Anne Tomlin
Making Silk Flowers
Making Silk Flowers
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This book is a must-have for anyone interested in the art of making silk botanicals, providing detailed instructions and beautiful illustrations to help you create stunning flowers that look almost real. It is a valuable resource for milliners, textile artists, and designers who want to learn this intricate practice.
Format: Unspecified
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
This captivating book delves into the art and skill of creating the most realistic silk botanicals. Through detailed step-by-step sequences, it examines the intricacies of flowers, showcasing how to replicate them from a variety of silk and millinery fabrics. Renowned silk flower-making specialist Anne Tomlin generously shares her ideas and techniques, making this intricate practice accessible to milliners, textile artists, and designers alike. It encourages a forensic observation of the structures and colors of individual flowers, providing instructions on techniques such as dye painting, mixing colors, stiffening silk, shaping petals, and creating leaves. The book showcases over 400 stunning illustrations, including templates for each flower, allowing readers to recreate them with precision. By studying a diverse range of flowers, it encourages experimentation and problem-solving to discover sympathetic methods of making silk flowers that capture the fleeting beauty of nature. It prompts readers to observe the wonders of the natural world more closely and to contemplate how they can interpret and recreate the beauty they encounter.
Weight: 1007g
Dimension: 260 x 215 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780719842894
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