Surface Design for Fabric

This modern studio resource clearly guides readers in the creation of beautiful, innovative, and professional surfacedesigns.

* Sewing World *Irwin has packed this guide with step-by-step instructions and photography, illustrations, material lists, designer profiles and student projects to ensure that every base is covered … With techniques ranging from the traditional to the experimental, this manual is a worthwhile investment for students, tutors and designers. * Embroidery Magazine *This book is an exhaustive manual for anyone wanting to learn more about decorative techniques for fabric … All the pertinent information you need to know is set out in a clear and informative way … If you want to know how to marble or smock fabric, needle-felt a ball, tool leather or print with cyanotope - look no further. * Workshop on the Web *The highly visual quality with many images is a wonderful aspect. The students who choose to pursue these techniques are likely visual learners, who will appreciate the extensive visual documentation of techniques. – Marcia Weiss, Philadelphia University, USThere is a need for a text that easily presents basic methods to students in an easy to follow textbook. – Jason Bunin, Savannah College of Art and Design - Atlanta, USA truly comprehensive guide of this sort—basic-level on many different topics—would be immensely useful to students as they are both beginning their textile education in surface design-relative courses, as well as provide an excellent resource for when they leave school. – Aaron McIntosh, Maryland Institute College of Art, US[This book is] a helpful guide for students. It is clearly written with a thorough understanding of technique and aimed at students/novices. It’s well organized and covers a wide range of applications. – Susanne Goetz, FIT, US