Cyanotype: Learn in a Weekend

With this beginner's guide you'll be making beautiful photographic blueprints in no time.

Photography in its purest form, cyanotype gives distinctive white-on-blue results that are simultaneously graphic, intricate and mysterious. Drawing on Victoria Glover's experience running workshops for beginners, this book will walk you through the process, step-by-step. Learn how to print onto a cushion cover, T-shirt, tote bag or lampshade. Or even take your creativity further, using long exposures to create the effect of an X-ray image. With this book you'll discover just how simple DIY cyanotype can be.

With accessible, stylish projects in a contemporary style, this book is aimed squarely at hip hobbyists who want to get started quickly, have fun and make something they'd be proud to share.

Details:

• Paperback
• 80 pages
• 8.5 x 6.7 inches

Victoria Glover is a textile designer and printmaker with a background in photography and surface pattern design. She specialises in the cyanotype technique and especially enjoys the unpredictability, serendipity and even frustrations with cyanotype printing and how the result is a unique, one of a kind design. Victoria works from her studio at home in Cheshire and shares Studio 10 at the wonderful Manchester Craft and Design Centre.