Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> We are at an exciting moment for the artist designer and craftsman. The barriers between different media and between different methods of production and in- deed between the people using them are dissolving. New materials new techniques and new machines provide new methods of expression and are producing fresh concepts. Something in the quality of life today is causing us to look again at ancient art objects and traditional methods in the light of our contemporary needs. All these factors add up to change and new possibilities both in exploring the new and re-assessing the already-established. This seemed to be the moment to create a book which would demonstrate this state of affairs par- ticularly in relation to those who have chosen the interlacing of fibre and yarn as their means of ex- pression. Such a book would underline the richness of the field of the fibre and yarn and indicate the wide variety of ways in which yarns can be used together creatively. No artist would find it desirable or possible to work in the whole range of textile techniques. Neither of course has it been possible in one book to touch upon every technique in existence – the ramifications of textile construction are immense. But by the bringing together of some of the methods and techniques which are available to the constructor in fibre and thread I hope this book may suggest to the individual designer possible new avenues of exploration.