Mary's Fabric Book Pages

Embroidered Flower

Mary is making a fabric stitched book, inspired by attending 

a Kings Lynn Embroiderers Guild workshop I taught.

She has been coming to The Art Room to learn 

different techniques to put in the book and more besides.

This flower was machine stitched onto calico 

and then the edge dye tipped.

The centre is dyed scrim and then hand embroidered

and beaded.

It is beautiful!

Book Page

Mary is creating an Embroidered Book.

Full of interesting creative techniques.

This page is a piece of dyed velvet, dyed scrim,

embroidery threads and beads.

It is an interesting contemporary drawn thread technique.

Making a stitch and pulling back the threads of the scrim,

stitching it into a circle revealing more of the 

velvet underneath.

French knots and beads are added to give it more detail.

See my piece HERE

PVA Paper Muslin Fabric

Jo wanted to make a cover for her sketchbook that she is taking away on holiday.

She wanted it to look unusual and be hard wearing.

Jo started with curtain lining ( the sort with the plastic backing).

This would give the first line of defence.

Then for the decorative finish.

Covering the fabric side in tissue paper applied with watered down PVA.

Then acrylic and procion dye mixed.

This was then allowed to dry completely. 

To make it look almost leather like it was given a coat

of tan boot polish.

Applied with a soft cloth and buffed.

Allow this to dry.

A gold gliding buff paste was then applied.

This was allowed to harden off and then

acylic wax brushed on for the final layer.

This stops any of the paints and polishes coming off 

and forms a waterproof coating.

Jo then made it into a book cover.

See the video on 'How to Cover a Book' on 

my Tech site HERE 

Accordion Book using Photo Transfer

Those that saw the post for Photo Transfer, saw the photos Laurie used to make this

Accordion Book. The photos are of her Mother, Aunt and Mother's Cousin.

See the 'Photo Transfer on Fabric', post HERE