Textile Portraits

A creative and beautiful book packed with inspiring ideas to help you capture likenesses and explore personalities in stitch, from a well-loved textile artist. Anne Kelly''s evocative and nostalgic work often incorporates portraits ¿ of friends, family, historical figures and even pets. Within these pages she shares her approach to textile portraiture, bringing in a wealth of different embroidery techniques, including hand and machine embroidery, quilting and appliqu¿to render in cloth the nuances of facial expressions and the personalities of her subjects. The book covers: ¿ Selfies at Home: making the perfect self-portrait in cloth. ¿ Representation and Culture: how portraits have been used in textile art for cultural expression around the world. ¿ Stylised Imagery: going beyond the traditional portrait into abstraction. ¿ Place and Time: creating a sense of place with portraiture, sometimes incorporating photographs. ¿ Story and Text: how to create a fuller narrative by deeply perso