Textile Portraits

People and Places in Textile Art

Anne Kelly

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Batsford
20 September 2023

Textile artworks; Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts

A creative and beautiful book packed with inspiring ideas to help you capture likenesses and explore personalities in stitch, from a well-loved textile artist.

Anne Kelly's evocative and nostalgic work often incorporates portraits - of friends, family, historical figures and even pets. Within these pages she shares her approach to textile portraiture, bringing in a wealth of different embroidery techniques, including hand and machine embroidery, quilting and applique, torender in cloth the nuances of facial expressions and the personalities of her subjects. The book covers:

Selfies at Home: making the perfect self-portrait in cloth.

Representation and Culture: how portraits have been used in textile art for cultural expression around the world.

Stylised Imagery: going beyond the traditional portrait into abstraction.

Place and Time: creating a sense of place with portraiture, sometimes incorporating photographs.

Story and Text: how to create a fuller narrative by deeply personal ephemeral and related imagery.

Pet Projects: immortalising your pets in your textile work.

Beautifully illustrated with stunning examples of her own work and that of intriguing textile artists who specialise in portraiture from around the world, this is the ideal book for embroiderers and textile artists who want to introduce this often tricky subject area into their work.

By: Anne Kelly
Imprint: Batsford
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 276mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 361g
ISBN: 9781849947534
ISBN 10: 1849947538
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 20 September 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 6 Chapter 1: Selfies at Home 8 Chapter 2: Representation and Culture 28 Chapter 3: Stylized Imagery 48 Chapter 4: Place and Time 68 Chapter 5: Narratives 86 Chapter 6: Pets and Animals 106 Conclusion 120 Featured Artists and Contributors 122 For Investigation 124 Further Reading 125 Suppliers 126 Acknowledgements 127 Index 128

Anne Kelly is a textile artist and tutor. She trained in Canada and the UK and now teaches and speaks to guilds and groups. Her work is exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions, including private collections in the UK and abroad, the Vatican Collection in Rome and at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. She was recently artist-in-residence at Sussex Prairies Garden in West Sussex and exhibited at the international World of Threads Festival and the Prague Patchwork Meeting. She is the co-author of Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford.

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Textile Portraits

People and Places in Textile Art

Anne Kelly

$47.99

Hardback

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