Hand-painted Textiles: A Practical Guide to the Art of Painting on Fabric

Been wanting to do this technique. It is a keeper. Speaks so much more than other books who dabble on about painting but offers info that talks about fabric painting in 2-3 pgs of part of a chapter.

Book has wonderful pictures and information.

Book is beautiful, well-illustrated, with lots of great project ideas. Very helpful list of suppliers in the bibliography at the end of the book. Very little information about fabric paints: various types of paints, and their applications, which I assumed would be included in the book.

Clearly describes different art projects.

This is such a fun and inspiring book! Lovely to look at. But ultimately frustrating because the author does not list specific products she has used.She writes, "For works painted on fabric I always use products that can be heat-set by being hot-ironed on the reverse...These are not dyes and inks that need to be steam-set or fixed with additives. I use a variety of different makes, all of which I mix together in a rather cavalier way."Ok, but I want to know exactly what you use! In the Suppliers section at the back of the book she lists Jacquard and Pebeo inks and paints for fabrics. I want specifics! Even perusing her website and blog I cannot find this information.The is not a "Practical Guide" without a list of products the author uses and how she uses them, especially when she uses them in a rather "cavalier" way.

I received an ARC copy of this from NetGalley.This book is an excellent idea and technique book. Sarah Campbell put a lot of thought and care into describing how to use a ton of different brushes and tools to create a gorgeous rainbow of painted fabrics. She uses simple bristle brushes and foam sponge brushes to make technicolor samplers that feel very attainable even for someone like me who doesn't consider themselves to have a lot of paint media talent.The other place that this book excels is giving project ideas for what to do with your fabric after you've painted it. There is an awesome kimono style jacket that would be well within a novice sewer's skill set.I was particularly excited to see the range of projects because I'm a public librarian who teaches a lot of crafty programming and there were at least three ideas in the book I could see running at my library. I'm excited to try out some of these techniques. Also the painted jacket in the book was GORGEOUS.The one place I think the book does fall a trifle short is in describing the inks and paints used. Campbell devotes perhaps a few pages to mentioning fabric inks versus fabric paints and that ink is more liquidity than paint and therefore spreads more easily, whereas paint is thicker and more opaque so ink can appear more luminous. I would have loved a section on what types of inks/paints to use on what fabrics with a few examples showing them on various fabrics. A pro and con list for X medium versus Y medium on Z fabric would have been really helpful. I think not having something like that will make brand new textile artists a little hesitant. I'm unafraid to make big messes so I'm just going to do a little research and dive right in.

The book cover is what drew me in and that is where it needed- I was so excited to get this book not very inspiring -no little mini prompts or even how toos- no real details so want the how and why- getting tired of seeing artists with mediocre content in book form because books are wonderful but soooo expensive-

TThis is a succinct guide to tools and techniques for painting on fabric. Campbell begins with a thorogh look at what brushes can do bristle brushes, foam brushes and the varieties of each. This is a clear invitation to spend time exploring the basics before flitting here and there with technique (yes, that’s a tendency of mine). Then she shows how adding simple masking can add to design and from there it’s on to other resists, stencils, and stamps. Beyond that she looks at pattern and gives examples of her own process in several projects. This book may not appeal to everyone. Some may find it too basic, some may want more guided exercises. I found new information and a good review of what I was already familiar with.

Teaching myself to paint designs on textiles

Sarah Campbell's wealth of experience of putting joyous colour and pattern onto cloth comes shining through in this book. She presents a range of techniques, exploring the possibilities of brush painting, block printing, stencils, and the elements of simple repeat patterns. The photographs are superb, and the instructions are clear and concise. This is as close as you can get to experiencing a workshop with Sarah - which I would also recommend! A beautiful book which should inspire lots of experimentation and successful results.

For such an expensive book I would have expected more developmental sharing, The doyenne of mark making offers little about the most important aspect of mark making, repeat patterning,Leaving out the most important aspect of textile creation and discussing mark making ideas which can be found elsewhere.Yes, the book show cases her own work beautifully and offers some creative ideas, but it takes the budding textile artist, who may want to move on with their work, no where in terms of development in my opinion.. I am quite cross.This was too conservative a book, allowing textile creation to remain a mystery, the main thing that textile aspirants want to know nowadays is how to create a piece of textile art that can go on to be printed even on short runs. This is where textile art is going. GrrrrrWe all want to digitally print hand painted work at some point, and this lends no advice on that at all as far as I can see and is the poorer for it, given that the artist is a commercial creative even a helpful short chapter on digital printing of artwork would have been helpful.

The book is packed with ideas and how to do the projects. Very pleased with my purchase.