Stitch, Cloth, Shimmer & Shine - Couverture rigide

Sarah Lawrence spent ten years teaching art and textiles in secondary schools in Yorkshire, before leaving to start her family. She gained distinctions in her City & Guilds in Creative Embroidery, and is now a freelance textile artist and tutor, continuing to develop her own work, exhibiting widely, giving talks, demonstrations and workshops and undertaking commissions. Recently she has done a postgraduate course to support all the work she has done over the last ten years with the elderly and disadvantaged young people. Sarah runs many courses on felting, embroidery, beading and surface construction for a diverse range of groups. Details can be found on her website www.sarah-lawrence.com. She also owns and runs craftynotions.com. She lives in Newark.

Sarah Lawrence uses mixed media, stitching and numerous innovative techniques to produce stunning textile art with the accent on shimmer and shine. Step by step photographs and clear instructions show how to make fabric from brown paper or by layering interlining with metal leaf, then demonstrate gilding techniques, using mica, hot fusing adhesives and metal, various colouring techniques, hand and machine stitching, free machine embroidery and creating unique embellishments. Beautiful finished pieces show the intricate, rich, bright and shiny results of the techniques used in various combinations, and then there are eleven sumptuous projects with full captions on the techniques used to produce them.