garment designs in Woven to Wear are influenced by a global melting pot of traditional folkloric costume and ethnic fabric, in which silhouettes are roomy, layered, and flowing, and the cloth takes center stage.

Author : Alice Schlein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Network Drafting written by Alice Schlein and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Victoria Finlay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639361642
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fabric written by Victoria Finlay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama - where in the 1930s, deprived of almost everything they owned, a community of women turned quilting into an art form. She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents —and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. Fabric is not just a material history of our world, but Finlay's own journey through grief and recovery.

Author : Jennifer Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1620331837
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Weaver's Studio: Doubleweave written by Jennifer Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doubleweave is the art of weaving two layers of cloth at the same time, one above the other on the loom, creating beautiful cloth that is reversible yet unique on each side. Using pick-up techniques and clever color mixing, patterns emerge that are different but complementary on each side. The Weaver's Studio: Doubleweave begins with a brief history of doubleweave and how it has evolved into the contemporary weaving pieces seen today. Next, you will learn all the basics of doubleweave techniques, as well as tips and tricks of setting up the warp, and a variety of doubleweave specialty techniques all shown through detailed process photography and a wealth of swatches demonstrating different effects. Specialty techniques are shown for 4-shaft and 8-shaft looms. The weaving effects covered include lace, tubular weave, pick-up, color mixing, and more. And since doubleweave showcases color and pattern in unique ways, you will learn how to use these to great effect in your cloth designs. Throughout the book, you will find a wealth of inspiration with many examples of finished cloth and projects, from wall hangings and table runners to scarves and pillows.

Author : Bobbie Irwin
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781648370977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twined Rag Rugs written by Bobbie Irwin and published by Echo Point Books & Media, LLC. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable resource for crafters of all ages and experience levels teaches all the skills you need to make inexpensive, sturdy, and beautiful twined rag rugs that will be destined to become treasured heirlooms.

Author : Susan Kesler-Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0811767922
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Weave Simply written by Susan Kesler-Simpson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Add Shadow Weave to your repertoire with Susan Kesler-Simpson's easy-to-follow instructions. Susan's approach is to first break down the structure of Shadow Weave so that any level weaver can understand how alternating light and dark threads in both warp and weft can present a dominant motif outlined with an identical shadow. She walks you through how the structure builds and weaves, and once you comprehend how the weave structure works, you will be able to weave any of the 25 project patterns in the book. You will also have the knowledge to transform other drafts to Shadow Weave, or to design your own Shadow Weave pattern.

Author : Bobbie Irwin
Publisher : Krause Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780896897366
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twist and Twine written by Bobbie Irwin and published by Krause Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From fabric strips to completed rugs - it's all in the twist! Traditional crafting and green crafting come together with impressive results in Twist & Twine. Author Bobbie Irwin guides you through the age-old art of rug twining to create beautiful, durable objects for your home, all with strips of new or recycled fabric. You'll begin with a twining sampler to learn the basic methods you'll need to make rugs, baskets, placemats, even a photo album. Clearly presented techniques and project instructions include color diagrams and photos. Learn to make your own twining frames, and discover nonframe projects that use boxes, cardboard tubes and bowls as forms for twining. In Twist & Twine you'll get: an illustrated guide to twining methods detailed instructions for 7 rugs and 11 home decor items created with a variety of techniques and looms thorough discussions of fabric - new or recycled - to use for warps and wefts a review of twining equipment, including instructions for constructing looms and frames lists of twining references and resources

Author : Nicola Tedman
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1449419704
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beaded Bugs written by Nicola Tedman and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Build your beading skills with this step-by-step guide to capturing the delightful shapes and vibrant colors of beautiful bugs. Beaded Bugs features thirty fun, easy, and creative projects designed to help beginners learn new beading skills. Based on just six basic prototypes, the projects are graded by difficulty level, so you can start with a quick and simple butterfly before moving on to more complex bees and beetles. Each project includes full-color photos, illustrations, and step-by-step pattern instructions. The finished bugs can be turned into beautiful jewelry or adornments for key rings, cell phones, and more. The cute critters in Beaded Bugs are based on real species, and the book also includes a few fun facts on each bug to read as you bead. Beaded Bugs includes: * A tiny scarab beetle * A little ladybug * Beautifully detailed bees with intricately veined wings and striped bodies * Intricate and colorful butterflies, such as the peacock swallowtail * 3-D caterpillars and cocoons *And more!

Author : Tatsuya Hongu
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1845690796
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Millennium Fibers written by Tatsuya Hongu and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-05-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking forward to the future it is clear that today’s narrow concept of fiber as a basic element for textiles, ropes and nets will become an outmoded notion. The emphasis will instead shift to new and exciting developments in fiber technology and their applications, exploring such fields as biomimetics, nanotechnology and biodegradability. New millennium fibers describes and identifies the scope of high-tech fibers. The present status and prospects of the fiber/textile technology are discussed and the high performance fibers are reviewed from origin to future applications, including carbon fiber.The themes of the book are summarised with a discussion on health care and the environment. As the 21st century progresses fibers will enter into more novel and unexpected applications. We are approaching the age of the wearable computer and organic electroluminescence wearable displays. New potential is open in the fields of car and aerospace industry, civil engineering, separation membranes using hollow fibers for artificial organs, biodegradable fiber for ecological conservation and fibers with biological functions. New millennium fibers explores the exciting roles that fibers will play in the future and will be an essential book for all of those in the textile and fashion industry involved in fiber development or use. Keep up to date with the advances in fiber science Explores new and exciting developments in fiber technology Includes applications of new millennium fibers