Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves
$94.21
- Hardcover
192 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2012
Summary
Weaving Magic: Create Self-Shaping Textiles with High-Twist Yarns
Weaving textiles that shape themselves sounds like a contradiction, but this book reveals how to achieve precisely that. Discover the art of weaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials to craft fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties.
These fabrics, flat on the loom, undergo a transformation when washed. Water releases the energy of the yarns, causing the fabrics to “organize themselves…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847973191 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847973191 |
| Author: | Ann Richards |
| Publisher: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | The Crowood Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 868g |
| Dimensions: | 260mm x 215mm x 20mm |
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About The Author
Ann Richards
Ann Richards trained and worked as a biologist, before studying woven textiles at West Surrey College of Art & Design, where she later worked as a lecturer. Her background in biology has strongly influenced her textile work, which often draws on form and function in nature. Her work has been exhibited widely, both in the UK and abroad. In 1989 she won First Prize (MITI Award) at the 4th International Textile Design Contest in Tokyo. Over the past twenty years she has lectured and given workshops in the UK and elsewhere, including Europe, Canada, and the USA.
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