Print Style: Hand-Printed Patterns for Home Decoration - Softcover

Hinchcliffe, John; Barber, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0304348104 ISBN 13: 9780304348107

Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Enliven your home with bursts of color and brightness of hand-printed patterns! These techniques -- so simple that even a beginner will get great results -- can embellish so many different items. Master five forms of printing, design patterns and motifs, and complete more than 20 great projects. Did you know a potato could help you decorate? Just cut out a pattern, dip it in ink or paint, and press! Build complex, multicolored silk screen motifs. In resist-dyeing, wax prevents the dye from seeping into parts of the fabric, allowing a pattern to develop. Experiment with a potato-printed, Nepalese-inspired fish design. Admire your handiwork in the Free shadings of a resist-dyed seagull pattern hanging on the wall. The results will make you the envy of all your friends.

About this title

From Library Journal

Few print technique books present themselves in such a straightforward, accessible manner as this work by Hinchcliffe and Barber, both professional printers of home furnishing accessories. The explanations of the potato, block, and silk-screen printing of textiles and paper and the resist dyeing of textiles could use more step-by-step instructions, but there is enough information to let amateurs get started printing. For libraries where there is an interest in this type of craft.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304348104
• ISBN 13: 9780304348107
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160