String

The age-old craft of stringwork is updated and transformed with inspirational designs and 25 varied and exciting projects for you to try at home. Step-by-step photographs take you through each idea in easy-to-follow stages, allowing you to create beautiful and functional objects as diverse as a string-wrapped picture frame, a bottle carrier and a coiled string needlework basket. The author reveals the wide-range of materials and equipment now readily available, and with the help of full-colour photographs explains the basic techniques, including threading, whipping and appliqueing along with advice on getting started and examples of fine work.