Product Description

An inspiring, all-color survey of designs and patterns for this popular craft.

Often thought of as a practical material, felt can be surprisingly versatile and even poetic. With handmade felted fabrics, subtle variations in color, texture, and volume can be achieved: threads and fibers merge almost magically to form new motifs that can then be enlivened by embroidered or crocheted details.

Françoise Tellier-Loumagne takes an original approach to the world of feltmaking, finding design inspiration in calm morning skies, spectacular sunsets, and brilliant fireworks displays. The book includes basic techniques that can be used to create felted fabrics from scratch, such as needle-felting and tufting, along with imaginative ideas for ready-made felt. With a little artistic guidance, clouds across the moon can be turned into an eye-catching necklace, or a stormy sky may inspire a striking scarf or cushion cover.

Illustrated with hundreds of images, this book will be a treasure trove for anyone interested in original textile design.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #295679 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

About the Author
Françoise Tellier-Loumagne has taught textile and knit design in France for more than forty years.

Customer Reviews

Hope you like pictures of sky!
If you like endless pictures of sky and clouds, this book is for you. If you would like some techniques, look elsewhere. This book is just repetitive photos of clouds and sky, and some felted/embellished samples imitating those photos. There is no technique explanation or instruction that I could find...but then, I almost got lulled to sleep reading through it. If you want instruction on these techniques of felting and embellishing, don't waste your money on this book.

The Art of Felt: Inspirational Stitches, Textures,and Surfaces
The Art of Embroidery: Inspirational Stitches, Textures, and Surfaces

Having loved "The Art of Embroidery", I saw this book in a store and instantly knew I had to have it. I am exploring many fiber arts including dyeing and felting and like to follow my own ideas and designs, so this book is ideal for me. The book gives a small amount of info on how the look was achieved but this is not a step by step "How To" book. It is a starting point to jump from, so you can develop work from an idea and ask "what if"?. It starts the creative process by inspiration and encourages you to develop your own pieces using the techinques shown. Photos are amazing and the colours are awesome. An essential for my library.

The Art of Felt: Inspirational Designs, Textures, and Surfaces

The Art of Felt
This is an incredible book. Not for everyone though. It examines the art of felting in great depth (emphasis on art) but is not a pattern book. There are many pages of photographs of clouds and other examples of nature to inspire the artist.