In this beautifully photographed collection, images of signature works by admired fiber artists complement in-depth information on creating their unique felting effects. Highlighting more than 20 artists and numerous projects, including hats, capes, bags, slippers, jewelry, rugs, pillows, curtains, an ottoman, and a felted chess set, the book excites the advanced, beginner, and intermediate felter alike. A gallery section showcases other artists’ work and further sparks the imagination. The combination of images, ideas, and information make this book a must-have for feltmakers who want to deepen their repertoire of techniques, aspiring fiber artists seeking new directions for their work, and any reader wanting to be dazzled with breathtaking images of inventive artwork.
Carol Huber Cypher has lived in the Hudson Valley of New York State for her entire life. Fascinated with fiber arts since childhood (making her first friendship bracelet, feeling her first skein of angora yarn and weaving her first potholder) she has always had at least one project going at a time! Eager to share her joy and enthusiasm for crochet, beading, feltmaking and spinning, she taught workshops as her career and schedule permitted. In 2001 she concluded her career as a chef to pursue this career in creating and teaching beadwork and feltmaking.
Combining her two loves, she wrote HAND FELTED JEWELRY AND BEADS featuring 25 recipes for refined and beaded jewelry hand crafted of wool.
MASTERING BEADWORK: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO OFF-LOOM TECHNIQUES is a compilation of 63 projects that Carol has taught extensively over the years to give the reader a solid understanding of 16 bead stitching techniques. It serves as a text to beaders eager to learn more and as a cookbook for beaders wanting to whip up a new stitch.
Next, she selected one hand felted item from each of 19 feltmakers she admires, and wrote HOW WE FELT to share with the reader the tricks, methods and practices that those artists employ to achieve their particular results.
Last year she wrote a book on feltmaking for the Japanese craft market, published by Patchwork Tsushin, Ltd. and translated by Motoko Natsubori.
She enjoys traveling the world teaching workshops.
She is at work on another beading book. This one will feature innovative beadwork based on her adventures with existing stitches that have taken her and the beadwork off the beaded path.
