Earth Friendly Fabric Design

WELCOME to the exciting world of colorful creations. This fabric design series is a compendium of designs and techniques for creating art on almost any kind of fabric. It is easy and fun for any experience level, especially for beginners! These ideas are based on earth-friendly pigments that you can use at home at your own kitchen table. No caustic substances are used. No special ventilation is needed. It's quick to set up and to play with the pigments and things from around your house. Dye and color the fabrics around you. Make real art for your walls. Color, recolor, or redesign curtains, table linens, old bed sheets, quilt fabrics, art fabrics, clothes, and thrift store finds. Your choices are only limited by your imagination. The colors you use are permanent and washable on any kind of fabric blends: cotton, polyester, or synthetic. They can also be used on leather, suede, lace, feathers, or trims. This book is for the home artist or for artists who choose to develop more technical skills from study and practice. Certain basic techniques are the foundation for more complex layers of color and methods of application. Later chapters show design techniques based on these foundational skills. You will soon begin to understand how much is possible with very simple tools and techniques. When you get to know your imagination and set it free you will find that it is UNLIMITED! This vast resource of creativity is inside everyone and blesses us all because it can produce the greatest gifts you give yourself and others.