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Paper, Metal & Stitch: Creating Surfaces with Color and Texture

Paper, Metal & Stitch: Creating Surfaces with Color and Texture
By Maggie Grey, Jane Wild

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This timely project guide concentrates on two of the key materials being newly incorporated into textiles and fiber arts—paper and metal. Both media are covered in separate sections that describe the unique properties of each, as well as textural methods, adding color, and embellishing with stitches. Paper can be molded, formed, cut, torn, embossed, and stitched; metal adds a new gleam; and additional dimensions of the material are explored with soft sheet metals, meshes, wires, and coils. Concepts build through each section, starting with elemental embroidery and basic, texture-building steps, and moving to exciting finishing ideas for combining and mixing techniques for original and innovative results.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #484507 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-10-28
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 128 pages

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"Buy this book and be inspired; your needlework will never be the same."  —Needlepoint Now

About the Author
Maggie Grey is an experienced teacher of embroidery who teaches and exhibits her work worldwide. A former editor of The World of Embroidery, Britain’s leading magazine on the subject, she is the author and coauthor of several books, including Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery. She also edits the innovative and influential web magazine Workshop on the Web (www.workshopontheweb.com). Jane Wild is an artist specializing in mixed media, with a particular interest in paper and paper making. Her articles have been published in various magazines and her work has been shown widely in exhibitions, including London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.

Customer Reviews

Great eye candy and techniques for paper artists4
This is a wonderful raw art book. It has some great textures in it with instructions. It is truly a mixed-media book. There are sections on fabric, paper, metal, and how to combine techniques. There are some techniques in there that I have never tried. I have and they turned out great. I do a lot of raw art collages. I was able to glean a lot of ideas from this book. The colors and textures are great eye candy. What I liked most about this book was that it showed you what you could do with the technique once you tried it. I think that is something that every art book should do since a lot of us artists are visual learners. I think that newbies can learn from the techniques and see what are some of the possible end pieces. More experienced artists can try different techniques and glean ideas from the picts.

this is one inspiring book!5
I surely enjoyed this book and read and re-read it upon receiving my copy. the directions, list of sources, and photos were fantastic.
I would recommend this for anyone considering using these techniques in their artwork.
linda

Amazing artwork5
Absolutely love the art in this book. It isn't a how-to book, but gives you so many ideas and inspiration, that if you've done mixed media for a little while you probably can get a lot out of it.

I use it all the time to try new things and for inspiration.