BOOKS:
Please support your local independent bookstore or buy directly from the publisher at:
Schiffer Publishing: https://www.schifferbooks.com/the-intentional-thread-a-guide-to-drawing-gesture-and-color-in-stitch-6651
Many thanks for your interest.
Feel free to contact me with comments and questions at: brandeis@ncsu.edu
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Coming April 28, 2024…
The Cumulative Cloth, Dry Techniques: A Guide to Fabric Color, Pattern, Construction, and Embellishment (Schiffer Publishing, 2024)
A comprehensive how-to reference that teaches dry textile surface design techniques for making custom cloth, including piecing, appliqué, reverse appliqué, fabric manipulation, and embellishment.
Learn surface design for textiles, to create rich and personally expressive fabric surfaces. Projects by expert Susan Brandeis (author of the bestselling The Intentional Thread) help novices and experienced professionals experiment with each method.
• Covers dry techniques in detail: how to add color, pattern, and images to fabrics using cutting, piecing, layering, building, and embellishing.
• Includes both machine stitching and hand stitching.
• What’s the “Cumulative Cloth”? A single cloth that readers add to with each chapter’s techniques, eventually creating a piece of art.
• Serves as a go-to reference to check technical procedures and safety guidelines (many methods require caution).
• Wet techniques are covered separately in the author’s coordinating book, The Cumulative Cloth, Wet Techniques (2023).
• Praise for the author: “Brandeis takes us on a journey into the expressive nature of stitch . . . reveals how to manipulate stitches much like an artist might a pencil or paintbrush.” —Embroidery Magazine
Size: 8.5in x 11.0in | Pages: 376 | 560 color images and diagrams
Binding: Hardback
The Cumulative Cloth, Wet Techniques: A Guide to Fabric Color, Pattern, Construction, and Embellishment (Schiffer Publishing, 2023)
A comprehensive how-to reference that teaches wet textile surface design techniques for making custom cloth.
For surface designers from novice to advanced, expert Susan Brandeis offer an authoritative companion allowing. you to learn the methods, confirm tehcnical procedures and safety guidelines, and constantly expand your expressive capabilities. Learn wet techniques in detail, from application and layering of textile dyes, pigments, and chemicals to adding color, pattern and images. The 39 projects help you experiment with each method. Dip into any chapter that interests you, or go chapter by chapter, adding new features, to create a “cumulative cloth”–an artwork that brings surface design to life.
• Covered separately in a future volume: dry techniques: how to combine these handmade fabrics (or store-bought fabrics) using cutting, piecing, layering, building, and embellishing.
• Praise for the author’s previous book: “Brandeis takes us on a journey into the expressive nature of stitch . . . reveals how to manipulate stitches much like an artist might a pencil or paintbrush.” —Embroidery Magazine
PUB DATE: Nov. 2023
ISBN: 978-0-7643-6690-1
Hard cover 8.5” x 11”
320 pp 425 color images
$59.99
The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch (Schiffer Publishing, 2019)
Independent Book Publishers Association, Benjamin Franklin Award, Gold Award winner (Crafts and Hobbies)
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Description from the book cover:
“Whether your particular interest is pictorial, portraiture, abstract compositions, or actual text, you
can “say” almost anything with thread. More than 350 color photographs translate the techniques
of drawing, painting, and good composition into the world of stitch, and “Try This!” projects inspire
your own individual approaches. Including the role of machine stitching, this design resource,
learning tool, and inspirational reference helps practitioners at all levels, whether beginning student,
dedicated amateur, or professional. Take a lyrical—but logical—journey of skill building, and
begin to stitch intentionally and express your creative vision.”
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VIDEOS:
•Retrospective at The Festival of Quilts, Birmingham, England (2008)
Directed and recorded by filmmaker Andrew Galli, this updated and edited video, was produced during my “featured artist” exhibition at the 2008 Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, UK. This was a spontaneous, unrehearsed 10-minute “tour” of my retrospective work: https://youtu.be/8tzi3CfHFyw