Custom Woven Interiors Bringing color and design home with Rep weave - Hardcover

Kelly Marshall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0985207108 ISBN 13: 9780985207106

Publisher: Custom Woven Interiors, 2012

Synopsis

As a designer, Marshall takes a contemporary approach to traditional designs. In this beautifully photographed volume, she provides insight into her own design process and gives tips for translating inspiration into textiles, designing for Rep weave, and using color and pattern to transform environments.

In Custom Woven Interiors, Marshall presents 18 project sets of related items for every room in the home.

All of the items can be reproduced from her weaver drafts and detailed instructions. Weavers at any level, designers, and anyone interested in contemporary fabrics for interiors will find this book a valuable resource.

About this title

About the Author

Kelly Marshall, designer and weaver, is the founder of Custom Woven Interiors, a business specializing in creating textiles for residential and corporate settings. She is recognized for the welcoming color, pattern and Rep weave technique that characterize her weavings.

Her award-winning textiles have been exhibited at the finest national craft shows including The Smithsonian and The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show.

Marshall is featured on Modern Masters and MN Original television series, and in publications such as Handwoven, Home & Garden, Midwest Home, Mpls. St. Paul and Arts & Crafts Home.

Review

''Although this book primarily focuses on Rep weave, it has a strong emphasis on design and colour techniques and will be interesting to a much wider audience, including other craftspeople.
Kelly first demonstrates her creative approach to designing textiles for her own home, taking stock of furniture and floor/wall surfaces to decide on her projects, with colour choices as her starting point. She then looks at patterns and motifs, explaining sources of inspiration (architectural details and historical textiles are just two referred to) and how she builds a design.
Colour combinations are explored next, using various techniques developed by experience.
Transferring a design to the loom is the next stage, and so recommendations for materials and equipment are given. Kelly recognises that the heavy, warp faced weave of traditional Rep does not suit all furnishing fabric requirements and so introduces an alternative technique which results in a much lighter weight fabric, allowing the weft to show. The techniques and tips section is an ideal introduction to Rep. The second half of the book details 18 projects which can be followed to give you experience in Rep weaving, or provide inspiration or a starting point for your own designs.
Each project is clearly photographed and graphed. Not having studied Rep weave, I found that I needed to double check my understanding of the instructions with a more experienced friend, although there is an explanatory page at the end of the projects.

This is not a book for beginner weavers, but both experienced weavers and those interested in studying various approaches to design will find it very inspiring, as Kelly's colour and pattern combinations are stunning and the photographs throughout the book are first class.'' --Christina Chisholm, Online Guild July 2012

''If you've ever dreamed of furnishing your home exclusively with handwoven textiles, the book entitled Custom Woven Interiors by Kelly Marshall will encourage and inspire you to achieve that goal.'' --Rosalie Neilson, Handwoven Magazine August 2012

Edition details

• Publisher: Custom Woven Interiors
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0985207108
• ISBN 13: 9780985207106
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 130