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Shibori Designs and Techniques by Mandy Southan takes the beautiful art of shibori and goes beyond the traditional blue and white to create fabrics in a fabulous array of colours, patterns and textures. Includes step by step photographs and clear instructions on dyeing different fabrics in a wide range of shibori techniques. With 18 beautiful projects and variations included.

 

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Designs & Techniques

Author: Mandy Southan
Pages: 96
Page size: 8"x10"
Publisher: Search Press
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Mandy Southan takes the beautiful art of shibori and goes beyond the traditional blue and white to create fabrics in a fabulous array of colours, patterns and textures.

  • Step by step photographs and clear instructions on dyeing different fabrics
  • A wide range of shibori techniques explained
  • Eighteen beautiful projects and many variations

 

Author Mandy SouthanAbout the Author

Mandy Southan trained as a textile designer an has pursued her love of colour and pattern through a wide range of media including silk painting and screen printing, batik, oil, watercolour and pastel painting. She is especially interested in traditional and contemporary resist techniques including Japanese yuzen dyeing, rozome and shibori, which are the focus of her current work.

Mandy is founder and president of the Guild of Silk Painters and author of several books including the best-selling Beginner's Guide to Silk Painting. She teaches short courses at West Dean College, near Chichester and at her home studio in Hastings, East Sussex.

Table of Contents

 
Introduction 6
Materials 8
Dyeing 12
Binding 28
Hand painting and capping 42
Stitching and capping 46
Stitching and gathering 50
Folding and board clamping 62
Pole winding 74
Pole wrapping 80
Index 96

Instruction Page
Instruction Page

Example
Examples

Example
Sekka shibori

 


Shibori on Velvet Examples
Pole-wrapped Velvets and Hand-painted silk chiffon

Examples Examples
Pole wound shibori and Examples of karamatsu shibori

ExamplesExample
Mokume shibori on silk and cotton and Two-stage binding method

Examples Examples
Bound shibori felts and Sekka shibori on silk chiffon and cotton lawn


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