Textile Creativity Through Nature

Internationally renowned textile artist Jeanette Appleton takes both budding and more experienced felters through a series of ideas for working with nature to nurture creativity, inspire, and make us more sustainable artists. Creating exciting felt surfaces that are both beautiful and versatile, she demonstrates how to capture the nuances of nature ¿ lines of sea, hedge and grass, cracks in parched earth, light on early-morning dew, frosted puddles ¿ and translate them into subtleties of texture and stitch. Exploring a variety of strategies for overcoming artists'' block, the book is packed with practical ideas for rewilding your creative practice: These include: changing the routes and patterns of your local environment to bring natural patterns into your own work; revisiting past diaries and sketchbooks to find lines, threads and stitches that lead the way forward; transforming recycled cloth by bonding memories, mixed-media and found objects into your work; making cuts and slits in