African Inspirations for Embroidery
April 2, 2009
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.
