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 Includes magazine articles

Book Promotion

2000 Pattern Combinations

A step-by-step guide to creating pattern

by Jane Callender

‘Pattern has made a terrific comeback in the last decade and its popularity shows no signs of abating. Pattern design is
booming in the craft, textile, fashion and graphic design worlds. This is a much-needed book on simple and more advanced
ways of creating pattern, with a plentiful source of colourful combinations that you can use to further your own creative work.

The simplest pattern is a repeat of a motif and the resulting pattern can be made more engaging in any number of ways.
Taking the reader through various pattern developments thoroughly, it shows how one motif can lead to inexhaustible
combinations. All these techniques are explained and illustrated, making the book an ideal way to learn about pattern
design basics as well as find an inspirational pattern'.
'This is a visually rich book that has applications for any kind of designer’

2000pc


Specifications
Published September 30th 2011
Batsford, Anova Books
RRP:£20
ISBN:9781849940078
336 pages
2000 illustrations
220 x 220 mm square format

Buy your signed copy here
UK £20.00 plus £5.00 p&p Ref: 1Bk/Pub
Overseas customers please get in touch first.
add to cart

Email Jane if the book is a gift for someone else or you would like a personalised signing.
jc@callishibori.co.uk

Signed copies are also available at Harleston Gallery,
39 The Thoroughfare, Harleston

'A must-have guide
to creating and developing your own professional and unique patterns,
whether you are working in craft, textiles, fashion or graphic design'


Whether you are working with simple squares or triangles or more complex
floral and animal designs, you can create beautiful patterns from a range
of source material.

Illustrated throughout with the author’s own inspirational pattern designs,
the book is packed with ideas for adapting and developing your patterns for
any medium, and will show you how to take your designs to the next level'.

The book includes a chapter devoted to patterning with stitched shibori
motifs which offers many insights into the technique.

'Jane Callender is an award-winning shibori artist and recognised shibori master
with a passion for pattern. After gaining a BA (hons) degree in printed textiles
her continued exploration of pattern-making led her to develop the shibori
work for which she is known'.

floral

Book Excerpts and Extracts

'Pattern can be as expressive as music, as transient as breeze, or as stern as granite;
it can lift the spirit or take it to a more sombre place'
                                                                                             

Book Reviews                                                                                            

Jane was delighted to learn that
"... this will be recommended as essential reading for textile students at
University for the Creative Arts, Farnham"

Selected as
Book of the Month
by Bromham Millers in their Autumn Bromham Millers' News quarterly.

'I have a copy of your book and it is brilliant!
I took it to show the students at Urchfont Manor and they were very impressed. 
It was the 'pattern' weekend and was so useful.'
Janet Crowther UK


Click on the image to take you through to the review by Anna Dolanyi of the Hungarian Quilters Guild


Articles                                                                                           

Indigo and the Tightening Thread
231 Autumn 2009

Originally requested and written for the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers.
To read, simply click on the image which will take you to a PDF file.
Please allow time for either links to upload.

 

'The time to keep faith arrives when the bundle is relinquished to the golden depths.

The options as to how this is done
depend on what is being dyed'.

 


In agreement with the Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers

 

The Intimate Stitch
October 2007

Video Podcast

This presentation was recorded by Maiwa at their 'Tradition and Revival'
Textile Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, on October 14 2007.
The podcast, a m4a file, has pictures and sound. To listen simply click on the image.

'Join master shibori artisit Jane Callender as she describes her
development and artistic influences'. 'Here is an evening full of
visual delights, tiny details and sudden insights - not to be missed'.

In agreement with Maiwa

 

  

Understanding Indigo - Indigo and Shibori Stitch Resist
March 2006

Originally requested by and written for Workshop on the Web.
To read, simply click on the image which will take you to a PDF file.
This may take a little while.

 

'This wonderful article is a detailed study of the process and ideology of
indigo dyeing by an expert in the field'.
The Editor


In agreement with Workshop on the Web

 

Introduction to Indigo and Shibori
March-April 2006

Originally requested by and written for the ICHF Show Guide Catalogue.
To read, simply click on the image which will take you to a PDF file.
This may take a little while.

 

'In the early 1800s there was a significant discovery
which transformed the world of textiles.'




In agreement with ICHF

 


Threaded Vessels - Mixed media constructions
Volumn 47 No 2 May 1996

Originally requested and written for The World of Embroidery magazine.
To read, simply click on the image which will take you to a PDF file.
This may take a little while.

 

'The unevenessof the rim emphasied the play of light on the gold threads.

As gold spoke of richness,
so indigo spoke of a dignified simplicity'.


In agreement with the Embroiderers Guild

 

 


 

 
  All images and designs are © Jane Callender. No reproduction allowed without express written permission.