TEXTILE TRAVELS

An evocative exploration of how travel local and far away can inform inspire and enhance textile art Travel has always featured heavily in textile art from artists travelling sketchbooks to large scale installations mapping coastal erosion or the effects of climate change In this book renowned textile artist Anne Kelly shows how to capture your travels past and present in stitch with practical techniques sitting alongside inspiring images She begins the book by discussing maps in textile art including their iconography as well as incorporating actual maps into textile work She then goes on to explore the influence of different cultures from across the globe on textile art From India and Peru to Scotland and Scandinavia the book shows how to harness traditional techniques fabrics motifs and colours for use in your own work The chapter Stopping Places captures the moments in time on a journey that can be distilled remembered and documented to create stitched postcards sketchbooks and other pieces The final chapter Space and the Imagination explores the possibilities of space travel as a source of inspiration and covers inner space too with artists mapping their own emotional journeys Including a wealth of practical tricks and techniques