Leanne Prain

Hoopla (eBook, ePUB)

The Art of Unexpected Embroidery
Fotograf: Christenson, Jeff

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hoopla, by the co-author of 2009's bestselling Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti, showcases those who take the craft of embroidery where it's never gone before, in an astonishing, full-color display of embroidered art. Hoopla rebels against the quaint and familiar embroidery motifs of flowers and swashes, and focuses instead on innovative stitch artists who specialize in unusual, guerrilla-style patterns such as a mythical jackalope and needlepoint nipple doilies; it demonstrates that modern embroidery artists are as sharp as the needles with which they work.

Hoopla includes twenty-eight innovative embroidery patterns and profiles of contemporary embroidery artists, including Jenny Hart, author of Sublime Stitching; Rosa Martyn of the UK-based Craftivism Collective; Ray Materson, an ex-con who learned to stitch in prison; Sherry Lynn Wood of the Tattooed Baby Doll Project, which collaborated with female tattoo artists across the United States; Penny Nickels and Johnny Murder, the self-proclaimed Bonnie and Clyde of embroidery; and Alexandra Walters, a military wife who replicates military portraits and weapons in her stitching.

Full-color throughout and bursting with history, technique, and sass, Hoopla will teach readers how to stitch a ransom note pillow, mean and dainty knuckle-tattoo church gloves; and create their own innovative embroidery projects. If you like anarchistic DIY craft and the idea of deviating from the rules, Hoopla will inspire you to wield a needle with flair!

With a foreword by Betsy Greer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781551524375
• Artikelnr.: 38324165

Autorenporträt

Leanne Prain: Leanne Prain co-founded a stitch-and-bitch called Knitting and Beer in order to expand her skills while knitting at the pub. A professional graphic designer, Leanne holds degrees in creative writing, art history, and publishing. She lives and crafts in Vancouver, BC.

Jeff Christenson: Jeff Christenson is a Vancouver photographer.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Foreword by Betsy Greer Acknowledgements Chapter One: A
Craft of Misconception Taking Stitching Seriously The Slow Stitch Tattooed
Baby Dolls: An Interview with Sherri Lynn Wood A Brief and Incomplete
History of Embroidery Embroidery Today Manbroidery: An Interview with
Johnny Murder Poetic Threads: An Interview with Tumim & Prendergast It
Takes All Kinds: Types of Embroidery Embroidery as Art: An Interview with
Jenny Hart Chapter Two: Unknown Territories Participatory Embroidery: An
Interview with Liz Kueneze Diarizing Eating Habits: An Interview with Abby
Krause Embroidered Place-making: An Interview with Annie Coggan Crawford
Embroidered Contradictions: An Interview with Laura Splan Were I So
Besotted: An Interview with Iviva Olenick Sins and Needles: An Interview
with Ray Materson Chapter Three: Tools and Materials Stitch Like You Mean
It Kitted Out Needle Me A Fine Thread Project: Rain and Snow Cowl Hoop
Dreams Cut to the Chase: Scissors Choosing Your Fabric Stabilizers The
Humble Thimble How to Transfer Your Designs Chapter Four: Stitch-witchery
One Stitch Wonders Basic Embroidery Stitches Counted Cross Stitch and
Needlepoint Project: Wolftastic Scarf Project: Eye to the Sky Pocket
Protector Painting with Thread: An Interview with Kirsten Chursinoff
Project: A Creature of Curiosity Chapter Five: Freeform Work Colorful
Abstractions: An Interview with Jacque Lynn Davis Project: Wide Ruled
Scrawl Elevating Ordinary Objects: An Interview with Andrew J. Phares
Project: Photo Feelism Clever Canadiana: An Interview with Sarah Haxby
Bliss in a Teacup: An Interview with Rebekah Nathan Project: Against the
Grain Chapter Six: Graphically Inclined Animated Embroidery: An Interview
with Aubrey Longley-Cook Cross-stitching Pixels: An Interview with Eliot M.
Henning Project: Along for the Ride Project: The 'Always Prepared Pouch'
Intentional Abstractions: An Interview with Takashi Iwasaki Unnerving
Needlework: An Interview with Brette Gabel Oddness and Illustration: An
Interview with Esther Oh Project: Paulo and Stella Totebag Double-Take: An
Interview with Cate Anevski Project: From One Mutant to Another Wall
Hanging Chapter Seven: Unexpected Stitching Project: All Good in the Hood
Quilt Project: Eat the Kitsh Apron Project; Evolution or Revolution Wall
Hanging Project: Knuckle Tattoo Church Gloves Project: Microbe Hankies
Project: Obsessive Beautification Project: Hip Hop: Ode's to the One's &
Two's Project: Home Invasion Project: Love Gun Project: Oxytocin Notion
Project: Make Your Own Luck Wallet Project: Ransom Note Pillow Project:
Bosom Buddies Project: Chug Like a Champ Pillow Project: Modern Cucuclock
Chapter Eight: Finishing Techniques Your Plan of Attack Keep It Clean
Drying Trimming Loose Ends Pressing Issues Display and Storage Project: All
A-Flutter Necklace Chapter Nine: Stitching Resources Embroidery Blogs and
Websites 21st Century Embroidery: An Interview with Jamie Chalmers aka Mr.
X Stitch Make it Social Around the World in 80 Stitches Flossy Flicks By
the Book Project: Guerilla Embroidery Chapter Ten: Without Reservation Meet
Me in the Dayroom; An Interview with Alexandra Walters Unusual
Embellishment: An Interview with Claire Platt Public Embroidery: An
Interview with Ulrika Erdes Rebel Toile: An Interview with Richard Saja
Subverting the Traditional: An Interview with Rosa Martyn Project: Bite the
Hand That Feeds You Making Art All Day Long: An Interview with Penny
Nickels Index