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Radiant landscapes : transform tiled colors & textures into dramatic quilts / Gloria Loughman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lafayette, CA : C&T Pub., c2013.Description: 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781607056300 (Paperback) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • TT835 .L696 2013
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 746.46 LOU 1 Available T00605137
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Light not only catches the eye, it can transform your work into something truly magical. With four inspiring projects to get you started, world-renowned quilt artist Gloria Loughman shows you how to bring light into your quilts to set a mood. You'll learn how to create your own landscape quilt with her easy-to-master techniques, including fusible tiling, invisible machine appliqué, free-motion stitching, plus fabric dyeing and painting. She also shares the important design principles behind perspective, composition, colour, and focal points.

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Publishers Weekly Review

Loughman tiles while others toil. Tiles, in geometric shapes cut from fabric, are to the quilter what tesserae are to mosaicists. The tiles add background and movement, color and light. Loughman echoes elements of impressionist and pointillist art by manipulating light on quilts as Cezanne and Seurat did with small brush strokes on canvas. "Tiling large areas of your quilts," she writes, "allows you, in some ways, to follow in these master painters' footsteps." By playing with light and color, she designs additional dimensions to quilted landscapes, thereby creating smashing results. Her instruction book does not begin with the tiles, however: she starts with design; teaches color and value and hue; and considers fabric selection, including a chapter on customizing fabric through dyeing and painting. After explaining how to make, place, and stitch down the tiles, Loughman works through construction of four landscape projects. These projects are sophisticated, certainly more dramatic than her writing, which borders on the banal. Loughman's book is made more beautiful to look at by her husband's vacation photography. (Feb.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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