Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

27.7.13

Book #2 - The Complete Guide to Designing and Printing Fabric


This is a book that I would love to have it on my bookshelf. (I am having the image on my future gigantic book shelf in my head..) Another book from Laurie Wisburn is Mastering the Art of Fabric Printing. She is a self-made fabric designer and a blogger from the states, check out her blog! The prints she created gladdens your day, obviously it is about pattern and mixing of colours so do not expect it to be MUJI like. I do very much appreciate the art of wood block printing in India, the patterned fabrics and papers are impressive, I could not help but bought 2 big pieces of table cloth and a scarf from an Indian shop owner in Singapore. They used natural dye so what I needed to do when I got home was to soak it in high salt concentration water overnight before washing it in the washing machine. 

The shop owner was extremely helpful, honest and offered really good price, it's on my list of must-go in Singapore now :-)

22.4.13

Book #1 - Scandinavian Dollhouse

Found Book: Scandinavian Design in the Doll's House

Saw this book today in a book store, life of being a doll might not be what we thought before: Having a huge mansion made with hardwood, Scandinavian designs filling up the whole place with plants that never die, just that they smell like plastic. 90% of the content was pictures of different doll houses' interior design, perhaps it should do a miniature and put on that man-doll's hands and title it "Dream Property", that makes sense. 

Frameweb talked about it long ago, if you want a look inside the book click here.