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Linen, Wool, Cotton: 25 Simple Projects To Sew With Natural Fabrics (2009)

by Akiko Mano(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1590306481 (ISBN13: 9781590306482)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Roost Books

review 1: As someone else said in their review this book is more aesthetically pleasing than something I am actually going to sew the patterns from.It feels clean, minimalist, and very zen. I love the color pallet and the hand drawn illustrations for the step by step. It's everything I want in a craft book except I probably wont actually make anything! It mostly made me want to make delicate tone on tone embroidered handkerchiefs.
review 2: I have always liked Shambala Publications, and every book I have read, so far, by their artsy imprint, Trumpeter Books (e.g. The Creative Family) I have liked.This book is no exception. I, like the author, love linen, cotton, and wool. They are ancient, ancient fabrics and sewing and working with them ties us back to ancient Egypt, ... morelong ago Scotland, and early America, respectively.The photos are very zen, very light, and airy. If a sewing book has poor photography, buy beware, say I!I love her little essays thrown in for fun:- Why I am attacted to antiques- White, Undyed, and Stamped- Inspiration from Foreign BooksThis is a book that is more pleasing to me on an aesthetic level than I book I am going to go out and buy bunches of linen, cotton, and wool fabric to make the projects with. Although I would like to try and make:- wool Mary Jane slippers- Parent and Child's Bags (cotton)I also like her notes on sewing, especially her use of a magnetic seam guide. Very clever!I also like her less

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