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You
might be thinking that you can already buy fabric that
is printed, embellished or otherwise adorned, but how
much more fun it is to do it yourself. It
is possible to have whatever you want on your fabric,
the only limit is your imagination and maybe not knowing
how to achieve the right
look.
This
book gives fabric crafters lots of ways to decorate
their materials. Perhaps it spreads itself
a bit thin covering so many different topics, but I
look on it as a taster, giving you a glimpse of what
is out there. At the beginning is a list
of lists, telling you what you need to buy in order
to do that particular method. This is very
useful, letting you know
what is possible with only a bit of shopping and what
will entail buying expensive and/or hard to source items. Following
that are sections on fabrics and ways of designing patterns
by hand and on computer (Adobe Photoshop). Then
there are the chapters dealing with the various grouped
methods for printing, dyeing, and embellishing with
an assortment of items and embroidery of many types. Each
chapter includes a section with the work of a designer
and an interview with them. Personally, I
found that this added nothing to the book at all, and
the section on Going struck me as a curious add-on
for a book dealing with the basics in a number of disparate
decoration methods. I was interested to see
the staged photographs showing basic ways of doing each
method and at the back are lists of useful books to
take it further, websites in various countries and a
glossary. A useful taster book that lets the reader
know what is out there when it comes to decorating fabric.. |
