Wild Yarn: Creating hand-spun yarn from ethical fibres

Author:   Imogen Bright Moon
Publisher:   Batsford
ISBN:  

9781849949019


Pages:   128
Publication Date:   12 September 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Imogen Bright Moon
Publisher:   Batsford
Imprint:   Batsford
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 27.60cm
Weight:   0.360kg
ISBN:  

9781849949019


ISBN 10:   1849949018
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   12 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Sensory Craft; experiencing ethical fibres 2.  Painting with Wool; painterly approaches to wool blending 3.  Spinning Beauty; the principles of hand spinning 4. Yarn Finishing; water & weight 5. Curating & Collecting; how to curate a yarn collection 6. Project Ideas; working with hand spun yarn in contemporary crafts Bibliography Craftspeople, Artists, Organisations & Suppliers Acknowledgments Index Photography Credits

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‘This book is ideal for weavers, textile artists and anyone seduced by the joys of yarn.’ -- Craft Focus


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Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist. She creates large textile-based installations, using tapestry weaving and cloth weaving techniques, featuring painterly hand-blended-and-spun yarns. Her practice is founded in material processes, material ethics and heritage craft processes. Imogen is also a researcher, writer and textile-crafts historian. In 2022 she took part in the Gypsy Maker 5 project with the Romani Cultural & Arts Company / Arts Council Wales. She is represented by The New Craftsmen and exhibited at Collect at Somerset House in 2023. She can be found on Instagram @imogen.bright.moon and is based in Brighton.

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