Tapestry Design Basics and Beyond

Planning and Weaving with Confidence

By: TOMMYE MCCLURE SCANLIN

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Spiral Ringed Book | 29 June 2021

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Once ideas and images come to mind, the next step in weaving your tapestry - interpreting these into effective compositions - may be challenging.

Learn here, in ways that relate specifically to tapestry art, the design basics you need to make your best work. Renowned master weaver Scanlin offers 60 step-by-step "explorations" that lead you from understanding design concepts in your head to using them on your loom. Be inspired to explore "weavable" ways to manage line, shape, colour, texture, emphasis, balance, rhythm, and more for results that bring your tapestries to a new level.

In Part 1, dive into the fundamentals of design. Parts 2 and 3 hold explorations - exercises with a tapestry twist. Part 4 teaches ways to turn designs into cartoons. A resource treasure trove offers ideas for finishing tapestries (essential to the design's completeness), helpful templates, glossaries, and other core information to carry forward on your creative path.

About the Author

Renowned tapestry weaver and art educator Tommye McClure Scanlin has dedicated over four decades to teaching, including at the University of North Georgia and at craft schools including Arrowmont, John C. Campbell Folk School, and Penland School of Craft.

Industry Reviews

"Beautifully written with great clarity . . . Tapestry weavers, of all levels, will find themselves engrossed."
-- Susan Iverson, professor emerita, Department of Craft/Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University; former president, American Tapestry Alliance
"Clear explanations . . . scores of inspiring tapestries . . . Suggestions for finding design ideas, as well as developing, and assessing them, will be of value to all. Bravo!" -- Mary Lane, former executive director, American Tapestry Alliance
"Illustrated with stunning and varied examples . . . leaving the aspiring tapestry weaver to believe that anything is possible."
-- -Catharine Ellis, textile artist, coauthor of The Art and Science of Natural Dyes: Principles, Experiments, and Results
"Terrific . . . full of examples, images, exercises, techniques, resources, quotes. And, perhaps its greatest strength--her trust that readers can make their own choices." -- -Micala Sidore, tapestry artist, author of The Art Is the Cloth: How to Look at and Understand Tapestries

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