Simply Modern by Deanne Fitzpatrick, Hardcover, 9781771082167 | Buy online at The Nile
Departments
 Free Returns*

Simply Modern

Contemporary Designs for Hooked Rugs

Author: Deanne Fitzpatrick  

Hardcover

A companion for novice to advanced rug-hookers featuring tips, techniques, and step-by-step instructions for contemporary rug-hooking projects, from pillows to purses. Also includes tips for cultivating your own style, working with various materials, dying your own wool, framing ideas, and more.

Read more
$76.29
Or pay later with
Check delivery options
Hardcover

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Summary

A companion for novice to advanced rug-hookers featuring tips, techniques, and step-by-step instructions for contemporary rug-hooking projects, from pillows to purses. Also includes tips for cultivating your own style, working with various materials, dying your own wool, framing ideas, and more.

Read more

Description

With over two decades of experience as a rug-hooker, studio-owner, and teacher, celebrated fabric artist Deanne Fitzpatrick introduces readers to the possibilities of modern rug-hooking design. Rug-hookers of all levels will find Fitzpatrick's instructional narratives and step-by-step methods for creating everything from themed rugs to pillows to ornaments an accessible and inspirational introduction to the craft. Tips and techniques such as how to choose and dye your own materials, achieving texture and shape, transferring patterns, outlining and blending, finding inspiration, and cultivating your creative process to develop an authentic style are interspersed with passages on the author's artistic process. Features over 100 colour photographs of Fitzpatrick's own projects and techniques, providing readers with reference points for turning their own experiences into gorgeous rug-hooked art.

Read more

About the Author

Rug-hooking artist Deanne Fitzpatrick is renowned worldwide for her stunning rugs and patterns. Her work is in permanent exhibits at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, among others, and she has made frequent radio and television appearances. Deanne is also the author of East Coast Rug-hooking Designs and Hook Me a Story. She lives in Amherst, Nova Scotia.

Read more

More on this Book

With over two decades of experience as a rug-hooker, studio-owner, and teacher, celebrated fabric artist Deanne Fitzpatrick introduces readers to the possibilities of modern rug-hooking design.Rug-hookers of all levels will find Fitzpatrick's instructional narratives and step-by-step methods for creating everything from themed rugs to pillows to ornaments an accessible and inspirational introduction to the craft. Tips and techniques such as how to choose and dye your own materials, achieving texture and shape, transferring patterns, outlining and blending, finding inspiration, and cultivating your creative process to develop an authentic style are interspersed with passages on the author's artistic process.Features over 100 colour photographs of Fitzpatrick's own projects and techniques, providing readers with reference points for turning their own experiences into gorgeous rug-hooked art.

Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing (CN) | Nimbus Publishing
Published
7th April 2015
Pages
152
ISBN
9781771082167

Returns

This item is eligible for free returns within 30 days of delivery. See our returns policy for further details.

$76.29
Or pay later with
Check delivery options