This Felting Dictionary explains some of the terms associated with felting. The same site houses a partly illustrated hat dictionary which would be of interest to costumers milliners. Hat Shapers has also published pages of old advertisements from hat retailers. Many crazy quilters will find these a great visual source …
Anyone reading yesterdays post will realise that in the stitching class I have students exploring the notion of points. In my class used Pointilism as an example of works based on point. Yesterday Nan of What boggles my Mind discovered the Pointilism Practice Page it is an educational interactive site …
A selection of colouring pages on Art, History, Religion are available on the on the Best of Kids site. These images can easily be adapted for needlework and embroidery projects. There are famous paintings, historical images and images drawn from mythology such as dragons, fairies, mermaids and unicorns. Thanks for …
Mark Boulton has written 2 articles in a series titled Five Simple Steps to designing with colour. The series is aimed at web designers but much of what he says can be applied to textile design. The first article covers working with tone and the second part covers colour terminology …
Celestial seasonings (the people who produce tea) have published some wonderful colouring pages that can be easily adapted for embroidery. Thanks for the link goes to Shay Toner who dropped me an email about it.
Selling crafts online is a series of 15 articles covering such topics as, photographing your wares, describing the product, shipping methods, and then goes on to examine a number of options for selling crafts online. The series then examines various websites against a set of criteria. Since the author is …
My post yesterday provoked a few comments one of which came Virginia Burnett pointing out that people think textiles should be functional. I agree this is a commonly held belief but it is one that comes from a single cultural viewpoint even if it is a dominant one! We live …
