art quilts techniques
Textile art techniques please!?
Hello, I'm doing GCSE textile art and our second leg to give the board exams, I have to create something 3d as a cushion, bag, wall hanging or container. It has shown us examples of things to do and similar techniques (embroidery we use for our first piece. Roza, quilting, templates, but the handling I want to try some new techniques and maybe someone could give me some ideas for the actual final piece and what could be! 
That would be great, in fact .. @ That http://s875.photobucket.com/albums/ab320/bublabla/?action=view¤t=Photo0170.jpg a picture of my first piece (unit 1) when it was half finished ^ ^ Thank you soo muchly! x
A book that always gets my creativity: Colette Wolff Art Material Handling: You can see some of it here: # v = http://books.google.com/books?id=Yoj3gJJpP60C&printsec=frontcover&dq=art+of+manipulating+fabric&source=bl onepage & q = & f = false and if you'd like some aspirations of vision: http://www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/pattern-puzzle-bonkuk-koo http://www.fashion-incubator. com/archive/pattern_puzzle_collar_2 / http:// www.fashion-incubator.com/archive/japanese_pattern_books_2/ http://theardentthread.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/three-examples-of-indigo-shibori/ http://entwinements.com/ blog-MT3 / Shibori / our_garments / http://discovermagazine.com/photos/03-the-bizarre-and-brilliant-world-of-knitted-science
creating an art quilt – tutorial
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