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Find a wealth of instruction and inspiration on how to incorporate naturally foraged materials into your artwork. In the process, discover a range of textile techniques - suitable for all levels and abilities - to complement your design. These include hand and machine stitching, solar dyeing, felting, hapa-zome and more.
Using natural materials in textile art is way of connecting a place directly with its artistic representation, but it also makes the artist tap into and observe the true rhythms of the natural world: the seasons, the weather and time. Incorporating consciously foraged goods in art gently forces you to slow down, to take note of each season's bounty, and kindle - or rekindle - an awareness that we are all part of one big eco-system.
Each technique forms one of many pillars of Caroline's large body of work, and she has carefully created eight projects, each introduced after a technique, so you can put your new skills into practice. Throughout, Caroline stresses the importance of taking your time and working organically, letting your foraged goods guide your design. This is an approach that not only encourages an intuitive creative process, but develops a more mindful, positive experience for the artist too.
Interwoven with practical guidance and projects are Caroline's stunning gallery of works, offering inspirational examples of how to take your work farther, and simultaneously demonstrating nature's abundance and variety.
This is an enriching book on textile and natural art that celebrates the maker's relationship with art and the natural world.
Contents
Introduction
Foraging
Colour the seasons
Interconnecting, inspiration & ideas
Materials & threads
Tools & notions
Seek and you shall find... Foraging techniques & projects
Technique: Natural dyeing
Project 1: Bojagi Patchwork Scented Pillow
Gallery
Technique: Wet felting
Project 2: Forage & Felt
Gallery
Techniques: Acetone-transfer fabric printing and Free-machining on soluble fabric
Project 4: The Brecks
Gallery
Technique: Nature-inspired hand embroidery
Project 5: Natural Shadows & Repeat Patterns
Gallery
Technique: Pressing plants
Project 6: Pressed-flower Wall Hanging
Gallery
Technique: Decorative free- machine stitching
Project 3: Memories & Place
Gallery
Technique: Hapa-zome
Project 7: Hapa-zome Drawstring Bag
Gallery
Technique: Silk & wool-top backgrounds
Project 8: Ancient Woodland
Gallery
Presentation & framing
Gathering my thoughts
Templates
Index
