Textile Landscape

Painting with Cloth in Mixed Media

Cas Holmes

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English

Batsford Ltd
10 December 2018

Textile artworks; Art techniques & principles; Needlework & fabric crafts

Textile Landscapes demonstrates how to develop your approach to textile art with a focus on using found objects and paint and stitch on cloth and paper.

Cas explains how to exploit the contrast between the hands-on textural quality of working with fabrics and threads and the spontaneity and movement of brush marks to lend a painterly quality to your work.

She begins with the basics - keeping a sketchbook to generate ideas, painting and stitching on cloth and on paper and working digitally; Inspiring Landscapes looks at urban and urban space, the changing seasons and great landscapes as well as intimate spaces and travel diaries; Painting and Marking with Cloth explains the practical aspects of painting and dyeing cloth and how to make connections between paint, print, dye, stencil and stitch; Stitch-scapes looks at the different forms of landscape, experimenting with photographs and prints and how to translate those images using ink, stitch, abstract and collage techniques and then at how to transform the image using digital techniques; On Closer Inspection covers using elements and details from landscape and the environment as found objects and for research; finally People and Place explores the relationship we have with the outdoors and the built environment, as well as personal interpretations of place.

The book includes artworks by the author that explore the UK, USA and Australia, as well as works by other internationally renowned textile artists. A creative guide ideal for textile artists of all levels - students, teachers and practising artists and makers - to make unique and beautiful work inspired by the world around us.

By: Cas Holmes
Imprint: Batsford Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 276mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 797g
ISBN: 9781849944359
ISBN 10: 1849944350
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 10 December 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cas Holmes is one of the UK's most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College in West Sussex. She is the author of Textile Landscape, Stitch Stories, The Found Object in Textile Art, Embroidering the Everyday and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines and websites including Embroidery, The Quilter and TextileArtist and for the Festival of Quilts. She lives in Maidstone, Kent.

Reviews for Textile Landscape: Painting with Cloth in Mixed Media

'Packed with instruction, inspiration and gorgeous imagery.' * TextileArtist Blog * 'Another delightful book by Cas Holmes.' * Sew Region Magazine * 'Each page is packed with inspiration.' * Embroidery * 'The textile interpretation of landscape through your hands and your eyes is her ultimate goal, and with this book that goal should be well within your grasp.' * Inspirational *