The Liftplan Connection; Designing for Dobby Looms With Photoshop® and Photoshop Elements®
This 168-page book, soft-cover and spiral bound, black and white text with many diagrams, further explores some of the design techniques first introduced in The Woven Pixel, which I co-authored in 2006 with Bhakti Ziek. The Liftplan Connection (or TLC for short) is not a replacement for The Woven Pixel, but is a standalone book. TLC includes more specific material on Photoshop Elements, as many dobby weavers choose Elements, not Photoshop, as their primary graphics program. TLC also includes material related to the use of network drafting with Photoshop. It includes chapters on creating threadings for graphics-based liftplans, building a weave library, designing liftplans with two or more weave structures, divided weaves, indexing colors and applying weaves, producing a loom-ready file in a format your weaving software and loom driver can understand, masking, overlays, using text in dobby designs, and other techniques usable on multi-shaft looms.
164 pages, black & white, spiral bound. $42 plus shipping and handling.
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Network Drafting: An Introduction
Network Drafting: An Introduction offers the designer/weaver an entrée into an exciting new world–the weaving of curved designs in many structures on the multishaft loom without jacquard devices, draw harnesses, or other loom modifications. Weavers with looms of eight or more shafts, with or without dobbies, will love this book. Includes 26 cut-and-paste templates for constructing your own lift plans. Think curves and break away from the block.
120 pages, black & white, spiral bound. $42 plus shipping and handling. Order online from www.lulu.com
The Woven Pixel: Designing for Jacquard and Dobby Looms Using Photoshop®
Co-authored with Bhakti Ziek. Everything you need to know about designing woven cloth using Photoshop. This book is intended for weavers, surface designers, graphic artists and others who wish to to have their work produced as woven cloth, whether on hand looms or through industrial production. Accompanying CD contains figures and illustrations in color as well as over 1400 downloadable weave structures and more than thirty full color photographs of actual weavings.
© 2006 Alice Schlein & Bhakti Ziek
362 pages, black & white, spiral bound. $165 plus shipping and handling
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