If you’re a stitcher, crafter, scrapbooker, textile artist, or papermaker, you’ll go gaga over Paper, Metal & Stitch!
 Authors Maggie Grey and Jane Wild show you how to work wonders with paper and metal, and unexpectedly infuse elemental embroidery stitches to really rev up your projects.
This book is divided into two easy-to-read sections, Paper and Metal, that describe textural methods, adding color, and embellishing with stitches. Readers are led through basic, texture-building steps to exciting finishing ideas for combining techniques, and using both paper and metal in new ways with a variety of media.
Most of the techniques can be intermixed and combined, bringing together paper and metal and thread. Paper can be molded, formed, cut, torn, and stitched; metal adds a seductive gleam and new dimensions are explored using fine, soft, sheet metals, meshes, wires, and coils. |
 Sampler with Fish. This embroidery used many of the techniques shown in the book. The background is handmade paper, a shaped piece of metal was crinkled using the paper crinkler.
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Some special equipment is needed but most can be found in your workroom or kitchen along with materials ranging from tomato purée tubes to brown paper bags! You'll find lots of new ideas and innovative methods, from melting techniques for embossing powders to using paper with heat-reactive threads.
The stunning four-color photos and clear illustrations make this book candy for the eyes and food for creativity. |
