Books

 This book explores different types of spubounded textiles with materials such as Lutradur, Evolon, head-distressable tissue, Tyvek and Kunin. Wendy Cotterill outlines heating, distressing, fusing, and soldering techniques for which these spunbonded textiles are perfect. With additional techniques, including, image transfer, foiling, and stamping, you can achieve complex and layered effects that are unique to this material and sure to bring your mixed media projects to the next level.

This hands-on guide focuses on print as a means of getting color and pattern on fabric and embellishing and enhancing the design with stitch.

This great  book from Alysn explains and illustrates loads of creative techniques with metals and metal meshes.  Stitched, manipulated, embossed, distressed, transformed - the examples covered in this book will inspire you to think about metal in a completely new way.
 

Using the well-established methods and styles of the centuries-old handicraft, art quilts combine fabrics and other materials to create innovative, stunning, and contemporary results. Art Quilt Collection profiles several artists in the field-many of them award-winning-along with their creations, showing readers the step-by-step process by which scraps of fabric become vibrant works of art. Readers will be inspired to experiment with quilting techniques and create their own unique pieces.

This inspirational  book  for textile artists,  offers three- dimensional designs using the techniques of interweaving, looping, twining, knotting, netting, and coiling, in a variety of materials, from yarn to leather to plastic packing tape.