Making is good for you. Exploring crafts can be relaxing and
therapeutic : the projects in this book are accessible to anyone
who is inspired to recycle old clothes and textiles into unique,
decorative, useful projects. Our forbears improvised tools to
recycle their worn clothes - mostly dark suiting or mill waste if
they lived near a mill. Usually they made mats for their cold
floors or as draft excluders across doors. Nowadays you can choose
from so many more colours and textures - painting with rags! Try
one project or more. You will be able to use the techniques to
design and make your own one-off items for your home or as
hand-made gifts. The techniques here are traditional and simple -
you will be surprised at how drab fabrics become transformed.
Simple designs work best and you can even improvise as you work. If
a fabric runs out, then use another - I call that organic design!
Hooking is the best technique for pictorial detail and different
techniques could be combined for original wall art. Historically,
rugs were made by several people sitting round a horizontal frame
with the children cutting the pieces of rag which were prodded into
the hessian (burlap) backing to make a shaggy mat. There is a
prodded project (for purists) but you can also achieve the same
effect without a frame by progging, which can be done on table or
thigh (carefully). Warning - this craft can be addictive!
General
| Imprint: |
White Owl Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Crafts |
| Release date: |
October 2021 |
| Authors: |
Jenni Stuart-Anderson
|
| Dimensions: |
276 x 215 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5267-8060-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5267-8060-7 |
| Barcode: |
9781526780607 |
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