The Textile Artist: Sculptural Art: A Practical Guide to Mixed Media Wire Sculpture

Part of the popular Textile Artist series, this book teaches the reader how to sculpt using wire; apply paper and fabrics to the frame, and decorate with embroidery stitch. Take your textile work to an impressive new level with wire sculpture in both two- and three-dimensions. The book explores a mixed media approach to creating 3D textile sculpture, showing you how to create contemporary mixed media artworks with this refreshingly different approach to embroidery. Learn to transform plain papers and fabrics through colour, texture and mark-making; including both free-machine embroidery and hand stitch, and then construct supporting wireframes with little more than pliers and lengths of wire. Combining colour, stitch, shape and texture, Priscilla Edwards shows you how to transform your fabric surfaces into beautiful, whimsical sculptures full of character, curiosity and charm. With her imaginative use of the needle and her love of retro vintage nostalgia, her inspirational work explores excitingly different ideas and ways of working. Priscilla’s contemporary mixed media artworks offer a refreshingly different approach to embroidery, taking stitch to an impressive new level within wire sculpture. Working both two- and three-dimensionally, Priscilla combines colour, stitch, shape and texture, layering to transform surfaces into beautiful, whimsical sculptures full of character, curiosity and charm. With her imaginative use of the needle and her love of retro vintage nostalgia, Priscilla has picked up on an enduring trend, exploring excitingly different ideas and pushing the boundaries with her original ways of working. The book explores a playful mixed media approach to creating 3D textile sculpture, using a variety of media to transform plain papers and fabrics through colour, texture and mark-making; including both free-machine embroidery and hand stitch. Paving the way for the reader to tackle the five projects that follow, which build in complexity.