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Slow stitch : mindful and contemplative textile art / Claire Wellesley-Smith.

By: Wellesley-Smith, Claire [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Batsford, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 128 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849942997 (hardback); 1849942994 (hardback).Subject(s): Textile crafts | Keep learningDDC classification: 746
Contents:
What is the Slow Movement and how does it relate to textiles? -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Locality and localism -- Natural rhythms: cyclical and seasonal practice -- Limit setting: less can be more -- What's in the cupboard? Using what you have -- Collecting and sourcing materials -- New materials -- Upcycling and re-using old projects -- Slow-dyed threads using local colour -- The right tools: equipment suggestions -- Simple stitches: getting started with hand-stitch rhythms -- Universal traditions -- Kantha -- Mending revisited -- Japanese boro -- Piecing and patching -- Reflective and mindful practice -- Stitch journals - a regular practice -- Stitching, walking, mapping -- Stitching community: communal projects, wellbeing and health -- Mindfulness and making -- Seed to fabric projects -- The Manitoulin Circle Project -- Narratives through cloth.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Discover a new simpler, slower way to beautiful stitch textile art

The pleasures to be had from slowing down can be many, with connections to sustainability, simplicity, reflection, and tuning into traditional and other multicultural textile traditions.

Slow Stitch is a much-needed guide to adopting a less-is-more approach, valuing quality over quantity, and bringing a meaningful and thoughtful approach to textile practice.

Claire Wellesley-Smith introduces a range of ways in which you can slow your textile work down, including:

* Using simple techniques inspired by traditional practice (including hand-stitch rhythms)
* Reusing and re-inventing materials (reuse even old textile projects)
* Limiting your equipment
* Mending revisited (practical and decorative techniques)
* Project ideas and resources that help towards making a more sustainable textile practice

Richly illustrated throughout, and showcasing work from the best textile artists who work in this way, this is a truly inspirational book for those looking to
reconnect with their craft and to find a new way of working.

Includes index.

What is the Slow Movement and how does it relate to textiles? -- Sustainability and resource efficiency -- Locality and localism -- Natural rhythms: cyclical and seasonal practice -- Limit setting: less can be more -- What's in the cupboard? Using what you have -- Collecting and sourcing materials -- New materials -- Upcycling and re-using old projects -- Slow-dyed threads using local colour -- The right tools: equipment suggestions -- Simple stitches: getting started with hand-stitch rhythms -- Universal traditions -- Kantha -- Mending revisited -- Japanese boro -- Piecing and patching -- Reflective and mindful practice -- Stitch journals - a regular practice -- Stitching, walking, mapping -- Stitching community: communal projects, wellbeing and health -- Mindfulness and making -- Seed to fabric projects -- The Manitoulin Circle Project -- Narratives through cloth.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Claire Wellesley-Smith is a textile artist living and working in Yorkshire, UK. She teaches extensively, working in adult education, schools, community-based projects, museums and galleries. Her workshops involve sustainable stitch, repurposed cloth, and traditional techniques.