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Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves
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By
Ann Richards
$38.08
Price includes NZ wide delivery! Ships from UK supplier | Rating: | | | Format: | Hardback, 192 pages | | Other Information: | 177 colour photographs | | Published In: | United Kingdom, 20 February 2012 |
"Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves" sounds like a contradiction in terms, but this book sets out to show how textiles can do precisely that: shape themselves. Weaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials can create fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties. Although these fabrics are flat on the loom, they are transformed by washing - water releases the energy of the different yarns and the fabrics 'organize themselves' into crinkled or pleated textures. |
About the AuthorAnn Richards trained and worked as a biologist, before going on to study woven textiles at West Surrey College of Art & Design where she later worked as a lecturer. Her background in biology has strongly influenced her textile work, which often draws on form and function in nature. Her work has been exhibited widely, both in the UK and abroad. In 1989 she won First Prize (MITI Award) at the 4th International Textile Design Contest in Tokyo. Over the past twenty years she has lectured and given workshops in the UK and elsewhere, including Europe, Canada and the USA. PrizesFeatures and reviews in Crafts magazine, Journal for Weavers, Spinners & Dyers and Craft & Design. Reviews on Workshop on the Web, Textiles and Selvedge magazines.
| Publisher: | The Crowood Press Ltd | | ISBN: | 1847973191 |
| EAN: | 9781847973191 | | Dimensions: | 26.0 x 21.0 x 1.0 centimeters (0.87 kg) |
| Age Range: |
15+ years |
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