Discover your inner artist - and put your junk drawer to good use - in this practical guide to the exciting world of surface design. Learn 8 easy techniques: stamping, stenciling, random screenprinting, gelatin plate printing, deconstructed screenprinting, discharge printing, soy wax batik, and making rubbings. Then jump right in and start making your own gorgeous fabric!
Discover your inner artist - and put your junk drawer to good use - in this practical guide to the exciting world of surface design. Learn 8 easy techniques: stamping, stenciling, random screenprinting, gelatin plate printing, deconstructed screenprinting, discharge printing, soy wax batik, and making rubbings. Then jump right in and start making your own gorgeous fabric!
June 08
In Create Your Own Hand-printed Cloth, the fabrics are wonderful and inspiring, the instructions are easy to follow, and the ideas are abundant. Not only does Rayna teach readers the basics, she provides them with the information and tools needed to take their fabrics as far as creatively possible. Rayna draws on both 'standard' methods and new ones in her printing process. She also uses many materials that readers may have right at hand but wouldn't necessarily have thought to use in printing. With Rayna's lists of possible printing tools and the variety of printing techniques, readers are sure to find their way to wonderfully unique fabrics.
* Quilting Arts *Jan 09
What we have here is a fabulous work-shop-in-a-book about how to alter fabrics with paint, dyes, wax, and discharge agents Art quilter goddess and fellow New Jerseyan, Rayna Gillman uses a tool box filled with brayers, stamps, homemade prints, found objects, and more to make the fabric she uses in her creations. I don't know about you, but if I were to jump into creative lessons offered by Rayna, I'd call up a bunch of my amigas and set up one side of the sewing room for all of these playtime exercises and the other side of the room for the food. Once you dive into these techniques, you'll be committed for a while because the set-up and clean-up could be bigger than Guy Ritchie's divorce settlement. So, make a playdate out of it with your buds and get jiggy with it.. Should you but it? Totally! Sooner or later, most quilters want to stretch their creative wings and this book will jump start you on that flight plan.
* Quilter's Home *June 09
Rayna Gillman's fabric art pieces amaze the viewer with their complexity of layers and designs. In Create your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, Rayna shares her methods of stamping, stenciling and otherwise marking your fabric, using objects that can be found at hardware stores, garage sales, and even your own junk drawers. She explains screen-printing, gelatin plates, discharge, soy wax and much more. Surface design for fabric had never been more fun or more rewarding.
* Machine Quilting Unlimited *Rayna Gillman works in mixed media on fiber, using a variety of surface design, collage, and printmaking techniques to integrate text and images into her work.
She made her first scrap quilt in 1974, when she fell in love with an antique quilt she could not afford. Over the years, she began to print her own fabrics and became intrigued by the textures and design potential of such items as corrugated cardboard, construction fence, and kitchen tools. Today, using found objects from the house, the hardware store, and even the street, she paints, dyes, and discharges, working in layers to add complexity to her highly recognizable fabrics.
Noted for her instinctive sense of color and her improvisational approach to design, she encourages students to work spontaneously, to experiment, and to use the question what if? to guide them. She has taught hundreds of students not only to print their own fabrics but also to use those fabrics creatively in their quilts.
Rayna was a featured artist on the TV show Simply Quilts and has written for Quilting Arts Magazine. In addition, her work has been widely published. She was a juror for the national Art Quilts Lowell show and teaches internationally. Her fabric and quilts have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the country and are in private collections in the United States, France, and Belgium. You can see her quilts on the web at www.studio78.net and www.galleryfxv.com. She invites you to visit her blog at studio78notes.blogspot.com.