Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Featuring new and exciting techniques on how to dissolve, melt, and distort fabric both before and after stitching, this guide explores the evolving and innovative materials that are introduced into the textile market and instructs fiber artists how to use them creatively and effectively. Whether dissolving, melting, punching, slashing, or distorting textiles, crafters can achieve fascinating effects using the handbook's easy-to-follow steps, design tips, and diagrams. The book's organization around three themes--stitch, dissolve, and distort--allows experienced embroiderers to easily incorporate fresh ideas into their favorite stitching styles.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• Part 1 Stitch
• Free machining (p. 10)
• Marks and stitches (p. 10)
• Using free machining for texture (p. 15)
• Free stitching with motifs or patterns (p. 17)
• Painted stitches (p. 19)
• Tone and texture (p. 22)
• Overlock or serger (p. 27)
• Pintucks (p. 33)
• Zigzag, utility, and built-in patterns (p. 36)
• Distorted stitches (p. 38)
• Part 2 Dissolve-Washing away
• Materials and methods (p. 48)
• Wash-away film and fabric (p. 52)
• Using motifs with water-soluble film (p. 58)
• Outlining motifs with cords (p. 63)
• Sticky soluble stabilizers (p. 65)
• Water-soluble paper (p. 67)
• Scrubbed paper napkins (p. 78)
• Combining the media (p. 81)
• Part 3 Distorting the fabric
• Materials and equipment (p. 86)
• Attacking the fabric (p. 86)
• Melting the fabric (p. 103)
• Shaping the fabric (p. 120)
• Suppliers (p. 126)
• Index (p. 128)