Reviews and Recommendations
Books on Creating Patterns Inspired by Nature
 Surfaces and Textures: A Visual Sourcebook, Polly O'Neill, Black 2008. 160 pages A splendidly rich book full of photographs to bring inspiration from nature. The author spent ten years collecting images from different countries, and organizing them into themes. Wonderful. |
An astonishingly rich, practical and honest book, that tells you exactly what to do to create beautiful effects. Additive, Resist, Subtractive techniques all covered. |
 Pattern, Colour and Form: Creative Approaches by Artists, Carolyn Genders, Black 2009. 160 pages A
beautiful and stimulating book both of the patterns that
exist in nature and of how to make use of them. |
 The Art of Manipulating Fabric, Collette Wolff, KP Books 1996 Techniques for 3-dimensional manipulation of fabric, both traditional and modern. |
 Experimental Textiles, Kim Thittichai, 2009 The latest in how to create textiles from cloth dolls to large installations, with inspiring images of work by major artists and practical guidance on techniques. |
 Transparency in Textiles, Dawn Thorne, Batsford 2009 A practical and beautiful book full of ideas on how to use every kind of material that permits transparency. |
A guide to painting many different kinds of natural textures from grass to glass to tree bark to fur. |
 Drawn to Stitch. Gwen Hedley. Batsford, 2010. Hedley guides the reader in combining line-drawing and embroidery, using paper new and recycled. |
A beautiful book full of wonderful natural patterns. |
Aboriginal Art, Wally Caruana, Strong traditional artworks from Australia. |
 Surfaces for Stitch: Plastics, Films and Fabrics. Gwen Hedley. Batsford, 2004. In this book, Hedley shows with clear instructions how to create unusual textiles on surfaces based on Tyvek film, polythene and other soft plastics, stencil film, puff paints, Softsculpt and adhesive webbing. |
 Islamic Art and Architecture: from Isfahan to the Taj Mahal, Henri Stierlin, Thames & Hudson, 2002 Splendid photographs of the majestic geometries of Islam, showing the use of stone and water, light and shade, curves and planes. |
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A bizarre and extraordinarily beautiful tour of ingenious word-patterns. |
A fascinating and beautiful book on the work of the linocut artist Angie Lewin, showing how she transforms her inspiration by nature - plant forms, coastal scenery, flotsam and jetsam - into strong and satisfying prints. |
Both the title and the author's name appear on the cover as 'Ambigrams' (Scott
Kim's 'Inversions'), |
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