Books about fiber arts and beading

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If you're looking for great books about fiber and textile arts, including quilting, embellishment techniques, cloth dolls and wearable art, here are some of our suggestions:


General inspiration and/or multiple techniques

Welcome Home by Kaffe Fassett Welcome Home: Kaffe Fassett
by Kaffe Fassett
  • Inspiring use of warm, vivid colors for joyous effects
  • Covers a wide range of media including fiber and painting
  • Makes interior decorating less intimidating for beginners


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The Art of the Needle bookcover The Art of the Needle
by Jan Beaney [out of print in early 2007]
  • Techniques include applique, image transfer, paint embroidery
  • Imagery from unusual graphic and environmental sources
  • Unusual ideas for wall hangings and other decorative projects


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Annie Sloan's Color Schemes Annie Sloan's Color Schemes: For Every Room
by Annie Sloane
  • Interior decorating book, not about creating arts crafts, per se
  • Innovative and exciting color combinations to apply to any project
  • Every page is rich with color schemes and variations


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Quilting

Strip pieced watercolor magic Strip-Pieced Watercolor Magic: A Faster, New Approach to Creating 30 Watercolor Quilts
by Deanna Spingola
  • Lovely heirloom designs and patterns in many sizes
  • Clear, illustrated instructions are helpful for first-time projects
  • Baby-sized quilts can be completed in one (long) day


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Wearable Art book cover Wearable art: Innovative designs for clothing and fibers
by Maria DaConceicao [out of print in 2007]
  • Amazing crazy quilt techniques including vintage and unusual fabrics
  • Innovative uses of textures
  • Elegant and sometimes hauntingly beautiful fabric art


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Wearable Art...
colourwash quilts Colourwash Quilts: A Personal Approach to Design Technique
by Deirdre Amsden [out of print in 2007]
  • Innovative, contemporary designs and striking fabric combinations.
  • For experienced quilters. These are not strip-pieced quilting techniques.
  • Includes color wheel, dye techniques, advanced concepts for art quilts.


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Quilt in a Day bookcover Make a Quilt in a Day : Log Cabin Pattern
Eleanor Burns
  • One of the earliest and most respected quilt in a day books
  • Ideal for beginners
  • I used this technique successfully to make quilts to sell in stores


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Emboidery

Embroidery from Sketch to Stitch Embroidery from Sketch to Stitch
by Pat Langford [out of print in early 2007]
  • Ideal for hand or machine embroidery projects
  • Adapts sketches paintings to embroidered work
  • Includes ideas for dimensional and mixed-media art


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Embroidery...
Stitch Magic Stitch Magic
with Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn [out of print in early 2007]
  • Thick, dimensional techniques with yarn and other fibers
  • Mostly hand embroidery, some adaptable to machine work
  • Good for ethnic projects, pillows, purses, wall hangings


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Cloth dolls and figures

art doll adventures by lisa li hertzi Art Doll Adventures: Exploring Projects and Processes through Cultural Traditions
by Lisa Li Hertzi

  • Fun, innovative, highly original cloth doll projects.
  • Great for beginners and advanced fiber artists alike.
  • Nothing insipid! Dolls, ATCs, fabric books & more.
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Cloth Doll Faces
by Patti Medaris Culea
  • Amazing Gallery of Inspiring dolls!
  • Face Painting demystified with easy to understand charts and directions for playing with colored pencils, water soluble oil pastels and fabric paint.
  • Exciting new approaches to creating unique hair styles and delicious embellishing techniques.

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Creative Cloth Doll Beading Creative Cloth Doll Beading
Designing and Embellishing with Beads
by Patti Medaris Culea with Anne Hesse and Laura McCabe
  • Beaded Tatoos - what more can I say? How COOL!
  • The collaboration of these three stellar dollmakers brings out the best in each artist.  
  • Great new Techniques for wings, hair, creative clothing and beautiful faces!  Also... detailed directions on making flowers - WOW!

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Creative CLoth Doll Couture Cover Creative Cloth Couture
New Approches to Making Beautiful Clothing and Accessories
by Patti Medaris Culea
  • The "Project Runway" of the doll world! This book comes with a great pattern for your doll model - she sits, she stands, she is the proper victorian lady AND the racus tie-dyed hippy chick all bundled into one!
  • Gotta Love the 60's duds, the 40's suit with pumps and of course the faries lovely attire!  Such variety!
  • Techniques for shoes and wings, for beading and truely unique hair, and of course, a plethera of embellishments!

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