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OverviewAUSTRALIAN AUTHOR Learn to weave your own stories and make personalised woven wall art with this guide to tapestry weaving. A collection of wonderful woven hangings for you to build your tapestry weaving skills. Learn all the techniques you'll need to create your own woven tapestries with a unique, personalised element. Author, Kristin Carter, explains all the skills required to make heirloom woven wall art with a very personal theme and how to recreate images of people, pets and places to create your own 'paintings with thread'. Learn all the basic techniques for tapestry weaving including a quick and easy way to make your own loom using an old photo frame, how to choose the right yarn, working with a template and how to start off a weave. Kristin then explores all the tapestry weaving techniques you will need to make your own stunning wall hangings. All of these techniques are accompanied by step-by-step photography so the instructions are super clear and suitable for absolute beginners. Learn how to do rya loops, weft facing weaving, soumak, pile weaving, diamond twill, overweaving, boubles, and an inverted rya fringe. There are 17 incredible projects for you to experiment and try out your new skills. Each of these can be adapted in order to create your own personalised wall hangings so you can make special heirloom woven art for friends and family. Kristin explains how to set up the loom, gives guidance for yarn amounts and what other tools and equipment are needed for each project. All of the projects are suitable for a an A3 sized loom so you only need one size to try out all of the variations. There are projects for abstract patterns, gradient weaving, blending compatible yarns, pet and people portraits with special techniques for recreating the texture of fur and hair, how to play with transparency in a weaving and creating texture using different yarns. Other techniques covered include cartooning (how to make a cartoon template from photographs); creating templates from your own sketches, how to create a marble effect and advice about colour theory and weaving. AUTHOR: Kristin Carter is an Australian based designer and textile artist. She specialises in creating one-off, heirloom pieces woven wall art, based on specific people, places or pets. Her work is very distinctive and stands out in the market. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kristin Carter (Author)Publisher: David & Charles Imprint: David & Charles Dimensions: Width: 21.70cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 28.00cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781446308943ISBN 10: 1446308944 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 08 March 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsWelcome to Weaving! 5 Tools 6 Making Your Loom 7 Warping Your Loom 10 Choosing Your Yarn 14 Creating a Template 18 Using Your Template 20 Starting a Weave with Tabby 22 Rya Knots 24 Weft-facing Weaving 26 Soumak 28 Diamond Twill 31 Pile Weaving 34 Overweaving 36 Bobbles 38 Inverted and Continuous Rya 40 Embroidery 44 Beading 45 THE PROJECTS Flower Face 48 Love Those Stems 52 Up on High 56 A Pair 60 Bright Dorky Love 64 Blush Breeze 68 Get in Line 72 Girl’s Got Hair 76 Mo Bro 80 Peace, Sister 84 Summer Recall 88 Yarn Upgrade 92 Your Name Here 96 Oh! The Texture! 100 Milkshake 104 The Lovers 108 Fur Gets on Everything 112 Templates 116 Troubleshooting 118 Finishing Your Weaving 120 Acknowledgments 126 About the Author 126 Suppliers 126 Index 127ReviewsAuthor InformationKristin Carter is an Australian based designer and textile artist. She specialises in creating one-off, heirloom pieces woven wall art, based on specific people, places or pets. Her work is very distinctive and stands out in the market. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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