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The Complete Guide to Customising Your Clothes Rain Blanken

The Complete Guide to Customising Your Clothes By Rain Blanken

The Complete Guide to Customising Your Clothes by Rain Blanken


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The only book to cover customizing all of the essential garments and accessories from head to toe. This sourcebook gives you all the inspiration and practical advice you need to put your own unique designs on your clothing.

The Complete Guide to Customising Your Clothes Summary

The Complete Guide to Customising Your Clothes: Techniques & Tutorials for Personalising Your Wardrobe by Rain Blanken

The only book to cover customizing all of the essential garments and accessories from head to toe, The Complete Guide to Customizing Your Clothes breaks down the latest design trends for each fashion item, from dresses and skirts to t-shirts, shoes and bags by profiling designers in the field and showcasing the work of emerging talent. Hundreds of designs on fashion items are photographed in stunning detail to stimulate and inspire the budding designer, and are also illustrated together as part of complete looks that can be replicated or reworked.

Throughout the book the processes and techniques used to create each design are discussed alongside inspiring and beautiful photographs. Masterclasses on a fantastic range of techniques provide practical advice on how to apply your designs to clothing and accessories using screenprinting, embroidery and batik, fabric painting and stencilling. Emerging digital print technologies are also discussed, as are innovative ways of combining traditional fabrics with plastics and even electronics. A resource section acts as a quick guide to the properties of different fabric types and the techniques and materials that can be used with them. Gallery spreads are also included to showcase examples of each technique and interviews with inspiring artists and designers such as Jil Sander, Martin Margiela, NOKI and many more complete this fabulous resource.

The Complete Guide to Customising Your Clothes Reviews

A treasure trove of imaginative fashion creativity ... the perfect inspiration to personalise your clothes, or to create designs of your own. Highly Recommended! * Hot Brands, Cool Places *
This book feels like the author Rain Blanken has really put her heart and soul into it ... Overall it's a cracking book, very inspiring and a good addition to your crafting library ... Very cool indeed. * Betty Bee Vintage *

About Rain Blanken

Rain Blanken is a designer, seamstress, and writer specialising in upcycling, recycling and reinventing clothing. After learning the arts of sewing and crochet from her mother and grandmother, Rain spent most of her youth experimenting with different techniques of making and embellishing clothes. She went on to complete a degree in Fine Art and become a professional artist and seamstress. After making and selling her handmade clothing for many years, Rain is now the host of the New York Times Company About.com's DIY fashion site offering tutorials in handmade clothing jewellery and costume techniques. Her popular daily blog features handmade artists as well as her own fresh ideas and inspirations.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Basics
Why Customize?
The Search for Individuality
Sustainable Fashion
Upcycling
Research
Drawing
Generating Artworks
Placing Graphics

Chapter 2: Bleaching
Removing colour
Abstracts
Basic Patterns
Motifs and artworks
Practitioner interview with Paula Birch

Chapter 3: Colouring
Dyeing
Dip Dyeing and Over Dyeing
Tie Dying
Batik
Spraying
Practitioner Interview with Julie Verhoeven

Chapter 4: Printing
Placement or All Over Printing
Block Printing
Heat Transfer Printing
Digital Printing
Screen Printing
Pen and Ink
Practitioner Interview with Bobsmade

Chapter 5: Embellishment
Sequins
Beading and Buttons
Zips
Fringes
Studs
Toys and Trinkets
Stitching
Applique
Practitioner interview with Zoe Jeffery

Chapter 6: Deconstruction
Distressing
Cutting/slashing
Cutting then Tyeing
Patching
Practitioner interviews with NOKI, Martin Margiela, Jessica Ogden, Russell Sage
Chapter 7: Specialist Techniques
Needlepunch
Laser cutting
Embroidery
Embossing
Punching
Practitioner Interview with Jill Sander

Chapter 8: Gallery
Beading
Buttons
Needlepunch
Jackets
Laser cutting
Punching
Block printing
Dyeing



Additional information

GOR008418567
9781408152188
1408152185
The Complete Guide to Customising Your Clothes: Techniques & Tutorials for Personalising Your Wardrobe by Rain Blanken
Used - Like New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20120220
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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