by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Primarily the warp, ‘the grain’ of weave that runs the length of the piece. All patterns should be cut running with the grain–the arrow printed on a paper pattern should line up along the vertical grain. A textile’s strength, fall, drape and...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Every fabric tells a story of some sort, and part of the fun is to detect it. Many printed or woven designs include symbols taken and adapted from a particular community or locality– and we find it’s often the motifs that we have known for a lifetime and...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
A washing process that tumbles cloth with abrasive stones to achieve a soft ‘river washed’ finish. Sand washing gives a similar effect....
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Before ordering any woven or printed fabric, stone or wallpaper, you must get a stock cutting of it. The cutting or sample book in which you will originally have seen the material will almost certainly have been made from an earlier batch of the material. Very often,...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
A paint finish of tone on tone tiny speckles achieved with the ends of a fat rounded brush, a stippling brush or large stencil brush. Stippled effects should be sophisticated and elegant with no sharp contrasts, and can be a deeper tone on a lighter one, vice versa,...
