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Textile Portraits

People and Places in Textile Arts

Anne Kelly

Description

Anne Kelly's evocative and nostalgic work often incorporates portraits – of friends, family, historical figures and even pets. Here she shares her approach to textile portraiture, bringing in a wealth of different embroidery techniques, including hand and machine embroidery, quilting and appliqué, to render in cloth the nuances of facial expressions and the personalities of her subjects. The book covers:

Selfies at Home: making the perfect self-portrait in cloth
Representation and Culture: how portraits have been used in textile art for cultural expression around the world
Stylised Imagery: going beyond the traditional portrait into abstraction
Place and Time: creating a sense of place with portraiture, sometimes incorporating photographs
Story and Text: how to create a fuller narrative by deeply personal ephemeral and related imagery
Pet Projects: immortalising your pets in your textile work

Beautifully illustrated with stunning examples of her own work and that of intriguing textile artists who specialise in portraiture from around the world, this is the ideal book for embroiderers and textile artists who want to introduce this often tricky subject area into their work.