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Record, Map and Capture in Textile Art

Data Visualization In Cloth And Stitch

Author Jordan Cunliffe
Hardcover
$34.99 US
Rizzoli | Batsford
8.78"W x 11.15"H x 0.72"D   | 27 oz | 20 per carton
On sale Sep 01, 2022 | 128 Pages | 9781849947190
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A guide to the increasingly popular trend of transforming data into beautiful textile art.

This stylish and fascinating book from up-and-coming textile art star Jordan Cunliffe shows how raw data, maps and personal experience can be distilled into textile art, producing mesmerising works with deep meaning, whether obvious or hidden, and concentrating on the smaller, quieter moments that make up our lives.

Jordan explores the use of stitched data to tell stories, pinpoint special places on maps, convey secret messages, and record personal detail, for example daily walks or nightly sleep patterns. Her finished work is beautifully precise, including a long strip of fabric containing a stitch for every day of her life, a reimagination of a favourite childhood book in unreadable code, and pleasing beaded representations of secretly important documents.

Almost any aspect of your life can be represented in graph or map form, and here are many practical ways to achieve this, whether it's recording the colours of flowers on a favourite path to create your own unique palette, or encoding your most private thoughts in beaded morse code. This visually stunning book explores a new way of working and will help you explore a fresh new angle in your embroidery and textile work.

Illustrated with a wealth of examples of the author's own work as well as pieces from other data-focused artists from around the world, Record, Map and Capture in Textile Art proves beyond all doubt that data can be beautiful, and can inspire stunning works of stitched art.
Jordan Cunliffe is a textile artist and embroidery designer with a focus on data and storytelling, taking traditional textile techniques and pairing them with contemporary concepts. She is based in Colne, Lancashire and this is her first book.
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Introduction 6 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Materials 10 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Project 18

Data Visualization 22 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Bayeux Tapestry 27 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Linear Time 28 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sleep 32 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sleeping and Waking 34 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">I Could Sleep for a Week 36 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Overlapping Lives 38 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Laurie Frick 40 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: The Tempestry Project 44 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Olivia Johnson 48 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Ahree Lee 50 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Projects 52

Steganography 60 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Steganography in Wartime 64 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">22.3.2001: A Binary Beaded Diary 66 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Coded Alphabet 70 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Sam Meech 74 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Raw Color 76 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Holly Berry 78 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Project 80 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Algorithms 84 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Ada Lovelace 89 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Overlapping Number Series 90 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Mapping the Sky 94 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Richard McVetis 98 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Evelin Kasikov 100 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Channing Hansen 104 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Michelle Stephens 106 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Projects 108

Conclusion 116

Graph Paper 118

Binary Code Translator 123

Morse Code Translator 124

Contributing Artists 125

Index 126

Acknowledgements 128

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A guide to the increasingly popular trend of transforming data into beautiful textile art.

This stylish and fascinating book from up-and-coming textile art star Jordan Cunliffe shows how raw data, maps and personal experience can be distilled into textile art, producing mesmerising works with deep meaning, whether obvious or hidden, and concentrating on the smaller, quieter moments that make up our lives.

Jordan explores the use of stitched data to tell stories, pinpoint special places on maps, convey secret messages, and record personal detail, for example daily walks or nightly sleep patterns. Her finished work is beautifully precise, including a long strip of fabric containing a stitch for every day of her life, a reimagination of a favourite childhood book in unreadable code, and pleasing beaded representations of secretly important documents.

Almost any aspect of your life can be represented in graph or map form, and here are many practical ways to achieve this, whether it's recording the colours of flowers on a favourite path to create your own unique palette, or encoding your most private thoughts in beaded morse code. This visually stunning book explores a new way of working and will help you explore a fresh new angle in your embroidery and textile work.

Illustrated with a wealth of examples of the author's own work as well as pieces from other data-focused artists from around the world, Record, Map and Capture in Textile Art proves beyond all doubt that data can be beautiful, and can inspire stunning works of stitched art.

Author

Jordan Cunliffe is a textile artist and embroidery designer with a focus on data and storytelling, taking traditional textile techniques and pairing them with contemporary concepts. She is based in Colne, Lancashire and this is her first book.
Jordan Cunliffe View titles by Jordan Cunliffe

Table of Contents

Introduction 6 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Materials 10 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Project 18

Data Visualization 22 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">The Bayeux Tapestry 27 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Linear Time 28 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sleep 32 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Sleeping and Waking 34 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">I Could Sleep for a Week 36 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Overlapping Lives 38 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Laurie Frick 40 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: The Tempestry Project 44 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Olivia Johnson 48 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Ahree Lee 50 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Projects 52

Steganography 60 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Steganography in Wartime 64 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">22.3.2001: A Binary Beaded Diary 66 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Coded Alphabet 70 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Sam Meech 74 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Raw Color 76 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Holly Berry 78 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Project 80 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Algorithms 84 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Ada Lovelace 89 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Overlapping Number Series 90 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Mapping the Sky 94 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Richard McVetis 98 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Evelin Kasikov 100 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Channing Hansen 104 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Artist's Work: Michelle Stephens 106 <p style="padding-left: 30px;">DIY Projects 108

Conclusion 116

Graph Paper 118

Binary Code Translator 123

Morse Code Translator 124

Contributing Artists 125

Index 126

Acknowledgements 128

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