Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves
Published on 31. March 2012
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-84797-319-1 (ISBN)
Description
Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves sounds like a contradiction in terms, but this book sets out to show how textiles can do precisely that: shape themselves. Weaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials can create fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties. Although these fabrics are flat on the loom, they are transformed by washing - water releases the energy of the different yarns and the fabrics 'organize themselves' into crinkled or pleated textures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ramsbury
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Halftones, color; Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 266 mm
Width: 224 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
912 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84797-319-1 (9781847973191)
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Ann Richards
Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves
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03/2012
The Crowood Press Ltd
€35.49
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Person
Ann Richards trained and worked as a biologist, before going on to study woven textiles at West Surrey College of Art & Design where she later worked as a lecturer. Her background in biology has strongly influenced her textile work, which often draws on form and function in nature. Her work has been exhibited widely, both in the UK and abroad. In 1989 she won First Prize (MITI Award) at the 4th International Textile Design Contest in Tokyo. Over the past twenty years she has lectured and given workshops in the UK and elsewhere, including Europe, Canada and the USA.