Paper, Metal and Stitch: Creating Surfaces With Color And Texture

This timely project guide concentrates on two of the key materials being newly incorporated into textiles and fiber arts?paper and metal. Both media are covered in separate sections that describe the unique properties of each, as well as textural methods, adding color, and embellishing with stitches. Paper can be molded, formed, cut, torn, embossed, and stitched; metal adds a new gleam; and additional dimensions of the material are explored with soft sheet metals, meshes, wires, and coils. Concepts build through each section, starting with elemental embroidery and basic, texture-building steps, and moving to exciting finishing ideas for combining and mixing techniques for original and innovative results.

Maggie Grey is an experienced teacher of embroidery who teaches and exhibits her work worldwide. A former editor of The World of Embroidery, Britain?2s leading magazine on the subject, she is the author and coauthor of several books, including Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery. She also edits the innovative and influential web magazine Workshop on the Web (www.workshopontheweb.com). Jane Wild is an artist specializing in mixed media, with a particular interest in paper and paper making. Her articles have been published in various magazines and her work has been shown widely in exhibitions, including London?2s Victoria & Albert Museum.