Textile Landscape

Textile Landscapes demonstrates how to develop your approach to textile art with a focus on using found objects and paint and stitch on cloth and paper.

Cas explains how to exploit the contrast between the hands-on textural quality of working with fabrics and threads and the spontaneity and movement of brush marks to lend a painterly quality to your work.

She begins with the basics - keeping a sketchbook to generate ideas, painting and stitching on cloth and on paper, and working digitally.

Inspiring Landscapes looks at urban and urban space, the changing seasons and great landscapes as well as intimate spaces and travel diaries.

Painting and Marking with Cloth explains the practical aspects of painting and dyeing cloth and how to make connections between paint, print, dye, stencil, and stitch.

Stitch-scapes explores different forms of landscape, experimenting with photographs and prints, and how to translate those images using ink, stitch, abstract, and collage techniques. It also covers transforming the image using digital techniques.

On Closer Inspection focuses on using elements and details from the landscape and the environment as found objects and for research.

Finally, People and Place explores the relationship we have with the outdoors and the built environment, as well as personal interpretations of place.

The book includes artworks by the author that explore the UK, USA, and Australia, as well as works by other internationally renowned textile artists. It serves as a creative guide ideal for textile artists of all levels - students, teachers, and practising artists and makers - to create unique and beautiful work inspired by the world around us.