Creating Sketchbooks for Embroiderers and Textile Artists
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Creating Sketchbooks for Embroiderers and Textile Artists

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Sketchbooks are invaluable companions for artists and an essential part of today
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published June 30th 2006 by Batsford
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Zsofia
Zsofia rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Zsofia by: Mr. Sarsfield
Many inspirational images of sketchbooks from which you can create your own interpretations; for this reason it is not at all limited to embroiderers or textile artists at all. In fact, if you are looking for a book on how to approach any type of sketchbook this might be good.
I thought it would be more focused on textiles, and embroidery or give more ideas of how you can incorporate them in your sketchbook, so in a way that was a slight bit disappointing, but all in all I'm happy I own th...more
Matthew Gatheringwater
Matthew Gatheringwater rated it 3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for: obsessive types who need a creative jumpstart and people interested in bookarts
Shelves: knitting
If pages from your sketchbook have their own titles and can be displayed in a gallery, or that is the kind of sketchbook you'd like to have, then this is the book for you.

When I refer to a sketchbook, I mean a messy collection of swatches, sketches, yarn gauges, and photographs that is essentially a private record meant to inspire and remind me about actual projects. The sketchbooks in Creating Sketchbooks are really more like works of art in themselves. That's why, although I like th...more
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