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Zusatztext For students who require more than 'pretty pictures', giving a deeper understanding of their discipline. Informationen zum Autor Alice Kettle is Professor of Textile Arts at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is co-author of Machine Stitch Perspectives with Jane McKeating (A&C Black, 2010) Hand Stitch Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Collaboration Through Craft (Bloomsbury, 2013) with Dr Amanda Ravetz and Helen Felcey. She is a practising artist with work in international collections including the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, The Crafts Council of Great Britain, Museums in Riga, MAIO in Turin, and the Belger Collection Kansas City, USA. Jane McKeating is Associate Head of Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She is a key figure in the embroidery and textiles fields and was a prize winner at 2008's 'Art of the Stitch' International Open Exhibition. Klappentext Machine Embroidery is hugely exciting in terms of its potential as a creative medium and is part of a flourishing creative industry both in design and production. MMU hosts a specialist embroidery department, which has been instrumental in artistic and educational innovations in this area since the 1960s. The lecturers, graduates and students have remarkable expertise in machine embroidery, and MMU is home to a rich and unique archive of machines, samples and artwork, both historical and contemporary. This book will celebrate this archive, as well as providing the only definitive record (and exploring the potential) of the huge number of machines currently in use from the traditional Irish Embroidery machine to the new generation of computerised sewing machines. The book will demonstrate how key machines can be applied to the artistic, industrial and domestic practice, and shows machine embroiderers how to combine techniques and develop their ideas using machine embroidery. Each contributor gives their own individual perspective on machine stitch. Vorwort This book will provide the only definitive record (and explores thepotential) of the huge number of machines currently in use from theonly remaining Schiffli and the traditional Irish Embroidery machine tothe new generation of computerised sewing machines. Zusammenfassung Machine Embroidery is hugely exciting in terms of its potential as acreative medium and is part of a flourishing creative industry both indesign and production. MMU hosts a specialist embroidery department,which has been instrumental in artistic and educational innovations in this area since the 1960s. The lecturers,graduates and students have remarkable expertise in machine embroidery,and MMU is home to a rich and unique archive of machines, samples andartwork, both historical and contemporary. This book will celebratethis archive, as well as providing the only definitive record (andexploring the potential) of the huge number of machines currently inuse from the traditional Irish Embroidery machine to the new generationof computerised sewing machines. The book will demonstrate how keymachines can be applied to the artistic, industrial and domestic practice, and shows machine embroiderers how to combine techniques anddevelop their ideas using machine embroidery. Each contributor givestheir own individual perspective on machine stitch. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction by Dr Jennifer Harris Foreword by Professor Anne Morrell Chapters The Pleasures of the Machine Stitched Mark by Judy Barry The Chimera of Embroidery by Dr Nigel Hurlstone The Bigger Picture by Alice Kettle An Emerging Image, Machine Stitching the Narrative by Jane McKeating Mixed Messages: an Exploration of Issue-based...
