Fabric Surface Design

Sensational sewing projects demand fabulous fabrics! Fiber artist Cheryl Rezendes shows you how to create an astonishing array of surface designs, simply and safely, using textile paints and printing ink. She covers a wide variety of techniques: stamping, ancient Japanese Shibori, silkscreen, soy wax and flour resist, image transfer, marbling, nature printing, foils and metal leaf, and more. Step-by-step photographs illustrate every technique, and Rezendes includes innovative suggestions on how to combine and layer techniques for stunningly original results.

Part One: Surface Design Fundamentals
1 Setting Up Your Work Area
2 Exploring Your Media
3 Selecting Your Fabric
4 Painting the Base
5 Adding Texture

Part Two: Surface Design Techniques
6 Stamping and Relief Printing
7 Stenciling Techniques
8 Nature Printing
9 Monotype, Collagraph, and Gelatin Prints
10 Silk-Screen Printing
11 Working with Resists
12 Image Transfer
13 Marbling Methods
14 Fold and Color
15 Drawing on Fabric
16 All That Glitters
17 Sewing: As Accent, Embellishment, and Texture

Part Three: A Designer's Notebook
Inspiration and Record Keeping
Basic Color Theory
Composition 101

Resources
Reading List
Acknowledgments
Index
Distinctive Painted Fabrics, Designed by You

Become your own fabric designer and you'll open the door to a world of quilting and sewing possibilities. Fiber artist Cheryl Rezendes demonstrates more than 80 fabric-printing techniques using fabric crayons and a variety of different textile paints - easier and cleaner to work with than dyes.

Give your colorful creations center stage as pillows, placemats, scarves, or other items of clothing, or discover the rewards of using your customized fabrics in unique art quilts. Explore a single technique or combine and layer techniques for stunning effects that could be made only by you!