Imogen Bright Moon

Wild Yarn

Creating Hand-Spun Yarn from Ethical Fibres

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Produktbeschreibung

An elegantly designed, practical and inspirational guide to choosing, blending and spinning richly textured artisan yarn for weaving, knitting and other textile art applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Batsford
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 216mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 786g
• ISBN-13: 9781849949019
• ISBN-10: 1849949018
• Artikelnr.: 70171120

Autorenporträt

Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist. She creates large textile-based installations, using tapestry weaving and cloth weaving techniques, featuring painterly hand-blended-and-spun yarns. Her practice is founded in material processes, material ethics and heritage craft processes. Imogen is also a researcher, writer and textile-crafts historian. In 2022 she was a recipient of Gypsy Maker 5 from the Romani Cultural & Arts Company / Arts Council Wales. She is represented by The New Craftsmen and exhibited at Collect at Somerset House in 2023. She is based in Brighton.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sensory Craft; experiencing ethical fibres
2.  Painting with Wool; painterly approaches to wool blending
3.  Spinning Beauty; the principles of hand spinning
4. Yarn Finishing; water & weight
5. Curating & Collecting; how to curate a yarn collection
6. Project Ideas; working with hand spun yarn in contemporary crafts
Bibliography
Craftspeople, Artists, Organisations & Suppliers
Acknowledgments
Index
Photography Credits