New from Old
How to Transform and Customize Your Clothes
Published on 18. May 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-84533-177-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book provides inspiration and the technical know-how to customize and transform clothing to create your own unique style. Hunting out bargains in charity shops is no longer the province of art students, and more and more of us want to produce our own personalized "look" rather than turning into high street "clones". There is no easier, cheaper, or more successful way of doing this than by looking out for bargains and then revitalizing them with a few simply stitched ideas: adding braids, a corsage, revamping a pair of velvet slippers with simple embroidery. Sometimes old favourites need a new lease of life, whether by receiving a quick dip dye treatment or even a radical makeover. Divided into four chapters (Changing Colours; Changing Decoration; Changing Forms; and Changing Shapes) and supported by an eminently practical techniques section, this book will encourage you to take your wardrobe in hand and transform it into your own unique style.
This book provides inspiration and the technical know-how to customize and transform clothing to create your own unique style. Hunting out bargains in charity shops is no longer the province of art students, and more and more of us want to produce our own personalized "look" rather than turning into high street "clones". There is no easier, cheaper, or more successful way of doing this than by looking out for bargains and then revitalizing them with a few simply stitched ideas: adding braids, a corsage, revamping a pair of velvet slippers with simple embroidery. Sometimes old favourites need a new lease of life, whether by receiving a quick dip dye treatment or even a radical makeover. Divided into four chapters (Changing Colours; Changing Decoration; Changing Forms; and Changing Shapes) and supported by an eminently practical techniques section, this book will encourage you to take your wardrobe in hand and transform it into your own unique style.
This book provides inspiration and the technical know-how to customize and transform clothing to create your own unique style. Hunting out bargains in charity shops is no longer the province of art students, and more and more of us want to produce our own personalized "look" rather than turning into high street "clones". There is no easier, cheaper, or more successful way of doing this than by looking out for bargains and then revitalizing them with a few simply stitched ideas: adding braids, a corsage, revamping a pair of velvet slippers with simple embroidery. Sometimes old favourites need a new lease of life, whether by receiving a quick dip dye treatment or even a radical makeover. Divided into four chapters (Changing Colours; Changing Decoration; Changing Forms; and Changing Shapes) and supported by an eminently practical techniques section, this book will encourage you to take your wardrobe in hand and transform it into your own unique style.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Octopus Publishing Group
Product notice
With flaps
Illustrations
c.200 colour photographs & illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 204 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
489 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84533-177-1 (9781845331771)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jayne Emerson is a young textile designer and embroiderer with a passion for fabrics and for design. She designs embroidered textiles on a freelance basis, and her designs have sold to major houses, such as Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Chanel, and Calvin Klein. She holds a Masters degree in Fashion from St Martins, London, she also used to run her own fashion company using recycled garments under the label Salvage. Jayne is the co-author, with Margaret Docherty, of Simply Felt (published autumn 04 in the USA and the UK); she is also writing a pair of books, The Impatient Patchworker and The Impatient Embroiderer (2005).
Jayne Emerson is a young textile designer and embroiderer with a passion for fabrics and for design. She designs embroidered textiles on a freelance basis, and her designs have sold to major houses, such as Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Chanel, and Calvin Klein. She holds a Masters degree in Fashion from St Martins, London, she also used to run her own fashion company using recycled garments under the label Salvage. Jayne is the co-author, with Margaret Docherty, of Simply Felt (published autumn 04 in the USA and the UK); she is also writing a pair of books, The Impatient Patchworker and The Impatient Embroiderer (2005).
Jayne Emerson is a young textile designer and embroiderer with a passion for fabrics and for design. She designs embroidered textiles on a freelance basis, and her designs have sold to major houses, such as Donna Karan, Marc Jacobs, Chanel, and Calvin Klein. She holds a Masters degree in Fashion from St Martins, London, she also used to run her own fashion company using recycled garments under the label Salvage. Jayne is the co-author, with Margaret Docherty, of Simply Felt (published autumn 04 in the USA and the UK); she is also writing a pair of books, The Impatient Patchworker and The Impatient Embroiderer (2005).
Content
What to Look For? 6; Ideas for finding the best bargains; checking out styles, fabrics, possibilities, colours, and practicalities. What not to throw away. How to identify the best quality, shapes, and fabrics for you. How to identify natural fabrics - silks, linens, and wools. How to look beyond the fabric and identify good shapes and patterns that you can copy. Make the most of size - buy large-size clothes with lots of fabric to cut down and re-make into new for you.; Changing Colour 20; What to do when the colour doesn't suit you... Playing with colour - what you can dye and what you can't. Washing machine dyeing. Hand-dyed vests and trims. Dyeing trims and buttons. Machine-dyed cotton pjs with trims. Dyeing to be decorative. Dip-dyeing a skirt. Machine-dyed cotton shirt with overstitched embroidery. Dyed jumper with trim variations. Over-size jumper felted down. Look out for the stitching not taking the dye and use this to make a design feature. Rectifying a colour you don't like.; Changing Decoration 40; What to do when the item is nice but boring... Embellishing with embroidery, beads, sequins, and ribbons. Different kinds of decoration, what to look for, and where to get it. Embroidered cardigans with beads and sequins. Embroidered denim - jeans and jacket. Embroidered evening vest. Different stitches and applique techniques. Beading - taking simple items and patterns and making them special. Beading net for shoes and scarves. Beading a bag. Buttons - making your own and adding them to a garment. Buttons as a design feature. Shop-bought trims for quick and easy fixes.; Changing Form 60; What to do when you love the fabric but not the item... Coats, skirts, etc transformed into belts and bags, and scarves into camisole tops. Making a scarf from an oversize item. Making a suede bag from an old-fashioned leather skirt or jacket. Felting an oversize jumper to make a cardigan, jacket, or bolero. Turning a scarf into a camisole top. Taking apart a necklace to combine and re-string anew. Cutting out a floral to use as an applique. Using a scarf as a belt with a vintage buckle. How to make patterns from garments. Tracing them off without cutting it up. Unpicking or cutting up the seams to make a fabric pattern.; Changing Shape 82; What to do when the garment is great but doesn't suit you... Going up and Coming down: Cutting off trousers to make capri pants or shorts. Cutting down a skirt to make it shorter. Adding to a skirt to make it longer with bands and ruffles. Adding shoulder tucks to a baggy blouse to make it more fitted. How to make a long sleeve blouse short-sleeved. How to turn a round neck into a v-neck.; Back to Basics 108; Practical dyeing. Basic stitching - seaming, cutting seams, overstitching, and hemming. Basic embroidery - french knots, running stitches etc. Basic alterations - lengthening and shortening, unpicking seams, darning, patching.; Endmatter & Index.