The Ultimate T-Shirt Book: Creating Your Own Unique Designs [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Deborah Morgenthal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 1999

T-shirts are commonly worn by most adults and children, and a plain white or coloured T-shirt is a blank canvas waiting to be turned into a wearable work of art. This book is full of ideas on how to paint, tie-dye, marble & batik any T-shirt.'

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From Library Journal

These two books might very well be used in conjunction. The Ultimate T-Shirt Book, while including a good deal of instructional material, is primarily a showcase of the possibilities of the T-shirt as a blank canvas for artisans working in batik, tie-dye, painting, marbling, stamping, and screen printing. Dyes & Paints is an excellent hands-on reference manual that should be in the collection of anyone working with fabric dyes. Large public libraries should consider both these books; academic libraries will want Nobel's.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Sterling; 1st edition (December 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579900178
• ISBN-13: 978-1579900175
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #483,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A picture book, April 16, 2000

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Cynthia Jane Kennedy - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate T-Shirt Book: Creating Your Own Unique Designs (Paperback)

This book is great for looking at great designs but hardly one to use to create a t-shirt. There is no in depth directions to make any of these t-shirts. I was interested in making new designs for my t-shirts (tie dye) and this book is totally useless. You really have to guess at what they are doing since there are not many directions to follow. For example: They tell you to use c-clamps to secure it between wood- well how is it positioned, what size wood ? Everything is very vague in the directions. They show only one picture of folding a t-shirt and that doesn't show you anything of how to position it. I have been tie dying for 10 years and hoped for more in depth directions to create new designs. I guess it is back to the drawing board for me. I wish I hadn't wasted my money on this book. I can go to many web sites to look at great designs if I just wanted a collection of pictures. Very disapointed in this one......

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas!, September 23, 2002

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This review is from: The Ultimate T-Shirt Book: Creating Your Own Unique Designs : Batik, Tie-Dye Painting, Marbling, Stamping, Screen Printing (Hardcover)

Are you one of those people who requires paint-by-number picture kits, and dotes on full step-by-step Martha-style craft instructions? If so, don't bother with this book. If, however, you are capable of finding information on basic techniques once you realize that you want to try them, the many different great ideas in this book are just the thing! I would never have thought to tie-BLEACH a garment before dyeing it, for wonderful lightening-bolt effects, for example. All I need is good pictures of good project ideas, with a little info on what types of techniques and materials to use; I don't need someone to hold my hand and murmur reassurances as I go along. I was amazed to see another review of this book dismissing it for doing what it does so well!

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome inspiration and plenty of info, but not for newbies, July 30, 2008

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Tracy Hoffmann (Downingtown, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate T-Shirt Book: Creating Your Own Unique Designs (Paperback)

This book gives you all the basic information you need to re-create the amazing shirts shown here. If you need such basic information as how to fold a T for tie-dyeing, you need another book. The inspiration here is worth twice the price of the book. Discharge dyeing and overdyeing are used to tremendous effect. This book puts t-shirt art on another level.