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    Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric by Holly Brackmann

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    • 144pp
    • Sales Rank: 82,327

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    • ISBN-13: 9781931499903
    • Edition Description: SPIRAL
    • Edition Number: 1
    • Pub. Date: October 2006
    • Publisher: Interweave Press, Incorporated

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    • Pub. Date: October 2006
    • Publisher: Interweave Press, Incorporated
    • Format: Textbook Hardcover, 144pp
    • Sales Rank: 82,327

    Synopsis

    Beginning with studio practices and safety rules, this information-packed handbook is appropriate for both newcomers and experienced dyers but assumes that readers have a serious interest in textile design. An overview of dyeing starts with fibers and fabrics and discusses all aspects of the dyes favored by textile studios—fiber reactive, acid, vat, and disperse—before explaining discharging, screen printing, monoprinting, stamping, stenciling, resist dyeing, dévoré, and painting. Would-be fabric artists are advised along the way to identify a personal approach to dyeing—free spirit? rule-follower?—and color photographs of work by today's top fiber artists elucidate prevailing styles. Recipes and techniques are accompanied by step-by-step instructions with photographs, and a concealed spiral binding allows the book to lie flat. Ten appendices include a worksheet for recording chemicals, procedures, and costs for all projects; a guide to washing fabric; descriptions of stock solutions, thickeners, and steaming; a metric conversion table; and a guide to water temperatures.

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    Biography

    Holly Brackmann is a professor of textiles and art history at Mendocino College whose designs have appeared in Handwoven; Surface Design Journal; Surface Design Newsletter; Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot; and Weavers. She lives in Ukiah, California.

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    Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabricby Anonymous

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    July 18, 2007: Holly Brackmann?s new book The Surface Designer?s Handbook is long over-due and I have ordered it as the textbook for all my fibers classes. As soon as it arrived my students all wanted their own personal copy so several of them purchased it outright just on sight alone. The spiral binding is excellent and the extent of the techniques covered is wonderful. I teach both beginners and advanced fibers students and this book has everything we need as a textbook. I use it myself for my own work and find it very helpful, well organized and thorough. The information about making color cards with diluted MX dye on watercolor paper is worth the selling price all by itself. It is a technique I knew nothing about and I am thrilled to learn about it. It has saved hours and hours of dye testing time. In my classes we had been using Kate Wells? book Fabric Dyeing and Printing and prior to that, Proctor and Lew?s Surface Design for Fabric. Now, 16 years later, Holly?s excellent book has arrived and is the handbook of the hour. It is up to date, comprehensive and thorough, and should be in everyone?s library that works with dyes, textile paints and cloth. It improves on and surpasses every handbook published to date and encompasses a massive amount of information. I look forward to using it in my classes for many years to come and I salute Holly for the enormous amount of work that went into creating this book. She has provided a gift for the entire surface design community both here and abroad. Morgan Clifford, Professor Art Dept / Textiles University of WI-River Falls

    Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabricby Anonymous

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    October 18, 2006: I have learned so much from this book. Holly Brackmann explains not only the how-to aspect of surface design in incredible detail & easy-to-follow steps, but also the how-it-works aspect of the processes. She begins her book with an all-important chapter on safety and then goes on to explain dyes, fibers & fabrics, followed by a chapter on color. Then she gets into explaining not only dyes (e.g., fiber-reactive, acid, vat, and disperse), but also discharging, screen printing, monoprinting, stamping, stenciling, resists, devore, textile painting, & embellishments. I love the clear instructions of the processes and the amazing photos, but what I love the most is that she empowers the user to explore and become profient in the processes. That empowering of the student is the mark of a great teacher.


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