Overview

Cas Holmes draws inspiration from the 'everyday' in this thoughtful book, using materials and subjects close to home to create exquisite works connected to time and place. Our connection to the 'everyday'and the 'domestic' provides a wealth of inspiration and continues to inform the creative processes of artist Cas Holmes. Resourcefulness and 'making do' using materials and subjects available to hand, results in lyrical works connected to time and place. Working as a 'nomad at home', Cas invites us to re-look at the world and use the limitations sometimes imposed by geographic area or individual circumstances as a rich resource to develop ideas for mixed media textiles in a more thoughtful way. Practical projects and ideas will be exemplified by some of the leading practitioners in textile art today. Chapters would include:'Kitchen cupboards', which features prints with teaboxes, stains with tea, stitch a teabag; Window views; sustainable stitch (using newspapers, and machine stitch letters); textiles inspired by local walks.

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'If you're feeling a bit short on inspiration, this book from Cas Holmes is just the thing to get you finding the wonderful in everyday items' -- Simply Sewing 'A plethora of ideas and techniques' -- The Quilter

'If you're feeling a bit short on inspiration, this book from Cas Holmes is just the thing to get you finding the wonderful in everyday items' -- Simply Sewing 'A plethora of ideas and techniques' -- The Quilter 'There is so much inspiration here, from the ideas themselves to the many ways of developing them into textiles. ... Much wisdom is tucked away in this book.' -- Maggie Grey * WOW Book Looks Newlsetter *

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Cas Holmes is one of the UK's most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College in West Sussex. She is the author of Textile Landscape, Stitch Stories, The Found Object in Textile Art, Embroidering the Everyday and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines and websites including Embroidery, The Quilter and TextileArtist and for the Festival of Quilts. She lives in Maidstone, Kent.

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