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Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves
Ann Richards
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Description for Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves
Hardcover. Weaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials can create fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties. This title shows how textiles can do precisely shape themselves. Num Pages: 192 pages, 177 colour photographs. BIC Classification: WFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 268 x 18. Weight in Grams: 942. 192 pages, 177 colour photographs. Weaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials can create fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties. This title shows how textiles can do precisely shape themselves. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: WFG. Dimension: 224 x 268 x 18. Weight: 920.
Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves sounds like a contradiction in terms, but this book sets out to show how textiles can do precisely that: shape themselves. Weaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials can create fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties. Although these fabrics are flat on the loom, they are transformed by washing - water releases the energy of the different yarns and the fabrics 'organize themselves' into crinkled or pleated textures.
Weaving Textiles That Shape Themselves sounds like a contradiction in terms, but this book sets out to show how textiles can do precisely that: shape themselves. Weaving with high-twist yarns and contrasting materials can create fabrics with lively textures and elastic properties. Although these fabrics are flat on the loom, they are transformed by washing - water releases the energy of the different yarns and the fabrics 'organize themselves' into crinkled or pleated textures.
Product Details
Publisher
Crowood Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
874g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Ramsbury, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847973191
SKU
V9781847973191
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About Ann Richards
Ann Richards trained and worked as a biologist, before going on to study woven textiles at West Surrey College of Art & Design where she later worked as a lecturer. Her background in biology has strongly influenced her textile work, which often draws on form and function in nature. Her work has been exhibited widely, both in the UK and ... Read more
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