Manipulating fabric is a very creative way to embellish fabric. Fabric with three dimensional texture always looks interesting and can often look amazing.

The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Collette Wolff is one of my favorite books. This is not a “how-to” book, but instead an encyclopedia, or reference book, of modern and traditional techniques and ideas for manipulating and adding three dimensional texture to fabric.

This book was published quite some years ago, and like many books published around that era has stood the test of time and is on its way to being a classic of its kind.

Some of information assumes a certain level of knowledge and skill on the part of the reader, but step-by-step instructions are given for each of the techniques including diagrams and photos, and allows for you to picture “possibilities” of how these techniques can be incorporated into your own projects or style of work.

This book is a great resource and inspiration for lovers of textured fabric.

This post is part of the 30 Days of Titivations; a 30 day blogathon all about embellishing and embellishments.

You can find lots of free embellishment tutorials in the tutorials section of my blog which can be found here, and even more techniques can be found on my Titivations DVD. Please visit the Instructional DVD section of the store for full details.

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