Cyanotypes on Fabric

A blueprint on how to produce... Blueprints!

Buy it from the author here!

Ruth Brown

Including shipping to Europe: 42 USD incl. postage & packaging

Including shipping to USA, Asia, Australia and the rest of the world: 47.50 USD incl. postage & packaging

Read an extract from Cyanotypes on Fabric.

From AlternativePhotography.com

Cyanotypes on Fabric is a great resource for anyone doing just that - printing cyanotypes on fabric. It takes you through all the necessary steps, from choosing the right fabric, coating, printing and washing. It shows you how to use objects to create photograms and how to make a simple digital negative. Scattered throughout the books is also Ruth's own work - a variety of plant designs on fabric and the work of 4 other fabric designers. So, go ahead and start a new fabric project!

About the book:

The book has 96 pages in full color and includes chapters on:

• Preparing the fabric (smooth, textured and restricted area backgrounds)
• Making the prints, including photograms, digital negatives, manipulating the fabric and ‘putting it all together’.
• Exposure
• Processing
• So you don't want blue – toning, under-dyeing, over-dyeing and painting.
• Taking care of your cyanotypes.
• There are also appendices on health and safety, copyright and hardware/software as well as a list of suppliers and a bibliography.

Statement from Ruth Brown:

I'm delighted to be able to announce that my new book Cyanotypes on Fabric is now available! Cyanotyping is a simple process for producing subtle, detailed images on fabric. Prussian blue and white – calm, cool, classical and utterly beautiful. Mix this technique from the 1840s with natural leaves and flowers or with modern digital negatives, and perhaps some textile techniques, and you have a wide range of image making possibilities.

The book

• Printed: 96 pages, 8.50" x 11.00", perfect binding, full-color interior ink
• Copyright: © 2006 by Ruth Brown
• Language: English

About Ruth

Ruth has had a varied career starting in business administration, progressing through teaching IT, to computer network management and application development resulting in a total of almost 20 years working in IT.

Following a long illness Ruth left full-time IT work and developed a new career as a self-taught textile artist using a wide variety of techniques, including the cyanotype process, on fabric. This mixes her IT knowledge, in the form of digital negatives, with her textile work and has resulted in the latest element of her portfolio career, her first book, ‘Cyanotypes on Fabric’, which she also designed and published!  Her other business is web design, combining neatly her ‘techie’ past and artistic future.

She is currently working on her second book (having got the writing ‘bug’) ‘Digital Images on Fabric’.

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