Fiberarts Design Book Three


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A spectacular collection: silky hand-painted fabrics, unique handmade clothing, dazzling colorful quilts, and beautiful tapestries. Everything from complex woven baskets and conceptual papermaking to intricate, humorous needlepoint paintings and wind sculptures.







The Fiberarts Design Book


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A collection of designs for tapestries, soft sculpture, baskets, coverlets, dresses, and other items illustrates ways artisans and craftsmen have combined unusual materials and new forms of needlework with such traditional forms as quilting, knitting, batik, and weaving




Fiberarts Design Book 7


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For more than 20 years, The Fiberarts Design Book series has documented the evolution of contemporary textile art, earning praise from such publications as The New York Times in the process. These lushly illustrated volumes have provided precious source material for crafters, artists, critics, art historians, and all admirers of good design. Once again, for the seventh time, Fiberarts offers a dazzling selection: 550 works were chosen from 6,000 entries from around the world and honored for their innovative design and technical expertise. From sophisticated tapestries to bold surfaces to abundant quilts, they represent the depth and diversity of today’s best work.




Fiberarts Design Book Four


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Fiber Art Today


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Explore the work of three generations of fine artists who have opened their minds and spirits to the boundless range of expressive possibilities in textile methods or materials. Even as the art on these pages references weaving, crochet or quilting, traditional textile notions disappear in the hands of serious artists, appropriating essential elements for their contemporary concepts




Fiberarts Design Book


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Fiberarts Design Book Six


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Handweaving


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Buschman annotates more than 550 books and periodical titles published on the techniques and history of handweaving from 1928 through October 1989. She includes works on how to weave_basic weaving texts, books on looms and equipment, and patterns both for weaving and for woven articles; handweaving history and historic fabrics from around the world; works on Native American weaving, ranging from the Chilkats of the Northwest coast of North America, to the Pueblos and Navajos of our Southwest, Mexico, and Central America, and on through the rich weaving culture of the Andes; reference works containing specialized bibliographies and information on fibers, dyes, education and marketing; and periodicals. With author, title, and subject indexes.