Creative Marbling on Fabric: A Guide to Making One-Of-A-Kind Fabrics [Paperback]

Judy Simmons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1999

Learn how to create exquisitely marbled fabrics, using 15 traditional patterns. Detailed instructions break down each pattern into easy-to-follow steps to help quilters and fabric lovers create artistic and elegant marbling effects.

· Seven step-by-step projects include a Falling Leaves quilt, silk scarf, and scalloped vest

· Includes directions for embellishing marbled fabrics with surface-design techniques, such as dyeing, painting, printing, and stamping

· Full-color pages are filled with inspiration for using marbling techniques in a variety of projects

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If you've ever admired the intricate marbled patterns on the endpapers of old books, you may be surprised at how readily this look adapts to fabric. With a relatively small investment in materials and a good dose of patience, anyone can learn the secrets of creating elaborate marbling on silk, cotton, rayon, polyester, sheers, even ultra suede and tissue lamé. Filled with good instructions and helpful color photos, this guide explains all the basics and shows how to achieve 15 different marbling patterns and variations, plus advanced techniques like using resists to silhouette shapes in the marbling, adding dimension with rubber stamps, embellishing edges with scalloping, and making a three-color progression that allows for careful planning of a color scheme. To begin using your newly marbled fabrics, chose from among seven step-by-step projects, including vests, a pillow, and a quilt (there's also additional information on quilting marbled fabric). A brief gallery of some of the author's lovely wearables and quilts proves that marbled fabric lends itself perfectly to so much more than just scarves. --Amy Handy

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Martingale & Co Inc (August 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156477256X
• ISBN-13: 978-1564772565
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #290,325 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative Marbling on Fabric, February 1, 2000

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Carol Hale (NorCenTexas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Creative Marbling on Fabric: A Guide to Making One-Of-A-Kind Fabrics (Paperback)

This is a wonderful how-to book for the novice or advanced fabric "marbler." Easy to read, step-by -step instructions will help the beginner get set up, order supplies, prepare fabrics, mix colors and have a very successful time with this great fabric decorating technique. The advanced reader will see 15 beautiful color plates of marbling examples, and diagrams to reproduce them. In addition, I especially enjoyed reading the brief history of marbling. The Appendix and Resources section are very helpful. I plan to introduce this project to my students and this book will be an invaluable resource!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book you need!, January 30, 2004

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Suzi Soderlund Marbled-Arts.com (Maple Falls, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Marbling on Fabric: A Guide to Making One-Of-A-Kind Fabrics (Paperback)

I found this book several years ago, it is now page worn and full of paint smuges. Judy has all the easy to understand information that you need to marble on fabric. She walks you thru marbling step by step. And then provides some inspiration for project and a great resourse list on where to find supplies.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative Marbling on Fabric, February 26, 2008

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R. MacDonald (Singleton, Western Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creative Marbling on Fabric: A Guide to Making One-Of-A-Kind Fabrics (Paperback)

This book is a must. It got me going on silkscarves. The pictures are excellent and the author explains everything in detail, very easy to follow. I ended up teaching marbling and making trays for marbling for my students, being a teacher in Acrylic and Oil painting beforehand.

Unfortunately we are a bit handicapped in getting certain products here in Australia, which are easy to buy in the USA, but through trial and error I found some shortcuts and thanks to this book and 2 others, which I bought from Amazon, my scarves are in great demand.