"The Art of Manipulating Fabric" is an exceptional guide that teaches readers how to manipulate and create a variety of designs from a single piece of cloth. With over 350 diagrams, the author demonstrates sewing techniques such as gathering, pleating, tucking, and shirring that can produce a three-dimensional effect on fabrics. The book showcases stunning visual aids that display the different sculptured fabric surfaces that can take form as well as the variations both traditional and modern. Whether you're a textile artist, quilter, or home decor enthusiast, this book expands your design choices and creativity.

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The possibilities for three-dimensional manipulation of fabric - gathering, pleating, tucking, shirring, and quilting woven materials - are seemingly endless. To describe them all would be to describe the entire history of sewing. In "The Art of manipulating Fabric," Colette Wolff has set herself just this task, and she succeeds brilliantly. Working from the simplest possible form - a flat piece of cloth and a threaded needle - she categorizes all major dimensional techniques, show how they are related, and give examples of variations both traditional and modern. The result is an encyclopedia of techniques that resurface, reshape, restructure and reconstruct fabric. More than 350 diagrams support the extensive how-tos, organized into broad general categories, then specific sub-techniques Handsome photos galleries showcase the breathtaking possibilities in each technique and aid visual understanding by emphasizing the sculptured fabric surface with light and shadow Textile artists and quilters, as well as garment and home decor sewers, will expand their design horizons with the almost limitless effects that can be achieved

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