Textile Study Group

Sample from 'Remove and Replace' Workshop

‘REMOVE AND REPLACE’ a two day workshop with Sian Martin at the Art Van Go studios on 29th and 30th April 2009. Visit this link for further details -

http://www.artvango.co.uk/workshops/index.html

Sarah Burgess and Jenny Bullen are featured artists in Bailey Curtis’ new
book Inspiration Plus.

Copies can be obtained from Bailey at 7 Lancaster Terrace, Newent, Glos,
GL18 1EA. The book is £12.99 plus £1.50 post and packing.

Creating Sketchbooks for embroiderers and textile artists
Kay Greenlees
published by Batsford
ISBN 0-7134-8957-X
£18.99

This exciting book by Kay Greenlees explores different approaches to keeping sketchbooks. Through exploration of the purposes of a sketchbook and examples from leading textile artists and embroiderers’ it provides an inspirational platform from which to develop your own personal practice. There are over 90 fantastic colour illustrations providing fascinating glimpses into the personal sketchbook pages of a variety of practitioners. The different approaches include drawing and collage; fabric and thread; annotation and thumbnails; exploring concepts; working on location; museum study and many more.

African Inspirations in Embroidery
Mary Sleigh
published by Batsford
ISBN 0-7134-8921-9
£17.99

This lavishly illustrated book contains over 90 colour images of the African people and landscape encountered in my travels and research expeditions in southern Africa. These images together with textiles, beadwork and artefacts from my personal collection are used as inspiration to explore the journey from source material through the design process to completed textiles.

• A wide variety of media, materials and techniques are included to explore colour, pattern and surface texture.
• A range of textile techniques and working samples provide ideas for experimentation.
• The work of leading textile artists is featured showing their responses to an African theme.

African Inspirations in Embroidery
was re-printed in  April 2009 as a paper back with a new cover.

This is available from Amazon and from my web site  www.lizard-dance.com as well.

COLOUR ON CLOTH by Ruth Issett, August 2004, publishers B.T. Batsford

A book focusing on the many aspects of cold water dyeing, from direct painting to discharging, thickened dye and devoré.