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Felt Fabric Designs: Felt craft techniques and recipes for textile artists Hardcover – 19 Sept. 2013
The basic ingredients of wool, lightweight woven fabric and a variety of fibres and yarns can be combined in a myriad of ways to create beautiful one-off pieces of felted fabric. This useful and inspirational book is a collection of felt 'recipes' to help you make all sorts of felt fabrics, from light and airy Nuno felt, suitable for delicate projects such as wedding veils, to heavier, more durable fabrics that you can use to make handbags and other hardwearing items. It explains how to use layered fabric and felt, create interesting shaped edges and incorporate beads and other embellishments to enhance your work.
Each 'recipe' contains full step-by-step instructions to enable you to create a stunning, unique piece of fabric. Suggestions are given for possible uses for each fabric, from evening wear and accessories to items for the home. Illustrated with stunning examples of felt fabrics and items that have been made with them, this book is a handy sourcebook to help you create a huge range of different felted fabrics for your textile-art projects.
- Print length128 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBatsford
- Publication date19 Sept. 2013
- Dimensions21.59 x 1.91 x 28.58 cm
- ISBN-101849940444
- ISBN-13978-1849940443
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- Publisher : Batsford (19 Sept. 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 128 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1849940444
- ISBN-13 : 978-1849940443
- Dimensions : 21.59 x 1.91 x 28.58 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,442,801 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1,463 in Gardens in Britain
- 11,877 in Needlework & Fabrics
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Customers find the book full of inspiration and techniques for craftwork. They appreciate the clear illustrations and photos that help them create lovely felt. The soft, tactile cover feels like a textile. The color palette is described as colorful and beautiful.
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Customers enjoy the book's inspiration and techniques. They find it helpful for craftwork, with clear explanations and easy-to-follow project ideas suitable for all skill levels. Many of them consider it a valuable addition to their felting library and will use it for felting workshops.
"This is a most inspiring book with a fabulous soft feel, fabric cover. It is a textbook for felt makers, rather than a book for beginners...." Read more
"...Lots of design ideas inside - examples and instructions - I want to try everything!" Read more
"Beautiful and inspiring" Read more
"The book's illustrations are a delight and full of inspiration...." Read more
Customers enjoy the illustrations and photos in the book. They find the various techniques clear and well-explained. The step-by-step guides to creating beautiful felt are also appreciated.
"...Generously illustrated with superb photographs that are a joy to look at, this is a book that I keep returning to over and over." Read more
"...The step by step guides to creating beautiful felt are clear and produce lovely scarves." Read more
"Beautiful edition and great projects! Well describing various techniques, beautiful photos, well explained." Read more
"An inspirational reference book. Love the cover! Good easy to follow project ideas and great to adapt for all levels." Read more
Customers enjoy the book's soft, tactile cover. They describe it as a textile and mention that it helps them achieve felting effects they have seen but couldn't work with.
"This is a most inspiring book with a fabulous soft feel, fabric cover. It is a textbook for felt makers, rather than a book for beginners...." Read more
"I'm new to felting but loved this book as soon as it arrived - it's so tactile with its 'furry' cover...." Read more
"Full of easy to follow techniques for achieving those fabulous felting effects that you have seen, but couldn't work out how to do yourself...." Read more
"Super book - I like the cover it feels like a sort of textile. Speedy delivery, well packaged" Read more
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 July 2015This is a most inspiring book with a fabulous soft feel, fabric cover. It is a textbook for felt makers, rather than a book for beginners. It has given me many ideas for techniques to experiment with over the winter months. It is a book that will stretch me and take me to the next level, which is just what I want. Generously illustrated with superb photographs that are a joy to look at, this is a book that I keep returning to over and over.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 March 2016I'm new to felting but loved this book as soon as it arrived - it's so tactile with its 'furry' cover. Lots of design ideas inside - examples and instructions - I want to try everything!
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2017Beautiful and inspiring
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 November 2013The book's illustrations are a delight and full of inspiration. The step by step guides to creating beautiful felt are clear and produce lovely scarves.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2015Full of easy to follow techniques for achieving those fabulous felting effects that you have seen, but couldn't work out how to do yourself. Well worth adding to your felt library. Is a great companion to Catherine O'Leary's Felt to Fabric.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 March 2016Beautiful edition and great projects! Well describing various techniques, beautiful photos, well explained.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 May 2017i was disappointed with the content , found it dull and was not inspired to try any of the suggestions.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2018This book is useful for a few tips on technique, but not much use for someone like me who is working with her own raw alpaca fibre. The author uses ready-made felt and basically embellishes it.
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Cliente AmazonReviewed in Italy on 19 September 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars perfetto
perfetto, mi è piaciuti molto, accurato, anche se in inglese molto comprensibile se si ha una base della lingua inglese
- Martha ToddReviewed in Canada on 17 August 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Excellent book. Inspirational and easy to follow instructions. Love it.
- Christine CadoretteReviewed in the United States on 30 August 2013
5.0 out of 5 stars Made me want to get into the studio right away!
The beauty of this book starts with the cloth hard cover...I even love the feel of it in my hands. This is subtitled "a recipe book for textile artists" and I feel like that's exactly what it is. There are some very cool techniques in here with some different twists in method from what I've tried before. I'm eager to start building a new swatch collection to try them out.
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MEGReviewed in Italy on 26 August 2024
2.0 out of 5 stars Non soddisfatta del tutto.
Sono trattati molti tipi di nuno feltro ma sono poco chiare e poco dettagliate le metodologie per realizzarle. Pressoché inutile dal punto di vista pratico per me.
- LuluReviewed in Canada on 19 June 2015
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Too generic/vague