Alison Holt's machine embroidered art will amaze you! She renders nature scenes in photographic detail, the foam of breakers on a rocky shore, a verdant meadow, or dappled forest floor depicted only with paint, needle, and thread.
Holt guides artists through her process in over 200 pages, lushly illustrated.
Using photographs, she composes her scene, then paints it on silk. With straight and zig-zag stitches on her Bernina sewing machine, she creates layers of thread to detail the natural elements.
Her book explains every step, from composition and color, how to blend and shade with thread, and how she combines the two basic thread stitches to create flowers, leaves, trees, water, and other elements.
Holt guides you through her process in creating individual pieces, every step photographed and explained.
I was impressed by the detailed instructions. With study and practice, and easily obtained basic tools, readers should be able to create their own nature art. She is clearly a gifted teacher.
As a book of art, this is a pure delight. As a source of inspiration it is invaluable.
I received a free book from the publisher through Amazon Vine in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.
About Alison Holt
Alison Holt, a UK contemporary textile artist with a Fine Art Embroidery BA Hons degree from Goldsmiths College, London, specialising in freehand machine embroidery.
Using a basic Bernina sewing machine and just 2 stitches, straight stitch and zig-zag I make embroidered pictures of landscapes, seascapes, flowers and garden scenes, influenced by the Shropshire Wales border near Oswestry where I live and by my travels.
Alongside the 5 books on my style of threadpainting and an educational DVD, Creative Machine Embroidery, I offer a range of textile courses, workshops, demonstrations and lectures in the UK and abroad.
I work to commission and have experience of exhibiting regularly at the Chelsea Flower Show and other venues in the UK, France and Australia.
Machine Embroidered Art: Painting the Natural World with Needle & Thread
By Alison Holt
Paperback $31.95
Published by Search Press
ISBN 9781782217916
from the publisher
Table of Contents
Introduction
Materials & equipment
Planning an embroidery
Light
Colour
Creating backgrounds
Starting to stitch
Flowers and foliage
Seascapes
Trees and woodlands
Index
A showcase for textile artist Alison Holt’s exquisite machine embroideries, this book will teach you to ‘paint’ your surroundings with thread.
Use thread to paint the world around you with free-motion embroidery. Alongside new examples of Alison Holt’s exquisite and distinctive machine embroideries, this book collects together her teachings and techniques for machine-embroidering flowers, woodlands, landscapes and seascapes.
A huge range of techniques and ideas are clearly explained using step-by-step photographs, and demonstrated through a selection of inspiring projects.
Learn how to create landscapes and seascapes of your own, and find inspiration through numerous examples of Alison’s original work.
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