Embroiderers' Guild Bookshop - Inspiration

101 Celtic Beasts NEW!
Courtney Davis
Pub. David & Charles
Price £9.99 paperback

101 Celtic Borders NEW!
Courtney Davis
Pub. David & Charles
Price £9.99 paperback

4000 Alphabet & Letter Motifs - A Sourcebook with CD NEW!
Graham Leslie McCallum
Pub. Batsford
Price £16.99
Over 4000 motifs in book form and also on the accompanying CD - plus several hundred extra motifs just on the CD. Suitable for design work in any creative field, from embroidery to woodwork, tattoos to graphic design.

DSB 1. Art Nouveau Designs
Balchin, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 11. Art Deco Designs PB
Hill, E
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 12. Chinese Designs PB
Hill, E
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 13. Angels and Fairies
Balchin, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 14. Halloween Designs
Hill, E
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 15. Persian Designs
Greenwood, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 17. Oriental Flower Designs
Greenwood, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 18. Folk Art Designs
Greenwood, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 19. Celtic Knotwork Designs
Hill, E
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 2. Traditional Japanese Designs
Pinder, P
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 20. Classic Border Designs
Belchin, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 21. Mythical Creatures
Hill, E
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 22. Garden Flower Designs
Pinder, P
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 26. Wedding Designs
Griffin, S
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 28 Aztec Designs
Brown, P
Pub. A&C Black
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 3. Celtic Designs
Davis, C
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 30 Art Nouveau Borders and Patterns
Belchin, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 4. Flower Designs
Southan, M
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 5. Victorian Designs
Hill, E
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 6. Traditional Indian Designs
Pinder, P
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 7. Christmas Designs
Hill, E
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 8. Decorative Initials
Balchin, J
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB 9. Egyptian Designs PB
Pinder, P
Pub. Search Press
Price £4.95 paperback

DSB Celtic Borders & Motifs
Davies, L
Pub. A&C Black
Price £4.95 paperback

Finding Your Own Visual Language
Jane Dunnewold, Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan
Pub. Committed to Cloth
Price £18.50 spiral bound
A Practical Guide to Design & Composition

Pattern Design A Period Design Sourcebook NEW!
Sian Evans
Pub. Anova
Price £20.00 hardback
This has got to be one of the world's best collections of period designs brought together as an invaluable resource for designers of all kinds, from fabric, textile, wallpaper, stained glass, to graphic and fashion designers. This collection of over 300 designs covers wallpaper, textiles, furnishings, costume, tiles and ceramics. The designs range from medieval through renaissance and the 19th century right up to the 1950's. This is a truly beautiful book!

Pattern Motifs A Sourcebook NEW!
Graham Leslie McCallum
Pub. Batsford
Price £16.99 paperback
Available now! This book is virtually an encyclopedia of pattern motifs, including historical and regional styles. From the author of 4000 Flower and Plant Motifs and 4000 Animal, Bird and Fish Motifs.

Pattern Sourcebook - Nature. 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs NEW!
Shigeki Nakamura
Pub. Search Press
Price £10.99
The Patterns in Pattern Sourcebook:Nature represent the best of a Japanese aesthetic for transforming the naturally occurring phenomena around them into beautiful art and repeating patterns. The focus is on waves and clouds and the emotions these designs conjure up in viewers. The 250 patterns can also be found as JPEG and PSD files on an accompanying CD-ROM.

Pattern Sourcebook: Japanese Style - 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs NEW!
Shigeki Nakamura
Pub. Search Press
Price £10.99
The unique collections of pattern designs found in Pattern Sourcebook: Japanese Style captures Japan's heritage of traditional colour, characters and decorative designs passed down through the ages. The book offers a collection of 250 Japanese style decorative patterns accross sixty categories and provides examples in both print format and on a CD-ROM that includes the patterns in JPEG and PSD format.

Pattern Sourcebook: Japanese Style 2 - 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs NEW!
Shigeki Nakamura
Pub. Search Press
Price £10.99
The unique collections of pattern designs found in Pattern Sourcebook: Japanese Style 2 showcases the art and character of the peaceful Edo period (1615-1867) of Japanese history. The Edo culture is alive within each pattern and represents the atmosphere and vibrancy of a time past. A companion CD-ROM provides 250 high resolution patterns in JPEG and PSD format.

Pattern Sourcebook: Nature 2 - 250 Patterns for Projects and Designs NEW!
Shigeki Nakamura
Pub. Search Press
Price £10.99
The collections of patterns found in Pattern Sourcebook: Nature 2 presents a further study in the Japanese aesthetic of natural beauty as embodied in the phrase Kacho fugetsu or "flowers, birds, wind, and moon". The 250 patterns showcase the flexibity of these traditional patterns, yet even more possibilities exist with the addition of a companion CD-ROM that includes the patterns in JPEG and PSD format.

The Complete Book of Art Nouveau Designs NEW!
Judy Balchin
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99 paperback
A fantastic source book for anyone seeking inspiration for Art Nouveau projects and ideas. Over 250 line illustrations including simple ornate borders, frames, motifs, patterns and an alphabet. Stylised flowers and trees, beautiful birds and butterflies, faces and figures, fruit and much more.

The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design NEW!
Drusilla Cole
Pub. Laurence King Publishing Ltd
Price £19.95
This book is aimed at anyone with an interest in surface design and pattern whether they are students, hobbyists or professionals. 400 images from the last 100 years or so are presented with informative captions and ordered aesthetically. The images will be drawn from a wide variety of styles, art movements and countries of origin to give an overview of pattern design from the beginning of the last century to the present day. Images include fabric designs and wallpaper patterns primarily, plus some ceramic and other decorative patterns where appropriate. The patterns are chosen from a number of sources, including the archives of colleges, museums and private collections. An opening introduction discusses the predominant key themes that are relevant to the subject of pattern design.