Meet Cas Holmes, author of Stitch Stories
Cas Holmes is one of the UK’s most renowned textile artists, and has written for a variety of magazi[…]
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Personal places, spaces and traces in textile art
Format:
Hardback ISBN: 9781849942744
Hardback publication date: 6 August 2015
Category: Textile Art
Hardback price:
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22.95
eBook ISBN: 9781849943345
eBook publication date: 30 July 2015
Category: Textile Art
eBook price: £
16.99
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The events of your life, from local walks to exotic trips, can provide endless inspiration for textile art. This inspiring book shows you how to record your experiences, using sketchbooks, journals and photography, to create personal narratives that can form a starting point for more finished stitched-textile pieces.
Acclaimed textile artist and teacher Cas Holmes, whose work is often inspired by her life and the journeys she makes, helps you find inspiration through your own life and explains how to record what you see in sketchbooks and journals, which can often become beautiful objects in themselves. She explains how you can use photography, both as documentation and as inspiration, and sometimes incorporate it into the work itself, along with found objects and ephemera.
Throughout the book are useful techniques that can be harnessed to add extra interest to your work, such as methods for making layered collages, how to ‘sketch’ with stitch, and advice on design and colour. If you want to create beautiful, unique work inspired by your life and travels, this is the perfect book for you.
ABOUT THE Author
Cas Holmes is one of the UK’s most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College in West Sussex. She is the author of Textile Landscape, Stitch Stories, The Found Object in Textile Art, Embroidering the Everyday and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines and websites including Embroidery, The Quilter and TextileArtist and for the Festival of Quilts. She lives in Maidstone, Kent.
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