Fiber and Textiles - On line Resources


Yes, this is not about yasmintoo store listings. Yes, I have to list three items tomorrow to keep up with my monthly goal.

Excuses, excuses, excuses. I teach a crafts class on Friday at an Adult Day Health Care Center. So Fridays are shot for the studio and yes, I know that means I should prepare two listings some other day of the week to have one item to list on Fridays. Next week will provide another opportunity to do this. 


Then it rained today and I photograph outdoors. So tomorrow I will shoot items, maybe even shoot all of the items for the week and have it done. 


Anyway, I emailed the editor at Valley Fiber Life to say that I would have an additional list of resources for her by the end of the week. (My week ends on Sunday and starts on Monday.) 


Since I seem to be in tutorial mode, I thought I would send my tutorial resource list for fiber, fabric and other things I find interesting, and also share the list with you. 


Fiber and Surface Textile Design Tutorials  

This list wanders all over the internet, and covers a variety of topics. The listings share one theme -  good, clear, informative instructions. 

Lynda.com 
Everything and anything related to learning computer software programs. A tremendous online resource, if you can learn via video. Call when setting up your account if you are only interested in using for one month, and a customer service representative will walk you through the process, otherwise the billing is ongoing. 
http://lynda.com

PrintCutSew.com
Tutorials on Silk Screening Fabric and More. Scroll down to the Tutorial Links. 
http://www.printcutsew.com/top-articles/

Block Printing Tutorial from Lizzie House.
http://lizzyhouse.typepad.com/lizzyhouse/2008/08/block-print-tutorial.html

Paula Burch – for just about any information you may want or need on dyeing fabric.
http://www.pburch.net/

Pro Chemical and Dyes – detailed instructions on using the products sold by Pro. 
http://www.prochemicalanddye.com/store/pages.php?pageid=3

A Beginners Guide to Digital Fabric Printing. I keep a printed copy by my computer when I’m creating digital designs. 
http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-tips/a-beginners-guide-to-digital-textile-printing/

 Mamma Made Designs - designing for digital printing. This tutorial was written for Spoonflower, but the basic information is valuable and can be used for submitting designs to professional digital fabric printers. 
http://blog.mammamadedesigns.com/archive/2008/06/11/spoonflower-fabric-development-series-ndash-part-1.aspx

Spyre Studios – How to Design a Hand Drawn Vector Pattern Using Pencil, Photoshop and Illustrator.
http://spyrestudios.com/hand-drawn-vector-pattern-tutorial/

Digital Textile Design is not a website. However, this book is a must have and goes along with the three listings above. 
Digital Textile Design 
Melanie Bowles and Ceri Isaac
Lawrence King Publishing, London, U.K., 2009

This is an excerpt from Digital Textile Design – a full tutorial on creating a digital plaid by Melanie Bowles.
http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/08/book_excerpt_digital_textile_d.html

Metallic Painting Effects by Vicki Welsh 
http://threecreativestudios.com/freeprojects/tom/metallicpainting_TOM.pdf

3 Creative Studios – Three artists collaborate to teach fiber and mixed media techniques.
http://threecreativestudios.com/

Joggles – “Everything for the textile, cloth doll and mixed media artist”
http://www.joggles.com/onlineclasses.htm

Entwinements – Karen Brito’s blog. Excellent tutorial on how Karen creates her Shibori Scarves.
http://entwinements.com/blog-mt3/2006/10/how_an_entwinements_scarf_is_made1.html

Galli Films 
A video arts and craft video production company. Many fiber topics available on DVD in the catalog. Galli offers production services for creating your own DVD. 
http://www.gallifilms.com/index09.html

Barbed Wire - Building A Silk Steamer. Works for Cotton, Linen and Ramie too. The Barbed Wire site by Barbara Heninger contains many tutorials on Silk Painting. The steamer tutorial is just one. 
http://www.barbwired.com/barbweb/silkpaint/steamer/steamer.html


See you the first of next week, have a wonderful weekend. 










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