Paper, Metal & Stitch

by Maggie Grey and Jane Wild

If you’re a stitcher, crafter, scrapbooker, textile artist, or papermaker, you’ll go gaga over Paper, Metal & Stitch! Authors Maggie Grey and Jane Wild show you how to work wonders with paper and metal, and unexpectedly infuse elemental embroidery stitches to really rev up your projects. This book is divided into two easy-to-read sections, Paper and Metal, that describe textural methods, adding color, and embellishing with stitches. Readers are led through basic, texture-building steps to exciting finishing ideas for combining techniques, and using both paper and metal in new ways with a variety of media. Most of the techniques can be intermixed and combined, bringing together paper and metal and thread. Paper can be molded, formed, cut, torn, and stitched; metal adds a seductive gleam and new dimensions are explored using fine, soft, sheet metals, meshes, wires, and coils. Some special equipment is needed but most can be found in your workroom or kitchen along with materials ranging from tomato purée tubes to brown paper bags! You'll find lots of new ideas and innovative methods, from melting techniques for embossing powders to using paper with heat-reactive threads. The stunning four-color photos and clear illustrations make this book candy for the eyes and food for creativity.

Maggie Grey is an experienced teacher of embroidery who exhibits her work and teaches worldwide. A former editor of The World of Embroidery, Britain’s leading magazine on the subject, she is the author or coauthor of several books, including Raising the Surface with Machine Embroidery. Apart from writing books and teaching extensively, Maggie edits the innovative and influential web magazine Workshop on the Web. Maggie lives in Ferndown, Dorset, England.

Jane Wild is an artist, specializing in mixed media. She has a particular interest in paper and paper making, and enjoys taking an experimental approach. Her articles have been published in various magazines and her work has been shown widely in exhibitions. One of her pieces was selection for display at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum. Jane lives in Wimborne, Dorset, England.

Paperbound, 8½ x 10¾, 128 pages, 120 Photographs, 120 illustrations, ISBN 1-931499-97-7.