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 enlarge | Author: Colette Wolff
Publisher: Chilton Book Company
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 7771
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 0801984963
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.2
EAN: 9780801984969
ASIN: 0801984963
Publication Date: October 1, 1996
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 Maybe for quilters, and people making drapes, NOT for seamtresses February 2, 2007
9 out of 22 found this review helpful
I found the instructions obtuse at best. I'm a costumer and I bought this book to develop some original fabric techniques to add to the otherworld flavor of my costumes. But even with years of sewing experiance I had difficulty with this book.
I already know how to do about 1/3 of the techniques and even for those I found the explanations odd. I actully thought that the way she described would make some things harder to do. For instance she goes on about how to avoid having the bobbin threads break when making a large heavy gather. To deal with this I find it simpler to use fishing line or invisable thread in the bobbin. She recommend several other more difficult means, but never mentions this simple one.
Also she seems to go into too much detail on some things an almost none on others. Prehaps English is not the authors first language. THen again she seems to think that a mathmatical formula is worth 1000 words.
There are some interesting ideas that some one working on a flat surface like a quilt might find useful, but I don't quilt so I don't really know. I just got this book today and I'm going to list to sell on Amazon this afternoon, I wasted my $20, don't you waste yours!
 A "must have" addition for fabric designers January 11, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is so full of ideas on manipulating fabric it will take you 10 years to absorb all the material. It took the author 10 years to write and compile samples for photography and it was worth it. I pick this book up over and over again. Just get it!
 The Art of Manipulating Fabric August 30, 2006
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I have been using and working with fabric for nearly 20 years and have still been able to learn some thing from this book it is easy to read and full of easy instructions that make using this so easy and to have such arange of effects all in the one book. Really fantastic
Amazing. Wow. Just "wow." February 25, 2006
37 out of 39 found this review helpful
Okay, I know next to nothing about sewing. I am a sewing Gumby. But my niece is an incredibly gifted fashion designer, and I have to constantly badger her to let me know if there is ANYTHING I can get for her, or ANY WAY I can help her. This book is one of the few things she has briefly mentioned in passing as something she might like. (I took that to mean something indispensable to the pursuit of her career as she is so shy to ask for assistance.) I had the book sent to my place rather than directly to her, just so I could see it, and my first reaction as a non-sewing type of person was "OH My Goodness, I had no IDEA they could do that with fabric!" I meant to send it to her as soon as I received it, but it was so fascinating, even as a non-seamstress, that I shamefully retarded the delivery to its rightful owner by at least a week. I took it to my friend's house so she could see it. I even showed it to my boyfriend (for whom absolutely NO craft manual could ever hold an interest), and he even exclaimed "My goodness, babe! I had no idea fabric could this! I have to say this is amazing..."
Okay, in all fairness, maybe he was humoring me. In any case, I sent it to my niece. I happened to be on the phone with my sister when it was delivered. She opened the book and started exclaiming, "Wow! How do they this?" To which I simply replied, "Well, they tell you how in the book."
If you like to sew and are beyond the point of making napkins and tablecloths (to which I aspire) this book is for you. It teaches you how to MANIPULATE fabrics. How to make them do what you want them to do.
And isn't that really what it's all about?
 Good for reference & inspiration, but...... September 27, 2005
19 out of 24 found this review helpful
I had researched this book at a local bookstore for a few days before purchasing it used on Amazon.com. The illustrations in this book had me inspired immediatly. However, applying the various applications can be difficult.Finding the how-to's (a bit vague at best) that accompany the pictures are very difficult.Good for reference/inspiration, poor for actual how-to.
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