Handsewn: The Essential Techniques for Tailoring and Embellishment - Hardcover

Rowan, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596687568 ISBN 13: 9781596687561

Publisher: Interweave Pr, 2013

Synopsis

Take handsewing to the next level!

Sewists are developing increasing interest in heritage handsewing techniques that add beautiful or couturelike finishing touches to the final project. Small handfinished details can quickly become a testament to the style, creativity, and skill of the sewist.

Handsewn offers step-by-step instructions for a comprehensive collection of hand-finishing and embellishing techniques, including hems, edges, buttonholes, cuffs, tacking layers and linings, attaching or inserting fabric and trims, embroidery, quilting, applique, and cutwork, among others.

In addition to the stitch technique directory, a section at the beginning covers supplies, tips and tricks, and how to troubleshoot mistakes. The book also includes illustrations and templates of sample decorative motifs with advice for using, transferring, and combining motifs, as well as creating one's own.

Handsewn is an encyclopedic reference guide to all the hand-finishing techniques that elevate a good sewing project into something outstanding.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Rowan studied textile design at Camberwell School of Art and has been in love with textiles all her life. Starting a successful furnishing business, she also taught textile classes in the mid 1990s. She now teaches knitting and sewing workshops for Rowan Yarns and Liberty's and has her own Rowantree Workshop where she teaches textile crafts.

From Booklist

Even with the advent of “thinking” machines that sew, there is still time and space for stitching by hand, whether for purely functional or for decorative reasons. Rowan fully endorses hand stitching, as shown in her encyclopedic coverage of the craft. No mere reference tome, this book features all possible how-to’s, from tools and interfacing to hems and mistake correcting, but it also—and this will please beginners—details more than 70 stitches needed for these extraordinary activities. Each stitch is explained by level of difficulty, tools and materials needed, and best uses; and color step-by-step photographs augment the text. The last section (the fourth chapter) is strictly for inspiring readers’ imaginations: twentysomething pages of ready-to-trace patterns (flowers and leaves, butterflies and insects, the nursery, the seashore, and six other topics), along with instructions. --Barbara Jacobs

Edition details

• Publisher: Interweave Pr
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1596687568
• ISBN 13: 9781596687561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256