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Collage, Stitch, Print

Collage, Stitch, Print

Val Holmes

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Learn the secrets of one of textile art's most popular techniques: collagraphy. This comprehensive guide from one of Europe's best-known textile artists and teachers contains everything you need to know about the exciting effects you can achieve using the almost endless permutations of collage, stitch and print, and how you can incorporate them into your own stitched-textile work. Includes invaluable information on making a collagraphy plate using embroidery, choosing suitable surfaces for print, combining paper and fabric, embroidering onto prints, and how to work in series.

Illustrated throughout with the best examples of contemporary collagraphy in textile art, this book is a fascinating introduction to a technique that could become your latest textile-art passion.

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Imprint Batsford
ISBN 9781849940146
Publication Date 16 Aug 2012
Format Hardback
Dimensions 276 x 216 (h x w)
Page Extent 128
Illustrations 120 colour illustrations
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Author Val Holmes
About the Author Val Holmes is a well-known teacher and embroiderer. She runs very popular residential embroidery courses from her home in France.

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