Balloon HQ Featured Photographs

  Balloon HQ Featured Photographs: November Dance Floor Decor You may view Featured Photographs and information from past months here!Photograph supplied by Sandi Hankins This photograph shows Prom dance floor decor for a high school in Texas. Decor was created...

Essentials of textiles

AUTHOR: Joseph, Marjory L. TITLE: Essentials of textiles / Marjory L. Joseph. EDITION: 2d ed. PUBL.: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, FORMAT: x, 321 p., (4) leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. DATE: 1980 SUBJECT: Textile industry Textile fibers Textile...

The primary structures of fabrics

AUTHOR: Emery, Irene TITLE: The primary structures of fabrics : an illustrated classification / by Irene Emery. PUBL.: New York : Watson-Guptill Publications/Whitney Library of Design, FORMAT: xxvi, 341 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. DATE: 1995 SUBJECT: Textile...

A tubular fabric produced by spiral plaiting

A tubular fabric produced by a “circular” method but with parallel spokes A tubular fabric produced by spiral plaiting Here we describe a spiral plaiting method made popular by Patty and Royal Sorell. It is a bit faster than the circular method and is more...

Stuffing balloons into frameworks

Stuffing balloons into frameworks We can often save time and create a different kind of texture in our sculptures, by creating very open patterns with 260’s and then filling the holes with other balloons. What makes this fastest is that filling of holes...

Attack of the 50 foot demon

Attack of the 50 foot demon Balloon art – Japanese style Writeup and photos by Larry Moss Overview During the first week of December, 1998, I found myself in Tokyo, Japan leading a rather unusual, and rather challenging project. I spent a week training a team of...

Understanding proportion in design

Understanding proportion in design by Wynn Bell Heart and two Fantasy Clouds – Very good proportions of 4′ heart and the Fantasy Clouds to the 12′ ceiling, even with the table on a 2′ riser. Why is it that when one is cooking, getting all the...