Textile manipulation hits a whole new level in this fabulous book. Remembering the title keyword – transparency – techniques featured cover the traditional, such as open, delicate felting and shadow work on sheer fabric, to the wild, such as the heat manipulation of plastics and the use of fibre optics.
Excitement pervades every page! Use Perspex, cellophane, acetate film, silk, jute, sisal along with plastic netting, Lutrador, drafting film, wire, metal mesh and so much more. Some tools will be required along with the standard textile requirements. They include a glue gun, wet-and-dry sandpaper, a heat gun, soldering iron, and cordless drill, amongst others.
The focus is to create translucency. Learn how to treat paper and fabric with wax and oils; how to use bonding agents, solubles and non solubles; how to apply fibre, thread and stitch.
The chapter on using transparent materials is amazing; a handbag is featured that is right up there in the must have list. A laminator appears to have a lot more uses than I knew it to have, and I would never have dreamed of embedding my artwork or best lace inside a resin block!
The inspiration of the text is superb, the photos tremendous, and the joy of this is that the whole collection seems ‘do-able’. Read this and you really will want to let your inner artist out! Hardcover, 128pp. Julia
Excitement pervades every page! Use Perspex, cellophane, acetate film, silk, jute, sisal along with plastic netting, Lutrador, drafting film, wire, metal mesh and so much more. Some tools will be required along with the standard textile requirements. They include a glue gun, wet-and-dry sandpaper, a heat gun, soldering iron, and cordless drill, amongst others.
The focus is to create translucency. Learn how to treat paper and fabric with wax and oils; how to use bonding agents, solubles and non solubles; how to apply fibre, thread and stitch.
The chapter on using transparent materials is amazing; a handbag is featured that is right up there in the must have list. A laminator appears to have a lot more uses than I knew it to have, and I would never have dreamed of embedding my artwork or best lace inside a resin block!
The inspiration of the text is superb, the photos tremendous, and the joy of this is that the whole collection seems ‘do-able’. Read this and you really will want to let your inner artist out! Hardcover, 128pp. Julia
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