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The Fiberarts Book of Wearable Art

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I first ordered this book as a gift to myself after reading about it in "Threads Magazine". It has indeed been a gift I will use. The designs in this book are from 40 of America's top Wearable artists who share their insiders' secrets with the reader and give the directions to create your own masterpiece. There are many beautiful items in this book that I intend to make, or rather adapt from. I rarely like following someone's specific patterns when creating my wearable art, but I love to see new and exciting techniques and styles. I feel this book gives you some wonderful tools and suggestions. After all wearable art is something one of a kind that no one else could create but you! Buy this book and expand your own horizons!

For anyone who loves color, fabric or handcrafts, this book is like receiving a box of very fine chocolates. There are luscious, colorful and beautifully-textured pieces on every page to inspire your heart and hands. The artists' statements are much more interesting than in many books of this kind, offering interesting glimpses into the various artists' design processes, spiritualities, motivations, working practices and technical approaches. The photographs are clear, evocative and artful, and the graphic design is excellent. This book would be a very good resource--as a visual technique library or source of inspiration--for anyone who enjoys design, handcrafts, color or fiber. Excellent.

This book is a great inspiration of beautiful work. I enjoyed the mini bios along with the pictures of artists' work. Here are list of the following artist that I would like to mention:

Mike Kane & Steve Sells, Carter Smith on Shibori dyeing
Peggotty Christensen with devore technique
Catherine Bacon-collage
Laurie Schafer - appliqueing silk with a precise method
Jorie Johnson-Felting with wool manipulation
Jean Williams Cacicedo - reverse applique
Carol Lee Shanks-Woven Cloth

There are more artists included in this book along with information about the artists located at the back of the book.

There are two different camps in wearable art, the home sewer-crafter group and the artist group. This book DOES NOT COVER the home-sewer crafter group. IT DOES COVER those who want to become wearable artists, producing works fit for art galleries, art museums and major art to wear fashion shows.

This is NOT a project oriented book with pictures and instructions to take one through doing a particular project. There is no how-to aspect of this book.

What this book does do is show you the major art to wear work. Virtually all of this is imagined from the ground up, where the artist first tackles the making of the fabric and finally makes a design to showcase that fabric. The fabric comes first. These fabric treatments run the gamut too. Fabrics are dyed, painted, pleated, woven, refabricated, burned out, pieced, torn, etc.,
This is a formidable artistic undertaking in an of itself. After the fabric is created, an innovative design is used to best showcase the fabric on the model or on a wall.

The resulting clothing is not something that is worn day to day or in ordinary life. These are show stopping clothes which would only look right at a high end event.

The work is all beautiful.

I highly recommend this book.

Well done and photographed. But it's not a "sewing" book. I was looking for something with new sewing projects, but this was more a coffee table picture book. I'm not as much into embellishments.

The best collection of Wearable Art I have seen. Inspirational!!! This book has a permanent home in my library.