Category: Resources

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional


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Fiber and Textile Arts / Resources 1 comment

Lindsay Landis has published an article Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional which many textile artists will find helpful, as it is a tutorial that covers not only taking photos but editing images in Photoshop. Sorry removed the link as it was out of date and went nowhere! Follow …

The Phrase Finder


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How many times have you wondered where an expression came from or what it meant? The Phrase Finder looks to be a handy desktop resource that deserves bookmarking. This site provides information on the meanings and origins of English phrases, sayings, quotes and clichés. Just in case your inbox is …

Photoshop tutorial


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This tutorial Turn A Photo Into A Sketch For Making Coloring Books is for anyone who has Photoshop. I tried it out on some photos of flowers I have taken and with a bit of tinkering I was able to quickly produce a line drawing suitable for needlework. So if …

Checklists and Fabric Calculators


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Fiber and Textile Arts / Hand Embroidery / Resources

Coloured Floss Checklists for DMC, Coats, Anchor, Dimensions, and Bucilla flosses are provided by cyberstitchers.com which you can print out. On the same site a handy Floss conversion calculator is provided for you to convert floss codes from Bucilla, Dimensions, J & P Coats, Anchor, and DMC to any of …

Design course and notes online


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Art and Design / Resources

Charlotte Jirousek of Cornell University have provided a textbook for Art Design and Visual Thinking a course on design. The site includes articles on the design elements, application of media and notes on the fine art movements, and the decorative arts. This site has a number of strengths as it …