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| Everywhere you look, the look is Brunschwig. From grand rooms in the White House and the Palace of Versailles to romantic retreats in country cottages and seaside homes, Brunschwig & Fils fabrics, wall coverings, and furnishings are used to create timeless, personal, and beautiful interiors. |
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| | ISBN: 0821228595 Date Published on 4/14/2005 |
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| This revised edition of one of the most successful volumes in the Magic series offers the most up-to-date and practical information needed to decora te stylishly without a decorator. The practical techniques presented here, traditional and innovative, are easy to carry out and offer various ways of putting your personal stamp on everything. Color photos.
The best-selling guide to decorating with fabric, revised and updated with new photographs and techniques, including:
Transforming fabrics by layering, joining, pleating, stitching, adding edgings, and inserting borders.
Coloring fabrics by painting, patting, daubing, spattering, stenciling, tie-dye, and wax-resist.
Making roller, Roman, Austrian, and inverted-pleat shades.
Making lined and interlined curtains using pencil pleat, French pleat, box pleat, gathered, bunch, slot, scalloped, and goblet headings.
Draping and dressing sheers and curtains with swags and tails, tie-bands, cornices, and valances.
Making bed linen for a wide range of bed styles -- duvets, pillowcases, dust ruffles, and bedspreads.
Covering screens.
Making box, throw, and "hamburger" cushions.
Making table cloths.
Basic sewing techniques, from mitering corners to inserting zippers. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Fabric, declares the author, is "the most exciting element" in decorating a room. Leaf through her attractive book and you'll see why. A wide range of styles is embodied here, from the opulence of a Renaissance-style hallway adorned in red silk to the lushness of creamy cotton drapes puddled on the floor to the contemporary lines of smartly striped Roman blinds to the rustic charm of gingham curtains. Melanie Paine explains how to choose, combine, manipulate, and paint on fabrics, as well as how to choose a style for window dressing, beds and bedding, and fabric coverings for walls and furnishings and ceilings. Although step-by-step directions are provided throughout for many of the items (such as various types of blinds, curtains, and bed covers), this is not a basic instructional how-to book. The New Fabric Magic is most successful and appealing as an idea book, filled with wonderful ways to use fabric to make rooms come alive. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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| | ISBN: 0679725989 Date Published on 8/19/1989 |
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| Of all the materials we use to enhance our interiors, none is more pleasing to our senses than fabric. From nubby linens to silky sheers, Fabric: The Fired Earth Book of Natural Texture will lead you deep into the sensuous world of textiles. Designers Elizabeth Hilliard and Stafford Cliff urge the reader to look at decorating with a fresh eye, and their book is brimming with new ideas. Each chapter is organized by texture: Natural looks at cottons and knits; Luxurious explores suedes and velvets; Translucent covers sheers and lace. Also taking the reader through satins and metals, as well as embossed, quilted, and printed fabrics, the authors then move on to Color: Simple and Exotic, exploring important color themes and explaining dyeing techniques. Drawing on striking and unusual imagery from the world around us, and filled with exquisite design images, including contemporary interiors, this gorgeous book will forever change the way you think about fabric in your home.
This sumptuous, photo–laden guide invites the home decorator to look at fabrics in a new way, focusing particularly on texture and color as sources of inspiration.
This decorating book is filled with color pictures--some relevant, some not--and floating, almost dreamy prose. Though U.S. designers will probably not recognize the name "Fired Earth," this is the second book in a series that emulates the style and tone of this European decorating retailer. Ex-journalist Hilliard and her cohort (a refuge from Terence Conran's Habitat) delight in developing sensual associations with fabrics and pairing emotive words with textiles. Luxurious, then, means velvets, paisleys, and faux leather. Reflective equates to glass, satin, anything with metal. Don't expect instructions or even templates to consider. Instead, it's to be gazed at--again and again and again. Glossary appended. Barbara Jacobs Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Fabric makes a difference to our lives -- it brings comfort and warmth, it creates mood and decorative style, but above all, its delicious textures are the key to enriching our homes. Of all the wonderful materials we use to enhance and decorate our interiors, fabric brings the most joy to our senses. From rough, slubby linens or soft velvets to shimmering, sleek sheers or seductive satins, Fabric: The Fired Earth Book of Natural Texture will lead you deep into this wonderful world of sight and touch. Taking inspiration from physical and visual texture, and the vast range of fabrics available today, Elizabeth Hilliard and Stafford Cliff celebrate the decorative use of fabric. They urge us to use fabric in all its guises to transform our living spaces and our lives. Fabric is bursting with exciting new ideas for use in our homes.
Our journey into the world of fabric takes us through the extraordinary variety of texture and colour, with thought-provoking images of natural, cultural and everyday objects, as well as glorious photographs of inspirational interiors. The authoritative text covers the many different types of fabric available, their history and their use. Each chapter considers the evocative qualities of fabric, from the cottons and linens of Natural, the wools of Luxurious, the muslins of Transluscent, the taffetas of Reflective and the patterns and visual fabrics of Printed and Colour. An intriguing introduction awakens our senses, while a short section at the back assists with any basic practical queries. Drawing on unusual imagery from the world around us and inspiration from Fired Earth, the company that specializes in natural paints, fabrics and other home products, Fabric, with its engaging text, exquisite design and superb photographs, provokes us to look at fabric in a fresh way and will inspire us to rethink the way we use fabric within our homes. |
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| | ISBN: 1862053731 Date Published on 10/1/2002 |
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| Fabric is fashion meets interior design. Featuring the very latest trends in style, color, design, and technology, this is an extravagant and invaluable guide dedicated to the beauty and limitless applications of fabric in interior design. Each section describes the development of the featured fabric followed by a review of its contemporary variations. As well as traditional fabrics such as wool, cotton, silk, and linen, the newest synthetic fabrics are included - natural fibers mixed with polyester, nylon, and polyamides. With designer profiles focusing on established designers within the particular fields and comprehensive sourse directory, this truly is a unique and facinating book.
In this introduction to fiber and fabrics, Trocm‚ presents the history and production into fabric of wool, silk, cotton, linen, rayon, and synthetics; the narrative is accompanied by color photographs that show the fabrics' use in interior design. Lacking is a description of which fabrics are best for particular uses, especially in soft ouse. Well suited for professional, academic, and large interior design collections. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc. |
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| | ISBN: 1840004606 Date Published on 8/20/2001 |
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| I have several books so far about upholstery, but by far, this singer book is the best. The title is not misleading. It is about basics, but with it's common sense instructions and useful illustrations, the techniques demonstrated can be combined and used to reupholster many styles of furniture. If you are looking for a book to teach you about more advanced techniques, you will have to look elsewhere, but if you are just beginning, then I can't think of a better source to take fear out of your first project. Gave me the assurance that my project, sofa and love seat, could be done easily and have a professional look. Pictures and text make it easy to follow and apply the instructions. Suggested tools are a must for desired results.
Like the others in the Singer Reference Library series, this book is a step-by-step manual. The instructions are clear; the illustrations meaningful. Its title says it all: 'Upholstery Basics'-- from the ground up, so to speak. I have not done any projects yet, but am now not afraid to try. |
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| | ISBN: 0865733198 Date Published on 10/1/1997 |
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| Today's homeowners want their homes to be distinctive and stylish without hiring expensive decorators and designers - now they can create the look they want easily and inexpensively with this companion to the very popular Sew-It-Yourself Home Décor. With the same brilliant photography and easy to follow instructions for even more fabulous projects, sewers will easily create elegant window dressings, cushions, bedcovers, table linens and more.
This beautifully illustrated book presents simple, step-by-step instructions, as well as color photos and illustrations, for more than 50 home decor projects for every room in the house. The book includes a list of tools and materials needed to complete the projects, as well as instruction on basic sewing techniques, ensuring success for beginners as well as experts.
-50 easy-to-create, yet elegant home décor projects for every room -Step-by-step instructions, color photos and illustrations -Features a list of tools and materials needed
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| | ISBN: 0873498038 Date Published on 1/29/2005 |
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| Use fabric with confidence and flair! Take a look around your room, determine its style, and then begin a process of marvelous transformation. Each project here features an entire room, so you can see how to add a variety of soft details designed specifically for its specific form and function--and how to create a coherent and harmonious effect. The full range of soft furnishings is covered: curtains, pelmets, blinds, loose covers, cushions, and table and bed linen. Take the expert advice on choosing appropriate colors, patterns, and end patterns for the style you prefer. Among the interiors featured here--Cottage Bedrooms and Provençal Kitchens. And beautiful cased sheer curtains add a fresh, airy look to any room. Whatever décor you prefer, you'll find a unique blend of inspiration and practical advice. 128 pages (all in color), 9 3/4 x 9 3/4.
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| | ISBN: 0304350915 Date Published on 12/31/1998 |
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| | Making Pillows and Slipcovers: Cushions, Bolsters, Bean Bags and Chair Covers to Transform Your Home |
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| | ISBN: 184215379X Date Published on 3/25/2001 |
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| Anyone can make stylish cushions, bolsters, and accent pillows at a fraction of the cost of decorator versions with more than 20 inspirational designs in Waverly (R) at Home: Pillows, published by Meredith (R) Books.
Pillows in all shapes, sizes, colors, moods, and personalities have one thing in common- Waverly quality. 19 projects; 18 photographs; 140 illustrations. |
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| | ISBN: 0696212935 Date Published on 9/15/2001 |
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| Creating home decor with vintage tex tiles is the latest hot sewing trend, fueled by the resurgence of interest in simpler times and lifestyles. A source of inspiration, ideas and projects, this exciting new book shows how to locate, purchase, prepare, and assemble vintage textiles to create home decor that reflects these comforting times in a fresh, new way.
More than 25 projects range in complexity from simple to advanced, including handkerchief pillows, memory quilts, slipcovers, and an upholstered ottoman. Includes all patterns as well as a fantastic photo gallery of inspirational projects.
This book had some really nce ideas for old and vintage items--I have a lot of craft books, this is one of my favorites!
After seeing Samantha McNesby's designs in numerous crafting magazines over the years, I knew that I would enjoy her new book. It's very well written and has easy to follow directions. I highly recommend it to those who love to sew.
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| | ISBN: 0873495322 Date Published on 5/1/2003 |
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