Textile Travels, 9781849945646
Hardcover
Stitch your journeys: Discover textile art inspired by travel and culture.

Textile Travels

$36.32

  • Hardcover

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    29 September 2020

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Summary

Textile Travels: Stitching Memories, Mapping Inspiration

An evocative exploration of how travel - local and far away - can inform, inspire and enhance textile art.

Travel has always featured heavily in textile art, from artists’ ‘travelling sketchbooks’ to large-scale installations mapping coastal erosion or the effects of climate change. In this book, renowned textile artist Anne Kelly shows how to capture your travels, past and present, in stitch, with practical techniques…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781849945646
ISBN-10:1849945640
Author:Anne Kelly
Publisher:Batsford
Imprint:Batsford
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:29 September 2020
Weight:784g
Dimensions:20mm x 283mm x 224mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

‘This fascinating book will inspire all textile artists, embroiderers and makers to use past travels to influence their work.’ – Selvedge

A fascinating exploration of travel in textile art, with practical techniques and inspiring images’Craft Focus’Gorgeous … Packed with rich imagery, detailed instruction and inspiration galore.‘Textile Artist’Anne Kelly has captured her experiences with travel beautifully in this new title’Sew’This book will inspire all makers’Simply Sewing’This fascinating book will inspire all textile artists, embroiderers and makers to use past travels to influence their work.‘Selvedge‘A delightful publication which will install a desire to look beyond, and to explore the expanse of what the world presents as a starting point for any creative endeavour, particularly involving textiles’Art Quilt Quarterly‘Filled with many clever and interesting ideas … Useful for spurring ideas for projects I never would have thought about otherwise’Spin Off (US)Terry Mattison

About The Author

Anne Kelly

Anne Kelly is a textile artist and tutor. She trained in Canada and the UK and now teaches and speaks to guilds and groups. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, including private collections in the UK and abroad, the Vatican Collection in Rome and at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. She was recently artist-in-residence at Sussex Prairies Garden in West Sussex and exhibited at the international World of Threads Festival and the Prague Patchwork Meeting. She is the co-author of Connected Cloth.

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