Alysn Midgelow-Marsden shares her exciting and innovative ideas for combining fibres and stitching with various forms of metal, using both textile and mixed media techniques.

In this inspiring, practical book Alysn Midgelow-Marsden uses textile-based and mixed media techniques to create seven beautiful step-by-step projects. Discover a wide range of techniques including gilding, embossing, needle-felting, beading and appliqué, featuring various forms of metal, including shim, foil and woven fabric. Be inspired by the individual surfaces created, and by the developments which take the ideas further.
This is an invaluable resource for textile artists hungry for new ideas.

Alysn Midgelow-Marsden shows how to use both textile-based and mixed media techniques to create beautiful artworks using metal in the form of shim, foil and woven fabric alongside many other materials. She shares her expertise in an inspiring variety of techniques from free machine stitching to gilding, embossing, needle felting, beading, printing, appliqué, making stitched foil fabric and using dry decal transfer images.

There are seven beautiful projects to inspire and instruct textile artists everywhere, including a lampshade, bauble pods, decorative panels and a tablet cover. Artists can take inspiration from the individual surfaces that make up the pieces, the completed projects, and from the developments from each project, which have full, instructive captions. This is an invaluable resource for textile artists looking for new and beautiful ideas.

This book was previously published as part of the Textile Artist series.