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Summary: inspiring book
Review: Absolutely wonderful book with techniques and design elements to help any artist or textile lover create new and exciting cloth! Shows you how to create depth and interest/movement. Have just finished a 5 day workshop with Jane and between the book & the workkshop am bursting with new ideas...
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Summary: inspiring book
Review: Absolutely wonderful book with techniques and design elements to help any artist or textile lover create new and exciting cloth! Shows you how to create depth and interest/movement. Have just finished a 5 day workshop with Jane and between the book & the workkshop am bursting with new ideas...
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Summary: Yes, this is an excellent designer!
Review: Design?, August 28, 2001
Reviewer: A reader from HH,Germany
The title picture already looks horrendous.How can anyone call that Design? Sorry,but i mean... Was this review helpful to you? NO I am disturbed by this comment. I have read the book and have participated in the seminar in San Antonio. Jane Dunnewold is an excellent designer! It seems like the reader/viewer above has no idea about what design really is!
He/she didn't even have the guts to finish the comment, or display their name. Hardly worth noticing since the book already got 4 1/2 stars from knowledgeable artists anyway ;-)
Jane, keep up the excellent work! Angela Vizzard, Bellevue, WA, USA
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Summary: Yes, this is an excellent designer!
Review: Design?, August 28, 2001
Reviewer: A reader from HH,Germany
The title picture already looks horrendous.How can anyone call that Design? Sorry,but i mean... Was this review helpful to you? NO I am disturbed by this comment. I have read the book and have participated in the seminar in San Antonio. Jane Dunnewold is an excellent designer! It seems like the reader/viewer above has no idea about what design really is!
He/she didn't even have the guts to finish the comment, or display their name. Hardly worth noticing since the book already got 4 1/2 stars from knowledgeable artists anyway ;-)
Jane, keep up the excellent work! Angela Vizzard, Bellevue, WA, USA
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Summary: A ONE-OF-A-KIND resource for surface design techiniques!
Review: Discover textile artist Jane Dunnewold's secrets to creating visual complexity and depth in fabric. In this comprehensive guide, Jane explains her system of layering simple processes to produce intriguing surface designs. Full-color photographs of fabric, quilts, and clothing provide a sampling of her beautiful results.
Experiment with • fiber-reactive dyes
• household bleach
• fabric paints
• water-based resists
• photocopy transfers
• foiling
• silk screening
• stenciling
• stamping
• embroidery
• & beading
to create your own sumptuous fabrics. Complex Cloth is a one-of-a-kind resource for a variety of surface-design techniques. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jane Dunnewold grew up in central Ohio, an area rich in the traditions of sewing and quiltmaking, and has maintained a studio in San Antonio, Texas, since 1978. Jane has produced more than 300 lengths of complex cloth, no two alike. Her work has been included in many juried and invitational exhibitions, including Quilt National '93 and '95 and Visions: Layers of Excellence '93 and '96. Jane currently teaches in and chairs the Surface Design Studio at the Southwest Craft Center in San Antonio. She shares her home studio with trumpet-player John Carroll and daughter Zenna. That Patchwork Place invites you to visit our website at http://www.patchwork.com/
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Summary: excellent resource book for fiber artists at all levels
Review: Dunnewald's book is outstanding in every way. Directions are clear, organized, and illustrated in step-by-step photographs and in text. A wide variety of contemporary techniques are presented. Wonderful photographs of completed works are found throughout the book. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in textile design and production.
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Summary: The best book in the field
Review: I have a very large collection of books about surface design and fabric dyeing, and this one stands above all the others, even though many of them are very very good. I find myself returning to this book again and again, not just for the excellent instructions, but for the glorious pictures as well. Also, every technique is followed by a series of alternative ideas for using the technique, and at the end of the book is a wonderful series of project plans, not to mention comparisons of various fabric paints and a list of resources. If this book doesn't get your creative juices going, you need taxidermy.
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Summary: Loaded with ideas.
Review: I read this book from cover to cover--could not put it down! It has some of the BEST IDEAS for combining techniques and shows OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES of each technique. Everything is explained so clearly and the author is so encouraging that I didn't feel intimidated at all. In fact, my friend and I are getting together for a project, we just haven't decided yet what technique(s) to try first. A MUST for any textile artist.
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Summary: Loaded with ideas.
Review: I read this book from cover to cover--could not put it down! It has some of the BEST IDEAS for combining techniques and shows OUTSTANDING EXAMPLES of each technique. Everything is explained so clearly and the author is so encouraging that I didn't feel intimidated at all. In fact, my friend and I are getting together for a project, we just haven't decided yet what technique(s) to try first. A MUST for any textile artist.
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Summary: Design?
Review: Jane Dunnewold does an excellent job of creating an environment of experimentation and education. Her examples and descriptions of techniques inspire the readers to stretch their imaginations and use the basics of textile design to create their own imaginative works of art and soar. This is a book that travels with me from studio to bed to work in the car and everywhere in between as it stimulates ideas to take back to the studio. I love it. It's my number one resource for textile design and I'm an avid collector of textile design resources.
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