Bøger af Tommye McClure Scanlin

Renowned expert in the field provides how-to and inspiration for designing your own tapestries. More than 60 detailed exercises, plus unique method for analyzing your design.

Ever since the original release of The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, it's been agreed that a creative daily practice transforms your making. But fiber artists--from knitters to weavers, quilters to embroiderers--experience making in a different way than other crafters. Here's a guide especially for them on starting, maintaining, and enjoying a purposeful daily practice while making an arresting, very personal artwork. Well-known fiber artist Tommye McClure Scanlin (author of the bestselling Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond) breaks it down into clear, doable steps. - Enables fiber crafters of any kind to start and successfully benefit from a personal daily practice. - Packed with practical ideas, in text and photos, for making a personal fiber art calendar, journal, or diary. - Dozens of prompts to ward off the largest challenge: feeling creatively "stuck." - Stories from more than 25 makers explain the benefits of daily practice, sharing inspiring photos of their finished "time capsule" pieces. - Fascinating facts and history, including why we humans have the urge to mark time visually. - Foreword by widely followed blogger and weaver Sarah Swett.

The Nature of Things weaves together a life full of happiness and sorrow. In these fourteen collected essays, Tommye McClure Scanlin reflects on her artistic journey and how crafting and life are interwoven, two threads that comprise a larger picture. Readers will find themselves lost in Scanlin's full-color tapestries and comforting writing style as they explore the natural fields and woods of southern Appalachia.A final part of the book gives an overview of tapestry weaving basics with diagrams and descriptions for setting up a simple pipe loom and weaving a small tapestry sampler. Glossary, simple pipe loom illustrations, and a resource list are included for reference.