Print with Collage & Stitch: Techniques for Mixed-Media Printmaking

The enthralling popularity of collagraphy is taking textile artists to new heights. Learn this popular new technique from the best when you explore collagraphy with embroidery teacher, Val Holmes. In her new book, Print with Collage and Stitch, Holmes shares everything you need to know about the exciting effects of combining almost endless permutations of collage, stitch, and print and how to incorporate these effects into your own stitched-textile work.

Included is invaluable and beautifully illustrated information on embroidered collagraphy plate-making, choosing the right printing surface, combining paper and fabric, embroidering onto prints, and how to work in a series. In addition to innovative collagraphy techniques, youll discover an in-depth look into monoprinting and incorporating common textile art techniques into serial monoprints.

In Print with Collage and Stitch, youll explore a simple and most fundamental mixed-media technique, popular for producing highly-sophisticated and complex-looking surface effects.

Val Holmes is a well-known teacher and embroiderer. She contributed a series of articles for Stitch magazine and is the author of numerous books, including Gardens in Embroidery, The Machine Embroiderers Workbook, The Encyclopedia of Machine Embroidery, Creative Recycling in Embroidery, and Broderie Machine.

Chapter 1 Making the plate

• Materials suitable for making the plate and for adding to the plate

• How to make a plate

• How to protect the plate for printing

Chapter 2 Introducing brodagraphy

• How to make a collagraphy plate using embroidery

Chapter 3 Printing from the plate without a press

Chapter 4 Printing with a press

• Different types of press that can be used

• Developing a print using different color and application techniques.

Chapter 5 Surfaces for print

• A look at different papers and fabrics suitable for printing

Chapter 6 Collagraphy for paper relief

Chapter 7 Embroidering the print

• Techniques for embroidery on paper to enhance the paper print

• Embroidery onto a textile print

• Printing onto textile surfaces that can be heated and distorted afterward

Chapter 8 The monotype

• Using some of the above techniques for serial monotypes

Conclusion • Exploiting prints in your work

Appendix: The press

• Different solutions for bought presses and suggestions for borrowing

• Clear plans and instructions for the construction of two different types of press

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