Woven Textiles - A Designer's Guide Book by Sharon Kearley (Hardcover)

Woven Textiles - A Designer's Guide Book by Sharon Kearley

Weaving is an age-old craft but it has boundless potential.  The beauty and joy of weaving a finished piece of cloth can be enhanced by creating your own designs and using the latest ideas and techniques.  This book explains to the novice, how to start weaving textiles, but also develops techniques for the more experienced so they can learn to appreciate colour, patterns and structures, and thereby design their own richly-textured cloth. 

As well as practical information on how to get started, Woven Textiles looks at design concepts and how to experiment with ideas, such as mark-making skills on paper and embroidery on fabric. 

It introduces new weave structures and suggests ways to explore colours and yarns. 

The author shares her passion for this craft in pages packed with inspiring ideas, exciting examples and lavish illustrations. Her own work is supported by that of other leading contemporary designers, making this book a visual treat.

Used in a very good - like New condition 

about the Author: 

Sharon graduated in 1995 from The London Institute, Chelsea School of Art, with a BA(Hons)Textiles Design and in 2019 with an MA Textiles from UCA, Farnham.  She investigates linear connections, sequence and repeat within a compositional space, applying minimal and focused use of colour, series, scale and multiples.

Her expertise in the field of Fashion, Textiles and Costume spans twenty-five years and she has worked nationally and internationally within the Film, Theatre and Television Industries; the infamous Big Breakfast and The Bigger Breakfast Show of the mid ninties; styling presenters Liza Tarbuck and Johnny Vaughn, Sara Cox and Dermot O'Leary. 

She has worked nationally and internationally as a Woven Textiles Artist and an experienced Lecturer, sharing her skills through exhibiting, discourse, writing, teaching and mentoring.   Sharon is a firm believer in dual professionalism, where education, community and making are deeply intertwined.  She has run her own professional textiles practice for the last fourteen years, a weaver for thirty. 

She lectures part time on the Foundation Diploma at Trowbridge College and is the Pathway Leader for Fashion, Textiles and Costume.  She has lectured at the London Metropolitan University and  Winchester School of Art on the BA and MA Textiles Design Courses, completed a number of residencies at universities, galleries and museums, and has secured funding to collaborate with many high-profile organisations pushing her passion for weave.

Her debut book ‘Woven Textiles-A Designer’s Guide,’ was published in 2014 by Crowood Press, is used as a teaching aid at Degree level in many reputable Art Schools.