Machine Stitch

Alice Kettle, Jane McKeating

ISBN 10: 1350100927 / ISBN 13: 9781350100923

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB, 2018

About this Item

Machine Embroidery is hugely exciting in terms of its potential as acreative medium and is part of a flourishing creative industry both indesign and production. MMU hosts a specialist embroidery department,which has been instrumental in artistic and educational innovations in this area since the 1960s. The lecturers,graduates and students have remarkable expertise in machine embroidery,and MMU is home to a rich and unique archive of machines, samples andartwork, both historical and contemporary. This book will celebratethis archive, as well as providing the only definitive record (andexploring the potential) of the huge number of machines currently inuse from the traditional Irish Embroidery machine to the new generationof computerised sewing machines. The book will demonstrate how keymachines can be applied to the artistic, industrial and domestic practice, and shows machine embroiderers how to combine techniques anddevelop their ideas using machine embroidery. Each contributor givestheir own individual perspective on machine stitch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Machine Stitch
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, GB
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350100927
• ISBN 13: 9781350100923
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 816 grams

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Synopsis

Machine Embroidery is hugely exciting in terms of its potential as a
creative medium and is part of a flourishing creative industry both in
design and production. MMU hosts a specialist embroidery department,
which has been instrumental in artistic and

educational innovations in this area since the 1960s. The lecturers,
graduates and students have remarkable expertise in machine embroidery,
and MMU is home to a rich and unique archive of machines, samples and
artwork, both historical and contemporary. This book will celebrate
this archive, as well as providing the only definitive record (and
exploring the potential) of the huge number of machines currently in
use from the traditional Irish Embroidery machine to the new generation
of computerised sewing machines. The book will demonstrate how key
machines can be applied to the artistic, industrial and domestic practice, and shows machine embroiderers how to combine techniques and
develop their ideas using machine embroidery. Each contributor gives
their own individual perspective on machine stitch.

About the Authors

Alice Kettle is Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is co-author of Machine Stitch Perspectives with Jane McKeating (A&C Black, 2010) Hand Stitch Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Collaboration Through Craft (Bloomsbury, 2013) with Dr Amanda Ravetz and Helen Felcey. She is a practising artist with work in international collections including the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, The Crafts Council of Great Britain, Museums in Riga, MAIO in Turin, and the Belger Collection Kansas City, USA.

Jane McKeating is Associate Head of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is a key figure in the embroidery and textiles fields and was a prize winner at 2008's 'Art of the Stitch' International Open Exhibition.