Create irresistible designs for your home with hand printing! Bring out your inner artist with 15 modern projects for your home, from a galvanised planter to glass vases and sweet floral curtains to a printed coffee table. A complete visual guide will teach you the secrets of block printing, screen printing, and disperse dye transfer techniques. Start with 12 charming patterns you can use right now, and branch out to sketch your own designs. Getting your hands messy, experimenting, and finding the perfect object to print on is all part of the fun!
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Create irresistible designs for your home with hand printing! Bring out your inner artist with 15 modern projects for your home, from a galvanised planter to glass vases and sweet floral curtains to a printed coffee table.
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Introduction Creating Designs Designing for Printing Types of Designs Techniques Color Design Repeats Surfaces, Inks, Dyes, Materials and Tools Types of Fibers Fabrics Other Printable Materials Inks and Dyes Preparing to Print Block Printing Tools and Materials Transferring the Design Carving the Block Printing with the Block Projects Crochet Table Runner Tomato Thief Accent Pillow Triangled Coffee Table Follow the Snail Galvanized Bucket Planter Chevron Antique Glass Vases Reptile Bird Children Screen Printing Tools and Materials Creating Designs: Paper Stencil Method and Screen Filler Method Printing with a Screen Projects This Little Rooster Went to Market Kitchen Collection Heart of Wood Valentines Fluttering Kaftan American Sky Framed Art Baby Bunny Blanket Bison Toile Bandana Transfer Printing Materials Mixing Dye Paints and Creating Transfers Transferring Designs Projects Watercolor Ribbon Abstract Below Carpet Squares In the Meadow Curtains Selling Your Wares Patterns Sources About the Author
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Make your mark and print on “almost anything,” as the cover says, with this useful primer. Learn how to do various types of printmaking techniques and decorate fabric, metal, glass, wood and even skin! This is a well laid out book that is easy to use and get good results from. Three basic techniques are covered, namely block, screen and transfer printing, and each chapter includes several projects (fifteen in all). To begin, there is an overview about designing, including repeats and different types of image, various options to actual drawing and color mixing. There is another chapter that deals with what to print on, including a helpful table so you don’t buy the wrong product. The three main sections firstly teach you what you need to buy and how to use it, and then offers several projects covering different aspects of it. The author has a fun, chatty style of teaching, and instructions include enough staged photographs as well as tips for getting it right. Designs are fun and modern, and items to print on are very varied. These include a metal garden planter decorated with a repeat design of snails, a tomato-stealing squirrel cushion, seedpod kaftan, triangle printed coffee table, a bandana with a bison and the author’s young children printed to look like animals. Full-sized patterns are included at the back, and there is even a page suggesting ways of selling your wares. In short, this is the type of book that makes learning a new skill accessible and enjoyable by telling you what you need to know to do it well, but not swamping the beginner with a superfluity of information. One for the keeper shelf.
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- Complete visual guide to DIY printing! Make over any surface with block printing, silk screen, and disperse dye transfer - Bring out your inner artist and explore new design ideas with this fun and freeing project book
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781617451478
Publisert
2016-04-01
Utgiver
Vendor
C & T Publishing
Vekt
392 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
203 mm
Dybde
8 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
112

Forfatter

Biographical note

Betsy Olmsted, printed textiles have been featured in stores in the USA nationwide and licensed by companies such as Guildery, Clothworks and Oopsy Daisy. She's eager to share her printing expertise with her fans. She lives in Lancaster, PA, with her family. betsyolmsted.com