Wild Yarn
creating hand-spun yarn from ethical fibres
$44.01
- Hardcover
128 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2024
Summary
Wild Yarn: Spin and Blend Artisan Yarns for Textile Art
A practical and inspirational guide to choosing, blending, and spinning richly textured artisan yarn for weaving, knitting, and other textile art applications.
Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist who creates richly textured, highly tactile woven textile works from yarn that she spins and blends herself. In this elegantly designed book Imogen reveals the secrets of her practice. In evocative, engagingly…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781849949019 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1849949018 |
| Author: | Imogen Bright Moon |
| Publisher: | Batsford |
| Imprint: | Batsford |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 276mm x 216mm x 16mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘This book is ideal for weavers, textile artists and anyone seduced by the joys of yarn.’
– Craft Focus’[A] fascinating approach to hand spinning’
– The KnitterAbout The Author
Imogen Bright Moon
Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist. She creates large textile-based installations, using tapestry weaving and cloth weaving techniques, featuring painterly hand-blended-and-spun yarns. Her practice is founded in material processes, material ethics and heritage craft processes. Imogen is also a researcher, writer and textile-crafts historian. In 2022 she took part in the Gypsy Maker 5 project with the Romani Cultural & Arts Company / Arts Council Wales. She is represented by The New Craftsmen and exhibited at Collect at Somerset House in 2023. She is based in Brighton.
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