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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • 1. Introduction:
    • Using this book
    • A personal view
  • 2. About Marks:
    • Introducing marks
    • Working with repeated marks
    • Considering marks
    • Characteristics of marks
    • Working with marks and words
    • Recurrent words
    • More about marks
  • 3. Observing, Recording, and Collecting Marks:
    • Developing awareness
    • The importance of a record
    • Observing marks
    • Recording marks
    • Collecting and storing marks
  • 4. Making Marks on Paper:
    • Paperwork techniques
    • Working with pens, pencils and crayons
    • Using resists
    • Types of printing
    • Assessing your paper works
  • 5. Making Stitch Marks:
    • Hand- and machine-stitched marks and lines
    • Choosing needles and threads
    • Hand-stitched marks
    • Machine-stitched marks
  • 6. Making It Real:
    • Inspiration
    • Using a sketchbook
    • Choosing a focus
    • Materials and equipment
    • Threads and fabrics
    • Sampling
    • Reference collection
    • Finishing
  • 7. Living a Creative Life:
    • Creative strategies
  • 8. Resources:
    • Materials
    • Equipment
    • Suppliers
    • Organizations
    • Acknowledgments
    • Bibliography
    • Picture Credits
    • INDEX

Title: Mark Making: Fresh Inspiration for Quilt and Fiber Artists
Author/Designer: Helen Parrott
Format/Publication Date: TPB:2012
Publisher: Interweave Press, Loveland, CO
Language: English
Page Count: 128
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 9781596688797

SUMMARY- This book travels where I would never have thought to go, so yay for expanded horizons, I guess. We have an aesthetic clashing of tastes here, so my opinion should be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. I'm not a big fan of what looks to me to be sloppy, and should rightfully be considered artistic. But I don't like the look of blanket stitching and soft sculpture where the seams are left showing either. I am typically not delighted by anything that could be described as "rustic." That should put this in perspective. There is creativity going on here, and she covers a lot of territory - it's just not for me.

I believe this was also published by Batsford Ltd(UK) in a hardcover edition as "Markmaking in Textile Art."