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The art of manipulating fabric / Colette Wolff.

By: Wolff, Colette [author].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Radnor, Pennsylvania ; [New York] : Chilton Book Co. ; Interweave, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Description: viii, 311 pages : ilustrations ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780801984969 (paperback).Subject(s): Sewing | Fancy workDDC classification: 746.4
Contents:
Part one: Controlled crushing -- Gathering -- Shirring. Shirring -- Part two: Supplementary fullness -- Making ruffles -- Making flounces -- Making godets -- Part three: Systematic folding -- Pleating -- Smocking -- Tucking -- Part four: Filled reliefs -- Cording -- Quilting -- Stuffing -- Part five: Structured surfaces -- Using darts -- Part six: Mixed manipulations -- Combinations.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 646.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module -TEXT7001-Core reading. MTU Cork Module TEXT8002-Core reading. 00219216
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 646.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module TEXT8002- Core reading. 00218918
3 day loan MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 746.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module TEXT8002- Core reading. 00218920
General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 746.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00194433
General lending MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending 746.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00051128
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The possibilities for three-dimensional manipulation of fabric - gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials - are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing.

In The Art of manipulating Fabric , Colette Wolff has set herself just this task, and she succeeds brilliantly. Working from the simplest possible form - a flat piece of cloth and a threaded needle - she categorizes all major dimensional techniques, show how they are related, and give examples of variations both traditional and modern. The result is an encyclopedia of techniques that resurface, reshape, restructure and reconstruct fabric.

.More than 350 diagrams support the extensive how-tos, organized into broad general categories, then specific sub-techniques
.Handsome photos galleries showcase the breathtaking possibilities in each technique and aid visual understanding by emphasizing the sculptured fabric surface with light and shadow
.Textile artists and quilters, as well as garment and home decor sewers, will expand their design horizons with the almost limitless effects that can be achieved.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-302) and index.

Part one: Controlled crushing -- Gathering -- Shirring. Shirring -- Part two: Supplementary fullness -- Making ruffles -- Making flounces -- Making godets -- Part three: Systematic folding -- Pleating -- Smocking -- Tucking -- Part four: Filled reliefs -- Cording -- Quilting -- Stuffing -- Part five: Structured surfaces -- Using darts -- Part six: Mixed manipulations -- Combinations.

MTU Cork Module EDUC 9002 - Recommended reading.

MTU Cork Module TEXT8002- Core reading.

MTU Cork Module ARTS 7035 - Supplementary reading.

MTU CORK Module ARTS 7037 - Recommended reading.

MTU CORK Module ARTS 8014 - Recommended reading.

MTU Module ARTS 8021 - Recommended reading.

MTU CORK Module EDUC 8022 - Recommended reading.

MTU Cork Module ARTS 6020 - Recommended reading.

MTU Cork Module ARTS6021 - Recommended reading.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Colette Wolff, a self-described "stitcher," developed her passion for sewing, cloth dollmaking, soft sculpture, quilting, embroidery, garment making, and fabric manipulation to become a highly respected textile artist, designer, teacher and author. As the owner, operator and sole designer behind Platypus , a mail order business for patterns for original fabric dolls, toys, and quilts, Colette developed a reputation for perfection. Beginning in 1969, Colette designed new patterns, taught workshops, published articles in national crafts magazines, and showed her tapestries and sculptures in fiber art venues around the United States. In 1996, Colette's various endeavors came together when she created a "new vocabulary" of techniques related to the sculpted surface design inherent in fabric maneuvered with needle and thread with the publication of The Art of Manipulating Fabric , a manual of three-dimensional textile techniques. Colette Wolff died in 2020.