Stencilling Furniture, Home Accessories and Soft Furnishings

Decorate Your Home Using Stylish Stencil Designs - Over 40 Practical Projects, 400 Step-by-step Photographs, and Easy Instructions for All the Basic Techniques

Lucinda Ganderton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

128 Seiten

2016
Southwater (Verlag)
978-1-84476-378-8 (ISBN)

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Features over 30 creative projects for furniture, storage, soft furnishings and accessories. This book shows you how to decorate your home with beautiful stencil designs suitable for every room in the house. It includes more than 430 colour photographs that illustrate the projects at every stage so you can see what you are aiming to achieve.

Stencilling is a straightforward, effective and simple technique, and this book shows how to successfully decorate and personalize your home with inspirational designs, colours, shapes and motifs. The book begins with a comprehensive practical introduction explaining everything you need to know about stencilling techniques and equipment, including tracing and transferring designs, cutting stencils out with a craft knife and cutting mat, applying colours with stencil brushes, sponges and rollers, and lining up rows of repeated stencils for borders and friezes. The book then features over 30 fabulous stencilling projects showing you how to decorate tables, chairs, cabinets, cushions, curtains and blinds, table cloths, pillows and other home accessories. Projects include a subtle Dragonfly Curtain, a flamboyant Hawaiian Hibiscus Cabinet, and elegant Gilded Candles. Each project is beautifully illustrated and there are over 430 step-by-step colour photographs in total, plus an extensive templates section at the end of the book to help you create your stencils and achieve professional-looking designs.
This book is a fabulous source of simple and innovative ideas that will help you learn and enjoy the whole process of stencil-making and using stencils and which will allow you to transform your home with style.

Lucinda Ganderton was born and lives in London, where she studied fine art textiles at Goldsmiths College. She is experienced in a wide range of crafts and is the author of several books which cover a variety of techniques and themes, from applique and soft furnishings to embroidery stitches. Her work features regularly in magazines and website commissions and she has also appeared on television and video. Published books by Lucinda include: Cushions, Pillows and Throws (Ryland, Peters and Small); Vintage Fabric Style (Ryland, Peters and Small); Stencil Sourcebook (David & Charles); Stitch (Dorling Kindersley); The Encyclopedia of Needlecrafts (Lorenz Books); and Curtains and Blinds (Ryland, Peters and Small).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2016
Zusatzinfo	430+ colour photos
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	228 x 297 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Hausbau / Einrichten / Renovieren
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
ISBN-10	1-84476-378-1 / 1844763781
ISBN-13	978-1-84476-378-8 / 9781844763788
Zustand	Neuware