Melted Fabrics Book
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The Original Melted Fabrics Book
Melted Fabrics was the first book I wrote detailing the techniques I use on my textiles pieces. In the image opposite you can see that the front cover is one of my layered textiles pieces. This one even has paper layered up in it.
People kept asking me what techniques I used and how I made my textiles so I thought I'd share my knowledge by writing about it.
In this book you will find out how I produce layered, melted fabrics and what tools I use.
You'll see lots of gorgeous full colour images of my work, you get ideas for your own textiles work and you'll see examples of how I get inspiration for my textiles.
This book is available as a digital download from Lulu.com.
Rachel's Melted Fabrics
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Book Information and Excerpts
Rachel's Textiles Secrets Revealed!
A "How- To" Textiles E-Book.
Full of Eye Candy!
Over 220 Full Colour Images
Over 180 pages of textiles
In Acrobat PDF Format
· Full Melting Techniques
· The right Tools and Materials to use
· Ideas for Inspiration
· Projects broken down into stages
· Work in progress photos
· Ideas for Recycling found objects
· Ideas for further experimentation
You will need a basic knowledge of sewing with a machine to use the techniques in this book.
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Excerpt from Melted Fabrics.
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The Contents
Introduction
Evolve and Grow
Be Yourself
Why Melt?
Tools and Materials
Hot Air Guns
Glue Guns
Sewing Machines
Fabrics, Yarns and Threads
Health and Safety
Important Things to remember when Sewing and Melting
Waste Not- Want Not
Objects to Recycle
Examples of Recycling Projects
Inspiration and the Design Process
Photos
Digital Images
Sketchbooks and Notebooks
Layering and Cut away
Layering Fabrics
Top Layers
Stitching Together
Examples of Cut Away
Extreme Layering
Embroidery
Machine Embroidery
When Machine Embroidery goes horribly wrong
Hand Embroidery
Melting
Light melting
Controlled Melting
Heavy Melting
Using Papers
Layering
Handmade Paper
Foil
Using Plastics
Knitting
Layering
Decoration
Using Yarns
Wrapping
Stitching
Weaving
Decoration
Beading
Embroidery
Wrapped Objects
Handmade beads
Yarn
Stuffing
Backing layers
What to use
Further Ideas
Progression of an Art Quilt
Paper Templates
The Process
Using photo transfers
Using Embossing Metal
Finishing Techniques and using your Textiles
Bags
Textiles and framing
Figurines
Fixing Mistakes
Cutting out and sewing in
Puckering
Artist's Gallery
Discussion of techniques used in specific projects
Caring for your textiles
Light
Washing
Dusting
About the Author
Using Papers
The fabric techniques I use are for making a piece of art. For this reason I don't wash my textiles pieces. As they're not going to get wet this gives me a great opportunity for using other materials, like paper.
You can get papers that are just as beautiful as any cloth. I love the handmade silk papers and the thick papers that are made out of plant fibres.
The textiles piece below features a few different papers.
Using Paper
Layering paper with fabrics.
Using Plastics
I mainly use a lot of cheap manmade fibres and too be honest they're pretty much made of plastic anyway so I began to experiment with using and recycling plastics in my textiles pieces.
Remember if you melted plastics and fabrics then always wear the appropriate face masks and work in a well ventilated area!
Using Plastics
Mixing plastics with fabric.
My Textiles Work
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Progression of an Art Quilt
You don't have to wait until you get your copy of Melted Fabrics to read this section. Find the abridged version below!
Breakdown of Autumn
Find out how I made Autumn.
Melting
I've split the Melting chapter up because you can get different effects depending on how long you subject your textiles to heat and which fabrics you use.
The image below shows a textiles piece, layered with metallic voile, that's undergone some heavy melting.
Heavy Melting
Melting holes through your work.
Stuffing
Stuffing is a great way to give your textiles pieces dimension. In the image below I've stuffed certain parts of the textiles piece to bring areas to your immediate attention.
Stuffing is a cute idea if you want to make a textiles piece with people on, for example, and almost make them into little dolls on the surface.
Stuffing
3D Textiles.
More Eye Candy!
Chapter Title Pages
My Textiles Books
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Laniann
Sep 2, 2009 @ 10:26 am | delete
- Beautiful fabric! I like your CD covers! 5*s
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- Your work is beautiful - I especially love Autumn!
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