Embroiderers' Guild Bookshop - New Books Coming Soon

1980s Fashion Print NEW!
Marnie Fogg
Pub. Anova
Price £16.99 paperback
Fabric design in the 1980s could be both dazzingly ostentatious and subtly subversive. This fascinating sourcebook showcases the best of print from that decade of excess, from the breezy, surfing-influenced patterns used for sportswear to the more sophisticated appropriation of classical motifs and architectural detail, via vibrant florals and jungle prints, colourful geometric designs, and painterly, abstract swirls. With over 200 full-colour illustrations, including original artwork from designers as well as finished prints, 1980s Fashion Print is a wonderful overview of an intensely creative period for designers.

2000 colour combinations for graphic, textile and craft designers NEW!
Garth Lewis
Pub. Batsford
Price £19.99 paperback
2000 colour combinations is a rich source for anyone looking for inspiration and guidance on colour combinations. It contains * A huge range of combinations, with full readings for both CMYX and RGB. * Invaluable information on colour theory from hues, values and chroma to concepts such as simultaneous contrast and perceptual transparancy. * An inspirational series of colour palettes taken from photographs of the world around us. * A selection of work from cutting-edge designers and artists who explain the role of colour in their work and offer exciting new palettes.

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.

A-Z of Silk Ribbon Flowers NEW!
Ann Cox
Pub. Search Press
Price £19.99 hardback
A show case for Ann Cox's beautiful flower embroideries, worked in silk ribbon. Details instruction for 32 different designs with close up photography

African Inspirations In Embroidery NEW!
Mary Sleigh
Pub. Batsford
Price £14.99 paperback
Striking images of Africa are translated into textile art using embroidery, dyeing and mixed media in this beautifully illustrated book. From the dusky colours of the savannah to the traditional beadwork of African tribes, African Inspiration includes information on: the design process, colour, using shapes and patterns in designs, texture and surface embellishment, dyeing and mixed media. I really think this book is going to be a bestseller, it is so inspiring.

African Textiles NEW!
John Gillow
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £39.95 hardback
The first encyclopaedic, continent-wide survey of the textile traditions of Africa, lavishly illustrated throughout with hundreds of colour photographs and drawings.

American Quilts and Coverlets NEW!
Amelia Peck, Cynthia Schaffner & Elena Phipps
Pub. Yale
Price £22.50 hardback
This volume showcases the Met's collection of 151 American quilts and coverlets. Revised in 2007 to feature 32 new acquisitions, it chronicles the development of quilting in the USA from the 18th to the 20th centuries, providing a glimpse inside the lives of the makers and recipients as well as the quilt's emergence as a collectable work of art.

Art Doll Adventures NEW!
Lisa Li Hertzi
Pub. Quarry Books
Price £16.99 paperback
Exploring Projects and Processes through Cultural Traditions

Art Forms from the Ocean NEW!
Ernst Haeckel
Pub. Prestel
Price £15.50 paperback
Following on from the very successful Art Forms in Nature. Art Forms from the Ocean, The Radiolarian Atlas of 1862 by Ernst Haeckel contains 35 colour plates of meticulous drawings of the forms of microscopic marine organisms, depicting variations and progressions in natural forms. A fantastic inspiration for all design work.

Arts & Craft Needlepoint 25 Patterns & Projects now in paperback
Beth Russell
Pub. National Trust
Price £14.99 paperback
Aa exquisite collection of Beth Russell's designs based on patterns created by the well-loved Arts & Crafts Mouvement of the late nineteenth century. This book is both practicle and inspirational with many photographs taken in William Morris' former home, Red House. Those new to needlepoint will find the instructions simple and clear, while those who are more experienced can take these beautiful patterns and create their own unique interpretations.

Audrey Walker (DVD) BESTSELLER!
G Eccles and V Burnett
Pub. Odyssey Video
Price £20.00 DVD
This is the latest DVD in the Maker Profile series. It is a celebration of the great Audrey Walker from her beginnings as a student to her work as textile artist and teacher and features a record of the most recent large piece of work finished in 2009.

Bags of Inspiration NEW!
Hilary Bowen
Pub. Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
Price £12.99 paperback
15 elegant bags to make and embellish.

Beginners Guide to Needle Felting NEW!
Susanna Wallis
Pub. Search Press
Price £8.99 paperback
Susanna Wallis demonstrates how to create pictures and three-dimensional objects using wool and simple needle felting techniques. This title helps to learn how to make cards, pictures, jewellery, a bird and even a figure from wool. It includes step by step photographs. It features six projects.

Blackwork A new Approach NEW!
Brenda Day
Pub. Guild of Master Craftsman
Price £12.99 paperback
A new approach to Blackwork.

Bullion Stitch Embroidery from roses to wild flowers NEW!
Jenny Bradford
Pub. Sally Milner Publishing
Price £16.99 paperback
In this, her sixth book, Jenny Bradford features fresh applications for the ever popular bullion stitch. Using this stitch, as well as some knots and satin stitches, she has created many attractive designs in raised embroidery.

Celebration Transfers for Embroidery NEW!
Odile Bailloeul
Pub. Search Press
Price £12.99 paperback
This book provides festive patterns suitable for Christmas, Halloween, weddings, birthdays, Valentine's Day and more - the selection of patterns included will have something to suit everyone's taste and occasion. The designs can be adapted and used to create beautiful, original pieces, or they can be combined with borders and motifs for a unique look. In the first part of the book is a quick review of the main stitches used, and some useful tips and tricks, as well as embroidery suggestions - where to place the patterns in order to create a pleasing look, plus examples of suggested embroidery stitches. The transfer technique itself is quick and easy to follow - once the reader has chosen a pattern, they simply cut it out, place it on the fabric, set the iron on the cotton setting (no steam) and iron on the design. Amazing range of designs specifically for festivals and celebrations. The transfers are easy to use, and full instructions are provided in the book. The title provides expert guidance on embroidery stitches used, and laying out a design.

Changing Styles - The Eighteenth Century - One Hundred Years of Sampler Making NEW!
Witney Antiques
Pub. Witney Antiques
Price £15.00 paperback
The style of English samplers evolved slowly throughout the eighteenth entury. This catalogue charts this development from the emerging importance of women's literacy, the influence of moral excellence on young minds, the period of pastoral sampler making and the growth in needle arts practised in fashionable boarding school for yong ladies. Illustrated in full colour, with many previously unrecorded samplers, the catalogue contains a very rare and unique group of eight Scottish family samplers spanning a period of some forty years.

Classic and Modern Fabrics - the complete illustrated sourcebook NEW!
Janet Wilson
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £42.00 hardback
PUBLICATION DATE - APRIL 2010. More than 600 fabrics and 700 colour illustrations - this is an authoritative, accessible, and definitive guide to all the textiles available today. From the earliest weaves uncovered by archaeologists to today's machine produced, scientifically advanced fabrics, textiles have had a profound influence on civilization. This encyclopaedia is a definitive reference guide to all the major types of fabric in circulation today, from abbot cloth to zibeline. In clear and engaging language, the author describes and illustrates more than 600 of the most important examples, from classic tweeds to state-of-the-art nano fabrics. Each entry includes a brief definition, informative notes on structure, and a list of uses. More than 700 color illustrations show a fabric's weave, texture, and other defining characteristics at a glance, and helpful diagrams demonstrate the structure of the most important types of textiles. The book concentrates on textiles in current use, but it also covers obscure or obsolete terms that one might come across - and that might still have something to teach today's designers, manufacturers, and textile historians. Janet Wilson is an associate lecturer at the London College of Fashion. She has worked as a textile designer and continues to design fabrics on a freelance basis.

Colours from Nature - A Dyer's Handbook NEW!
Jenny Dean
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99 paperback
Colours from Nature describes in full detail how to prepare and use natural dyes on a variety of fibres to produce a wide range of colours, following safe and environmentally-friendly methods. The comprehensive recipe section gives instuctions for over 100 colours, using both traditional dyes such as indigo, madder and weld, and dyes from more common plants such as blackberry, rhubarb, oak and walnut.

Connecting Art to Stitch NEW!
Sandra Meech
Pub. Anova
Price £18.99 hardback
Improve your skills and unlock your creativity with this essential book for all textile artists and embroiderers, from beginners to accomplished practitioners. Award winning textile artist and teacher Sandra Meech takes you through a series of exercises that explore fine-art and design techniques and help you to make the vital connection between art and stitch. Illustrated throughout with stunning finished examples from leading textile artists.

Constructions NEW!
Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
Pub. Double Trouble
Price £7.50 paperback
Jan and Jean take a fresh look at structures and buildings as a source for inspiration and the creation of exciting textiles. They examine skyscrapers, graveyards, old houses, markets, ornate buildings and stairs. They use hand and machine stitching, embellishing (needle punch) machines, transfer paints, bonding and fusing, thermofax screens and manipulation of surfaces.

Contrasting Elements NEW!
Jae Maries
Pub. d4daisy
Price £17.00 paperback
Well respected textile artist Jae Maries shows how to bring dynamism into textile work with the use of contrast. Discover contrast by painting, cutting, knotting, knitting, weaving, wrapping and stitching.

Crazy Quilting the Complete Guide NEW!
J Marsha Michler
Pub. Krause
Price £20.00 hardback
Crazy Quilting tells you everything you need to know to create your own beautiful heirloom crazy quilts, Including: * 10 different methods for piecing * More than 100 embroidery stitches for ribbons, flosses and threads * Techniques for dyeing, painting, stamping, printing and embroidering on silk, cotton, rayon, wool and linen * Instructions for adding buttons, beads, tassels, cording and other dimensional embellishments * Tips for finishing your quilts

Creative Cloth Explorations NEW!
Patti Medaris Culea
Pub. Quarry Books
Price £14.99 paperback
In her fifth exciting book, best-selling author and fiber artist Patti Medaris Culea takes you beyond her beautiful, signature-style cloth dolls and shows you some new tricks. She covers all the basics and shares cutting-edge techniques while teaching you how to create a flat-figure doll, a memory journal with embellished cloth pages, and a beautiful fabric fan. Learn how to transfer images to silk and organza, make art nouveau-style clothing, create appliqued and beaded embellishments, use oil paint sticks and stencils, work with silk rods and waste, make frames from lace and trims, and much, much, more!

Creative Textile Projects for Children NEW!
Karen Woods
Pub. A&C Black
Price £16.99 paperback
Aimed at primary-school-age upwards, this book presents a range of different projects that children can create without any prior knowledge or experience of working with textiles. The projects move from simple 2-D designs exploring colour and form right up to more complex 3-D forms mixing techniques and media.

Crewel & Surface Embroidery - Inspirational Floral Designs NEW!
Trish Burr
Pub. Search Press
Price £19.99 paperback
This book presents a section of stylised floral bouquets for embroidery, designs inspired by the work of master decorative painters in the USA and Australia, and by the Zhostovo Folk Art style from Russia. This talented embroiderer's unique sense of colour and shading enable her to interpret a range of floral subjects in a mix of thread painting and wool embroidery that fuses crewel and surface embroidery styles. Comprehensive thread listings, numerous step-by-step photographs, clear illustrations and detailed row-by-row instructions make stitching these projects a joy.

Crewel and Unusual NEW!
Fay Maxwell
Pub. Fay Maxwell
Price £14.95 paperback
"It is not my intention to write a book on traditional crewel work but, hopefully, to encourage the use of all its wonderful collection of stitches in a slightly different way; maybe to reawaken in us a few of those stitches that we might have forgotten, or even taken for granted, and place them in combinations not previousl tried." Fay Maxwell

Demystifying Devore (DVD) NEW!
Dionne Swift
Pub. Dionne Swift
Price £10.00 DVD
Dionne Swift is a Textile Artist based in Yorkshire. She has almost 20 years of teaching experience and specialist knowledge of the devore process to pass on to fellow textile enthusiasts. In this DVD, 'Starting Points' explains the process and follows the creation of a devore sample with step by step instructions. The 'Scarf Project' gives further mark making ideas, plus design and finishing suggestions.

Design For Embroidery A Fine Art Approach NEW!
Diane Springall
Pub. Amplix Services
Price £15.00 paperback
Inspirational for both novice and experienced embroiderer this book is based on the concepts of fine art and its emphasis throughout is on the attainment of originality and the development of original style.

Dior - A New Look, A New Enterprise (1947-57) NEW!
Alexandra Palmer
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £19.99 paperback
In 1947 Christian Dior rocked the fashion world with his New look which dominated post war fashion and firmly secured the name of the house in the minds of the public and the industry. He drew on historical models of femininity and the unique skills of Parisian haute couture and a myriad of suppliers to produce stunning designs that captured a mood of optimism after the war. Based on new research, this absorbing and beautiful book examines the seminal years of Christian Dior, 1947-57, from a truly international perspective.

Drawing for Fashion Designers NEW!
Angel Fernandes & Gabriel Martin Roig
Pub. Batsford
Price £16.99 paperback
All fashion designers need to produce drawings, and this book is the perfect guide. It covers all aspects of fashion drawing from basic technical information on the human body to using colour to show fabric and drape, and it encourages you throughout to develop your own unique drawing style. This book will help you produce creative, polished and professional fashion drawings.

dye, print, stitch - Textiles by Thomas and Elizabeth Wardle NEW!
Brenda M King
Pub. Macclesfield Museums Trust
Price £20.00 paperback
This book takes a look at Thomas, and his wife lizabeth's, achievements and legacies 100 years after Thomas was laid to rest at St Edward the Confessor church in Cheddleton.

Embroidered Books BESTSELLER!
Isobel Hall
Pub. Batsford
Price £18.99 hardback
Create precious embroidered books using all the latest fabrics and methods. this beautiful book contains over 30 innovative projects and techniques. It covers the basics of book construction as well as exquisite embellishment ideas. Illustrated throughout with stunning examples of the author's work.

Embroidered Flowers for Elizabeth NEW!
Susan O'Connor
Pub. Country Bumpkin
Price £16.99 paperback
Rich in colour and decoration, this book echoes the sumptuous style of the Elizabethan era. The favorite flowers and fruits of Queen Elizabeth I and her subjects are stitched in the same beautiful colours and ornate fashion that gives embroidery from this era such long lasting appeal. Each of the 12 large floral motifs and 12 small ones are worked together to create a superb large throw, but can easily be adapted for individual use on any number of items. A full thread conversion chart is provided so that embroidery can be worked on any scale in wool, cotton or silk thread. Stunning photographs, concise instructions and clear step-by-step photographs make this an irresistable title for all embroiderers.

Embroidered Jewellery NEW!
Shirley Anne Sherris
Pub. Batsford
Price £18.99 hardback
Shirley Anne Sherris's stunning collection provides exciting ideas for a range of embroidered jewellery, including necklaces, bracelets, earrings and purses. Packed with techniques and step-by-step projects that are easy to follow, this book will help you to create your own exquisite pieces of jewellery. Practical advice on designing, sizing, edging, chains and fastenings ensure you can create your own professionally finished jewellery that is beautiful and unique.

Embroidered Originals NEW!
Sue Rangeley
Pub. d4daisy
Price £19.00 paperback
AVAILABLE IN MARCH - Inspiring and lavishly illustrated, Embroidered Originals expresses a love for the language of embroidery while revealing the artistry of Sue Rangeley's stunning creations. Sue draws inspiration from the natural world and Embroidered Originals follows her journey from wonderful drawings, through stitch samples, to the finished pieces. A comprehensive 'Studio Techniques' section highlights the rich diversity of the processes used by Sue. Techniques are described in detail, offering a comprehensive practical guide for embroiderers and textile students. A book for the coffee table and the workroom, Embroidered Originals will enchant and inspire, giving new directions for creative stitch. It is a visual treat for those interested in fine craft textiles with a touch of fashion pzazz.

Embroidered Pansies NEW!
Diana Lampe
Pub. Search Press
Price £15.00 hardback
Diana Lampe is renowned for her skill in matching the colours of nature with the embroiderer's palette of cotton, silk or woolen threads. In this, her fifth book, Diana has excelled and gives all the details to allow the reader to reproduce more than 100 pansies and heartsease, all true to nature in both form and colour. There are a range of embroidered projects that can be created to display pansies, from brooches, to cushions, to 'carpets' of flowers, together with an illustrated stitch glossary and an extensive thread coversion chart so that the pansies can be created in perfect colours in a wide range of threads.

Embroiderers of Ninhue - Stitching Chilean Rural Life NEW!
Carmen Benavente
Pub. Texus Tech University Press
Price £30.00 hardback
For four decades, the embroiderers of Ninhue, Chile, have been stitching scenes of rural life in their village in the foothills of the Coastal Range between Santiago and Concepcion. Their work stands today amomg the most evocative of Chilean arts, as evocative as the story of how they came together at a crucial moment in Chile's history. Read the amazing story of teacher and lecturer Carmen Benavente and view some of the intricate and imaginative patterns showcased in this book.

Experimental Textiles NEW!
Kim Thittichai
Pub. Batsford
Price £19.99 hardback
An experimental guide to developing your own experimental textile art, from three-dimensional work to large-scale installations. New ideas for designing with practical exercises and sketchbooks. Combines a range of materials - recycled fabrics, papers and silks, felt, Lutrador, plastic, Pelmet Vilene and found objects - with a variety of techniques, from applique to collage. Showcases the best experimental textile art in the world today.

Exploring African Themes in Fabric & Stitch NEW!
Mary Sleigh
Pub. Mary Sleigh
Price £18.95 paperback
Exploring African Themes in Fabric and Stitch shows how to use African sources as inspiration for design. It is a response to demand following the success of Mary Sleigh's first book African Inspirations in Embroidery. The new book explores themes based on materials, construction, recycling, decoration, embroidery and embellishment. The focus is on using innovative and imaginative ways to develop individual ideas. As well as providing inspiration, this book contains clear instructions for a range of processes including: * Dyeing with woad * Paste resist decoration * Piecing and patching African style * Recycling * Patinating metal * Embroidery techniques used in African textiles

Fabricate NEW!
Susan Wasinger
Pub. Interweave Press
Price £16.99 paperback
Drawing on haute couture and modern fibre art, Fabricate takes you step by step through all the processes, from inspired ideas to stunning finished product such as bags skirts and pillows. Transform simple materials through texture,substance, visual interest, witty adornment and clever embellishments

Fabulous Bags to Stitch and Make NEW!
Jenny Rolfe
Pub. Search Press
Price £12.99 paperback
Jenny Rolfe shows how to make beautiful fabrics using quilting and free machine embroidery techniques, and how to make them up into fantastic bags and purses. Step by step photography and clear explanations make the techniques achievable for needleworkers of all skill levels, and Jenny's beautiful bag and purse designs will appeal to bag lovers everywhere.

Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur NEW!
Lesley Riley
Pub. C&T Publishing
Price £18.99 paperback
Get creative with this fabulous cross between paper and fabric. Discover all the wonderful things you can do with Lutrador - the exciting new fabric that looks, feels and folds like translucent paper but doesn't tear or fray.

Fabulous Frocks NEW!
Jane Eastoe & Sarah Gristwood
Pub. Pavilion
Price £25.00 hardback
* A stunning celebration of the dress in the twentieth century. * Featuring the most innovative, inspirational, controvarsial and covetable frocks of our time. * From Vionnet to Versace and Dior to Diana.

Fashion Accessories NEW!
Olivier Gerval
Pub. A&C Black
Price £19.99 paperback
This is the second book in the 'Studies in Fashion' series, and looks at the role of accessories in the fashion world and the development and manufacturing processes that are involved in their creation. Illustrated with more than 1000 colour photos and drawings the majority of which are previously unseen - it serves as an indispensable work aid for young designers and confirmed professionals alike, and offers an invaluable insight into the world of the accessory for anyone interested in fashion.

Fast, Fun and Easy Needlefelting NEW!
Lynne Farris
Pub. C&T Publishing
Price £12.99 paperback
Here is a state-of-the-art beginner's guide to the tools, materials and techniques of needle felting. "Fast, Fun & Easy Needle Felting" includes complete illustrated instructions for 8 distinct needle-felting techniques - from embellishments on woollen fabric, creating applique and stained-glass effects, to the use of buttons and beads in dimensional projects. Each of the featured techniques is accompanied by a unique project - including book covers, pillows, picture frames and bracelets. Author Biography: Lynne Farris is an award-winning quilt-maker, and a best-selling author. She is widely admired for her precise workmanship and intricate piecing.

Felt Furnishings NEW!
Anne Kyyro Quinn
Pub. Aurum Press
Price £20.00 paperback
A Collection of 25 Inspiring projects exploring the versatility and creative potential of felt to make sculptural, stylish, textural and tactile furnishings and accessories for the home. As seen in STITCH Magazine No 63 Feb/March 2010.

Felted Bags, Boots & Other Things NEW!
Cendrine Armani
Pub. Search Press
Price £8.99 paperback
In this colourful and inspiring book, Cendrine Armani suggests designs for 56 bags, purses, cases, jewels, hats, boots, shoes and scarves which you can make using felt - a rich, natural fabric that is beatiful to work with, and conveys gentleness, warmth and comfort. Each item is created using the soap felting technique, with the needle technique used for motifs and other decorative elements. Both these techniques are explained clearly using more than 75 step by step photographs. The designs are divided into 9 unique themes, ensuring that there is something in this book to suit all tastes and every style or occasion.

Felting Fashion - Creative and Inspirational Techniques for Feltmakers NEW!
Lizzie Houghton
Pub. Anova
Price £18.99 hardback
Although there are several books on felt, this is the first one that concentrates on felt fashions - with felt techniques and patterns for construction. From simple corsages through hats and scarves to jackets and full-length coats. With clear instructions, construction patterns and stunning images of felted fashions from a range of felters, this is a great book on a subject growing in popularity.

Fragile Fabrics (23) NEW!
Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
Pub. Double Trouble
Price £7.50 paperback
This book demonstrates innovative approaches to creating delicate and unique fabrics using a variety of techniques and design sources. Jan and Jean look at spiders webs, hedgerows, mosaic floors and flowers and work with sheer and soluble farics, beads of glue, embellishing (needle punch) machines, thermofax screens and hand-stitched lace.

Freestyle Machine Embroidery, Techniques & Inspiration for Fiber Art NEW!
Carol Shinn
Pub. Search Press
Price £19.99 paperback
Create art with stitches - explore the possibilities of freestyle machine embroidery as an artistic medium with this inspirational guidebook. Studio artist Carol Shinn teaches basic methods and stitches accompanied by step-by-step photographs and dozens of stitched examples to bring the techniques to life. Learn the impact of colour, layout and content decisions and how to apply them to your own work. A gallery of works by fiber artists from around the globe offers inspiration and ideas.

Goldwork Instructional DVD Part 1 (DVD) NEW!
Golden Hinde
Pub. Golden Hinde
Price £14.95 DVD
This DVD is produced by the well known Golden Hinde, experts in Goldwork. This DVD is really aimed at beginners by explaining basic techniques that will encourage you to go on to create your own work of art. Goldwork Embroidery is an ancient craft and Golden Hinde aim to show that it is not beyond beginners, despite all the mystery that surrounds the techniques.

Historic Samplers - 'Tis Education Forms the Common Mind' - Schools, Scholars and Seminaries NEW!
Witney Antiques
Pub. Witney Antiques
Price £18.00 paperback
A vital part of a young girls education was sewing and, through the needle feminine virtues were impressed on the young mind. Whilst many samplers remain, the teachers of the young embroiderers, many anonymous, are sadly long forgotten. In this exhibition, where possible, we have tried to link groups of samplers together. In some cases we have added to groups which are already known and have illustrated in this catalogue newly discovered and previously unrecorded examples.

Inchies - create miniature works of art using textiles and mixed media techniques NEW!
Peggy Donda-Kobert
Pub. Search Press
Price £6.99 paperback
Inchies are tiny works of art, just one-inch square (2.5 x 2.5cm) that are captivating the hearts of textile and mixed media artists all over the world. Their small size means they are perfect for trying out new techniques and materials using scraps of fabrics, yarns and embellishments - the only things you need in abundance are creativity, imagination and the desire to have fun!

Indian Saris NEW!
Vijai Singh Katiyar
Pub. Annokhi Museum of Hand Printing
Price £49.99 hardback
This book lends a new dimension to the way the traditional Indian sari is looked upon, and upholds it as the epitome of holistic design with a unique creative expression. In the backdrop of Indian socio-cultural and economic ethos, the pages of this book unfold the mesmerising woven yards of the sari, the quintessential piece of garment that has draped the Indian women since time immemorial. The sari has been subjected to innumerable cross-cultural influences brought in by the rise and fall of empires that marked the history of India. Perhaps no other textile product reflects the resilience of the Indian handloom sector as the sari, a true example of fine Indian sensibilities. This volume aims to delight and enrich the aesthetic experience of the reader with information on a wide range of saris from both the past and the present.

Indian Textiles NEW!
John Gillow and Nicholas Barnard
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £29.95 hardback
Available now! This all-encompassing survey of textiles from every region of the Indian subcontinent runs the gamut of commercial, tribal and folk textiles. The authors first place them in context by examining the cultural background: the history, the materials, and techniques - weaving, printing, painting and tie-dye. A dazzling array of images.

Kaffe Fassett's Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts: 23 Original Quilt Designs NEW!
Kaffe Fassett
Pub. Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Price £22.50 hardback
In 'Kaffe Fassett's Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts', world-renowned quilter Kaffe Fassett demonstrates how basic geometric forms - squares, rectangles, triangles, diamonds, circles and quarter circles - found in natural and manmade environments inspire his quilt designs. This is evident in the 23 magnificent, inventive quilts showcased in this book and step-by-step instructions are provided for each one. Along the way, Fassett also offers over a hundred photos of geometric inspiration from around the world - everything from triangular watermelon slices, to rectangular sheets of corrugated metal on African scrap dwellings, to lollipop-shaped topiary trees in Japan. In the accompanying text, Fassett reveals how he experiences the colours and basic shapes around him, how we can train our own eyes to see this rewarding source of creativity and how we can, just as he does, combine striking fabrics with simple shapes to create our own spectacular quilt designs.

Layered, Tattered and Stitched: A Fabric Art Workshop NEW!
Ruth Rae
Pub. North Light Books
Price £15.99 paperback
The step-by-step instructions in "Layered, Tattered and Stitched" show readers how easy it is to create fabric-art with incredible depth and personal significance. Throughout the book, the author uses a mixture of atypical sewing techniques such as trapping found objects between layers, stitching and quilting paper and creating doors and windows in fabric along with mixed-media techniques that include transferring photos and collaging media onto fabric and more. Readers are encouraged to expand their own creative processes, using such things as poetry and symbolic objects for inspiration.

Lovely Lutradur NEW!
Marion Barnett and Dijanne Cevaal
Pub. Artmixter
Price £14.00 paperback
This book describes, in detail, some of the creative ways you can use Lutradur. Split into three sections, the first gives an overview of Lutradur and looks at ways to colour it. Section two has a series of projects that demonstrate just how versatile the material is; and the final section is a gallery of work with descriptions of the methods used to create them.

Machine Embroidered Woodlands BESTSELLER!
Alison Holt
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99 paperback
Available now! Another excellent book by Alison Holt containing everything you need to know to create beautiful woodland embroideries, including the materials required, how to compose a picture from photographs, choosing threads, painting backgrounds and basic stitching techniques. See also her best selling tutorial DVD "Creating Machine Embroidery with Alison Holt: Flowers & Landscapes.

Made in France NEW!
Agnes Delage-Calvert, Anne Sohier-Fournel, Muriel Brunet, Francoise Ritz
Pub. Murdoch Books
Price £14.99 paperback
Cross stitch and embroidery in red, white and blue. 50 pretty projects worked in cross stitch, stem stitch and French knots. Elegant and timeless motifs can be used to create unique gifts for the home and accessories

Making Kimono and Japanese Clothes NEW!
Jenni Dobson
Pub. Anova
Price £14.99 paperback
Now in paperback - A practical and creative sourcebook for anyone inspired by the elegant design of Japanese clothes, this comprehensive guide includes patterns, practical diagrams and step-by-step assembly instructions. Providing everything you need to start stitching, for beginners to more accomplished dressmakers, quilters and embroiderers, expert dressmaker and quilter Jenni Dobson guides you through the history of Japan and the Kimono, providing a stunning showcase for the art that is making Japanese clothes.

Manga Stitches - Make Your Own Graphic Art Needlework NEW!
Helen McCarthy
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £14.99 hardback & CD
Manga in Stitches teaches readers how to use the tricks of Japanese graphic art and the skills of traditional needlecraft to make cute, action-packed, or stylish needlework - a contemporary approach to the traditional craft. The accompanying CD contains hundreds of unique manga designs and "charts" to print out and stitch, and software allowing you to create your own, personalised manga designs.

Manolo Blahnik Drawings NEW!
Foreword by Anna Wintour
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £9.95 paperback
For over three decades, Manolo Blahnik's shoes, and his sense of the theatrical wedded to the finest materials and superlative craftsmanship, have inspired fanatical devotion. This beautiful book collects together over 120 of the exquisite drawings Blahnik makes at the outset of the design process. These drawings - superbly reproduced in this book with special links - vividly convey Blahnik's unique vision. Contributions from Andre Leon Talley, Michael Roberts and Anna Piaggi.

My Wonderful World of Fashion NEW!
Nina Chakrabarti
Pub. Laurence King Publishing Ltd
Price £12.95 paperback
An excellent book for young embroiderers! Billed as a book for 'drawing, creating and dreaming' this interactive colouring book for younger readers might just tempt them to pick up a needle and thread. Alongside the illustrations, there are designs to finish off, as well as simple ideas for making and doing (how to make a sari, turn a napkin into a headscarf, dye a t-shirt) making it an ideal stocking-filler).

Needlepoint Stitches 52 stitches explained and illustrated NEW!
Susan Higginson
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99 paperback
This handy reference guide will help with every aspect of needlepoint, from selecting your materials to creating your own embroideries.

New Fashion Figure Templates NEW!
Patrick John Ireland
Pub. Batsford
Price £17.99 paperback
Over 2500 figure templates from Patrick John Ireland, one of the worlds leading fashion illustrators. Includes templates of women, men and children from a variety of angles. Templates can be copied, scanned, enlarged and adapted.

On this Fair Sampler does my Needle Write NEW!
Witney Antiques
Pub. Witney Antiques
Price £15.00 paperback
This book commemorates the twelfth anniversary of Witney Antiques annual exhibition of samplers and historic embroidery. Each piece selected has had the history and background of the embroideries researched where possible. This book focuses on the importance of the social history of the piece, in particular that of the verses there-on. Many of the pieces selected were part of an important collection formed at the beging of the previous century by Emma - Henriette Schiff von Suvero. These include items of both English and Continental origin.

One Piece of Fabric - 15 Projects to Make NEW!
Lena Santana
Pub. Collins & Brown
Price £11.99 paperback
Discover the versatility of a basic material:fabric. Take, as a starting point, one piece of fabric. Cut it into pieces, and you can transform it into some great looking clothes and accessories. In this book Lena Santana presents 15 stylish but straight-forward projects that can be made with a minimum of fuss, even if you are new to sewing. The step-by-step photographs will guide you through the process.

Page after Page. Making individual books and journals NEW!
Frances Pickering
Pub. Art Van Go
Price £10.00 paperback
This is a book about what inspires me to make stitched and illustrated books. Within these illustrated pages I try to explain some of the techniques I use and hopefully inspire you to catch the 'book bug'. Frances Pickering

Paintstiks Marvellous Markal - Sumptuous Shiva NEW!
Ruth Issett
Pub. Art Van Go
Price £9.95 paperback
Paintstiks are unique as they are created from an oil and wax mixture which gives a smooth slightly greasy medium to work with. This book will try to illustrate numerous different applications, colour combinations and methods of applying paintstiks to fabric and paper. Paintstks are called both Markal in the UK and Europe and Shiva in North America.

Paper & Metal Leaf Lamination BESTSELLER!
C.Benn, J.Dunnewold & L.Morgan
Pub. Committed to Cloth
Price £19.50 spiral bound
This best seller now comes with a Paper Lamination Worshop DVD. A new book from the popular publications from Committed to Cloth & Art Studios. Paper and Metal Leaf Lamination is about taking a mixed media approach to cloth.

Print Progress: Innovation & Revival, 1970 - 2005 - Annokhi Museum of hand printing NEW!
Pramod Kumar, Emma Ronald
Pub. Annokhi Museum of Hand Printing
Price £12.50 paperback
The opening exhibition of the Anokhi Museum of Hand Printing narrates the print innovations and revivals in the local hand block printing industry, tracing the contemporary history of the craft from 1970 - 2005 and documents this period of regeneration in hand block printing. Beautifully illustated, including actual hand-printed cloth samples.

Printing By Hand NEW!
Lena Corwin
Pub. Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Price £14.99 spiral bound
A modern guide to printing with handmade stamps, stencils,and silk screens. Step by step instructions and detailed how-to photographs make each imaginative project easy to execute with either Corwins's original artwork or one's own designs. Projects range from stationery and clothing to furniture and wall embellishments

Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes NEW!
Beth Grabowski & Bill Flick
Pub. Laurence King Publishing Ltd
Price £19.95 paperback
"Printmaking" is a comprehensive and up to date introduction to fundamental printmaking techniques including relief, intaglio, collagraph, lithography, screen print and monoprint. It shows how some of the latest and most experimental prints have been made using these techniques. It also shows how to use the computer as an image-making tool and how to translate digital images into tangible works of art. Each chapter has clear, step-by-step illustrations with extensive case studies, which help the student understand the technical aspects of each printmaking technique. Each chapter profiles a leading contemporary printmaker, with an interview and examples of their work. The appendices include many useful troubleshooting charts, indicating the problems that are likely to arise with different techniques, and what can be done to solve them. There is also a useful glossary of technical terms.

Quilts 1700 - 2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories NEW!
Sue Pritchard
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £35.00 hardback
Quilts evoke the past - they stimulate our earliest memories of security and comfort and resonate with historical and cultural references challenging the assumption that stitching is simply 'women's work'. Using stunning new photography, this book explores the personal and social histories which reveal the maker's complex engagement with the wider world. The myths and narratives handed down with each intricately pieced patchwork and stitched whole cloth are as much a part of our heritage as the silks, velvets and cottons which document our textile history. Primary sources, such as inventories, diaries and letters add context to the personal narratives documented by the quilts, exploring responses to marriage, childbirth, love and loss. The book includes contemporary material to show how artists such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin respond to the tradition of quilt making.

Reflections of Nature - The Art & Embroidery of Jane Hall now in paperback
Jane E Hall
Pub. Search Press
Price £15.00 paperback
NEW IN PAPERBACK This book explores Jane's extraordinary world, the materials she uses, her techniques, and her understanding and interpretation of nature. Packed with ideas, inspiration and information, it will appeal to all embroiderers and textile artists everywhere.

Rozanne Hawksley BESTSELLER!
Mary Schoeser
Pub. Ruthin Craft Centre
Price £40.00 hardback
This is the first monograph on Rozanne Hawkesley, a formidable artist who has broken down barriers through her body of mixed-media work that provides a powerful and mature narrative about war and other world events, as well as the role and fate of women. Still a practising artist, her drawings are haunting, her installations and sculpture, often controversial. This book offers the first and only insight into the life and practice of this significant figure, who through her teaching has exercised a quiet but persuasive influence on several generations of students, teachers and practitioners over the past thirty years.

Sadi Thread and Shisha Glass Embroidery NEW!
Betty Luke
Pub. Sally Milner Publishing
Price £12.95 paperback
Available Now! Betty Luke has combined these exuberant traditions with the seductiveness of Art Silk threads in 19 original contemporary designs. By laying out the techniques used for the sadi and shisha, drawing on popular embroidery stitches and giving clear step-by-step instructions, Betty also provides the basis for creating your own unique designs using these unusual materials.

Samplers NEW!
Rebecca Scott
Pub. Shire Publications
Price £12.99 paperback
Samplers are not only beautiful, but also provide a record of the lives and skills of the women who worked them, whether produced for educational, religious, or purely decorative purposes. Rebecca Scott provides a detailed social history of samplers and their various roles in women's lives since the seventeenth century.

Sanderson - The Essence of English Decoration NEW!
Mary Schoeser
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £18.95 paperback
PUBLICATION DATE MARCH 2010. Picture the interior of the quintessential English home - whether the chintz parlour of a Victorian terrace, a postwar urban flat, or the majestic blue drawing room of Buckingham Palace - and you inevitably picture Sanderson. For 150 years Sanderson has been at the vanguard of every significant movement in European decorative arts, from Arts and Crafts and Art Deco to 1980s country-house style to the vibrant interiors of the twenty-first century, shaping a distinctive style of English decoration beloved throughout the world. Granted unprecedented access to the Sanderson archives, Mary Schoeser relates the history of the company from its founding to the present day. A preface by renowned British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes and an introduction by Whitworth curator Christine Woods celebrate the importance of the "Sanderson style" in modern British decoration and design. With over 200 patterns specially selected from the Sanderson archives and reproduced in full colour, this book is a font of inspiration for decorators, designers, graphic artists, and collectors.

Screen Printing - Layering textiles with colour, texture and imagery NEW!
Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan
Pub. Committed to Cloth
Price £27.50 spiral bound
Although several books have been written on the topic of screen printing, Leslie Morgan and Claire Benn wanted to create a record of their own experiments and experiences - as every individual brings their own approach to any process. Inspired through experience with William Weil and Jane Dunnewold, Leslie and Claire have adapted and developed some of their processes to suit their own methods. As explored in this book, silkscreen can be a remarkably versatile tool in the hands of an enquiring mind and an attitude of curiousity. Capable of perfect precision, the screen can also create marvelously organic, fun and spontaneous results. Committing to exploring the potential of the screen, you'll be amazed and delighted by what you can achieve. This book contains a DVD.

Sew Fabulous Fabric NEW!
Alice Burcher & Ginny Farquar
Pub. David & Charles
Price £12.99 paperback
Make the most of your textiles with this unique collection of irresistible homestyle projects, cleverly combining new and recyled fabrics for vintage, homespun and retro results.This title features 25 practical yet pretty projects for yourself and your home include cosy cushions and curtains, beautiful table linen and gift bags, irresistible handbags and cute cuddly toys. It is packed with ideas and opportunities to make the most of every last scrap of fabric, whether it's a luscious new fabric, a pair of old pyjamas or a thrift store bargain. Simple embroidery skills, and patchwork and applique techniques are all fully explained with simple step-by-step photography and easy-to-follow artworks

Sharp Suits NEW!
Eric Musgrave
Pub. Anova
Price £25.00 hardback
A fascinating look at men's most ubiquitous uniform and status symbol, from classic respectability to the heights of innovation. Features fantastic photographs of the suit from the 1860s to date.

Shirley Craven and Hull Traders Revolutionary Fabrics & Furniture 1957-1980 NEW!
Lesley Jackson
Pub. ACC Distribution
Price £25.00 paperback
Big bold abstracts in eye-popping colours, Shirley Craven's extra-ordinary textiles encapsulate the exuberance of the Swinging Sixties. This ground-breaking book celebrates her remarkable creative partnership with Hull Traders, the Company who printed her designs. Ranging from Abstract Expressionism to Op Art, Hull Traders' textiles were electic, visionary and avant garde. The book highlights the galaxy of artists who collaborated with Hull Traders, forty in total, including Edward Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson, Ivon Hitchens, Doreen Dyall, Peter McCulloch and Althea McNish. It also tells the fascinating story of Bernard Holdaway's revolutionary tomotum furniture, an icon of the pop era, made from giant cardboard tubes. Based on new research by writer and curator Lesley Jackson, a leading authority on post war design, this book features stunning new colour images and rare archive photographs.

Silk Paper for textile artists NEW!
Sarah Lawrence
Pub. A&C Black
Price £16.99 paperback
Step by Step demonstration of the basic methods for creating luminous fabric. Examples of the ways textile artists can create flat and 3-D designs in this medium, from framed articles to jewellery. Includes a glossary of silk-making terms

Snow Crystals NEW!
Wilson Bentley
Pub. Prestel
Price £18.99 paperback
Looking for Inspiration. This collection of photographed snow crystals will inspire for all sorts of work.

Stitch and Sparkle NEW!
Charlotte Liddle
Pub. Coats
Price £7.99 paperback
Stitch and Sparkle shows you how to make it your very own! Add ribbons, pompoms, motifs, beads, sequins and embroidery stitches to create individual, young-at-heart accessories. Lot's of great ideas accompanied by step by step illustrations.

Stitch Divas NEW!
Charlotte Liddle & Rachel Henderson
Pub. Coats
Price £9.99 paperback
Stitch Divas is packed with ideas for you, among them are how to make finger knitted ipod cosies, how to decorate your favourite pumps with flowers, how to make a felted butterfly brooch and lots more. It also teaches you how to be a designer and work in a group with your friends to sell your own textile projects.

Stitched in Adversity - Samplers of the Poor NEW!
Witney Antiques
Pub. Witney Antiques
Price £15.00 paperback
This catalogue illustrates some of the finest work produced by the poorest girls in adverse conditions. Examples illustrated come from orphanages, asylums, charity schools and schools of industry. Four examples of rare pocket samplers are shown both front and back. Sections relating to Cheltenham Female Orphan Asylum, the George Muller Orphanages, Raines Asylum and Indian Missionary Schools are accompanied by an informative text. Many samplers are directly related to the family background of the young embroidress forming a fascinating social history. 'Stitched in Adversity' is a moving tribute to female endeavours in the late 18th and 19th Centuries and creates a thought provoking catalogue

Stitched Postcards NEW!
Christina Rolf
Pub. Search Press
Price £7.99 paperback
Make them, swap them, collect them - these postcard-sized works of art (also known as Arist Mailing Cards) are one of the latest ideas to emerge from the world of mixed media art. This book contains an exclusive collection of some of the best designs, including landscapes, florals, architecture and vintage, with contributions from a number os well-known textile designers.

Stitches, Straps and Layers NEW!
Maggie Grey
Pub. d4daisy
Price £19.00 paperback
With an emphasis on re-using and recycling, Maggie Grey looks at building exciting surfaces through layering, applique and making straps. Once again, there'll be a free online class for buyers of this book.

Stitching for Victory NEW!
Suzanne Griffith
Pub. Marston Books
Price £16.99 paperback
When the Second World War broke out, stitched items suddenly became absolutely vital. A massive production of uniforms and stitched equipment took over factories and raw materials while in the home every scrap of thread was utilised. The stories in these pages are of weddings - most brides had to be content with getting married in their uniform, parachute drops in the dead of night into enemy territory; lice and mud in the trenches; and, regimental insignia embroidered onto pyjamas until the men came home and secret stitches hidden from brutal guards. The book also shows what an important role the Embroiderers' Guild played during the Second World War, and what happend to the Guild during the war. It contains previously unpublished colour illustrations one of which is a piece of work by Queen Mary.

Stitching the Textured Surface NEW!
Lynda Monk and Carol McFee
Pub. d4daisy
Price £17.00 paperback
Mixed media is such a popular concept and these two authors are masters of their craft. Apealing to a wide range of interests, this book is sure to become a best-seller.
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Stitchopedia NEW!
Helen Winthorpe-Kendrick
Pub. A&C Black
Price £19.99 spiral bound
The only embroidery reference you'll every need. A comprehensive reference, stitchopedia covers a range of stitches and motifs, including stumpwork, hardanger, pulled work, crewel work, blackwork and canvas work. This book is filled with clear stitch diagrams which accompany step-by-step instructions and accurate colour photographs of the most popular decorative embroidery stitches and techniques. This book should be a must for the reference shelves of all embroiderers.

Stumpwork - Medieval Flora NEW!
Jane Nicholas
Pub. Search Press
Price £24.99 hardback
Illuminated manuscripts of the medieval era provide the inspiration for Jane Nicholas' glorious stumpwork. There are eight botanical speciamens, which display the buds, blossoms and seed cases of the flower; the embroideries, like the illustrations that inspired them, offer wonderful surprises and close inspection reveals an assortment of beetles and creepy-crawlies nestling in the foliage. Another three embroideries, exquisitely stitched panels, are accompied by beautiful illustrations showing the illuminated pages that inspired them. The techniques used to create the embroideries are clearly explained and, with the necessary skills at your fingertips, the elements in the book could be combined in numerous ways to create your own designs.

Surfaces and Textures - a visual sourcebook NEW!
Polly O'Neil
Pub. A&C Black
Price £19.99 paperback
This collection of amazing images has been gathered by the author over the last 10 years, providing a wealth of visual imagery for ideas and inspiration. These photographs show surfaces and textures of everything from rust and lichen to skips and old sails. Every surface tells a story and these beautiful images provide a visual sourcebook for artists from all areas of the Visual Arts.

Textile Translations: Mixed Media SPECIAL OFFER!
Maggie Grey
Pub. d4daisy
Price £17.00 paperback
"Inspiration to art - new approaches to mixed media to take your work to another dimension." Maggie Grey shows how, with basic materials such as gesso, paper and salt, wonderfully textured surfaces can be created.
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Textiles from The Balkans NEW!
Diane Waller
Pub. British Museum Press
Price £10.99 paperback
AVAILABLE FROM FEBRUARY 2010 - This book presents the first published overview of the fascinating textiles from this region, setting the techniques for making them within their historical and geographical context. The author's personal experience collecting many of the pieces in the field allows her to offer completely new insights into the highly decorated textiles produced by the various ethnic, clan and religious groups of the area. The items range from everyday to festive clothing and also include accessories and textiles for the home. The makers employed a wide range of materials and techniques, including a particularly skilful use of couched embroidery and different ways of weaving. The author also explores the elements of garment shape, colour, motif and symbolism.

Textiles Handbook - mixed media & found materials NEW!
Lucy Renshaw
Pub. A&C Black
Price £15.99 paperback
Mixed media and found materials is all about experimenting with as many different found materials, colours and textures as you can lay your hands on. This book will inspire enthusiastic beginners with limited textile skills as well as engaging more experienced makers looking for new inspiration and techniques - it will also provide useful pointers for sourcing vintage fabrics and recycled materials as well as other reuseable components.

Textiles: A World Tour NEW!
Catherine Legrand
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £24.95 hardback
Available now! Pieced together much like the fine garments it portrays, this colourful volume guides the reader on an international textile tour, presenting in over 700 glorious photographs a raft of remarkable clothing, people and fabric from all over the world.

The Art of Dress - Clothes Through History 1500 - 1914 now in paperback
Jane Ashelford
Pub. National Trust
Price £20.00 paperback
Jane Ashelford has used the National Trust's stunning costume and textile collections as well as its historic house portraits, family correspondence, diaries and household papers. The result is a fascinating account of the history of dress over the past four centuries. Avoiding a mere chronicle of cut, shape and decoration, the author looks at the social aspects of dress - how styles were conveyed, how and where materials and clothes were purchased, what all levels of society wore, from duke to serving boy, and all ages, from widow's weeds to swaddling bands.

The Celtic Design Book NEW!
Aidan Meehan
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £9.95 paperback
This bumper edition of Aidan Meehan's guides to the art and design of the Celts brings together three of his bestselling titles - A Beginner's Manual, Knotwork and Illuminated Letters. This is an excellent book for anyone really interested in Celtic design itself or for anyone interested in developing their skills in formalized design.

The Complete book of Flower Designs NEW!
Judy Balchin
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99
A source book for craftspeople and artists plus a gallery of inspirational finished pieces by Judy Balchin.Over250 borders, motifs and patterns

The Complete Book of Oriental Designs NEW!
Various
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.99
Figures, birds, flowers, stylised motifs, borders and symbolic patterns abound in this inspirational sourcebook which contains over 300 specially commissioned black and white line illustrations for use in projects and artwork. The first section of the book includes inspirational finished pieces to illustrate how the designs can be used in different ways: in cards, on book covers, in embroideries and more. Free CD included.

The Essential Art of African Textiles | Design Without End NEW!
Alisa LaGamma and Christine Giuntini
Pub. Yale
Price £12.99 paperback
Textiles are a major form of aesthetic expression across Africa, and this book examines long-standing traditions together with recent creative developments.A variety of fine and venerable West African cloths are presented and discussed in terms of both artistry and technique. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 30th 2008 - March 22 2009.

The Girl on the Wall. One Life's Rich Tapestry NEW!
Jean Baggott
Pub. Icon Books
Price £17.99 paperback
A unique, beguiling and very personal social history of one British life over the past seven decades, told through a hand-sewn tapestry. As reviewed in the Daily Mail.

The Handbook of Silk Ribbon Embroidery NEW!
Ann Cox
Pub. Search Press
Price £10.99 hardback
This useful handbook provides all the techniques you need to create beautiful silk ribbon embroideries. Using just three basic stitches and gathering techniques, learn how to stitch over thirty-five different flowers, including roses, geraniums, irises, pansies, sweet peas and more. Over fifteen more detailed projects will take your skills even further, all with templates and full instructions provided.

The Language of Flowers NEW!
Marina Heilmeyer
Pub. Prestel
Price £15.50 hardback
Flowers play a vital role as vehicles of expression. The fascinating history of the symbolism of flowers is presented and explained here in all its facets with entertaining texts and details of beautiful works of art. Thirty-five beautiful depictions of flowers taken from the Renaissance and Baroque periods are reproduced as full-page, full colour illustrations accompanied by descriptive texts.

The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion NEW!
Yvette Stanton
Pub. Search Press
Price £19.99 paperback
Are you frustrated by right-handed embroidery instructions and having to mentally flip them, use a mirror, or substitute right for left and vice versa. Be frustrated no more! Written by a left-hander, this stitch dictionary shows you the LEFT way to do embroidery. Written in Yvette Stanton's clear, step-by-step style, this book will be your constant embroidery companion as it shows how to do over 170 stitches comfortably and sensibly, for you as a left-hander. Surface stitches and counted thread stitches are carefully explained, with many helpful diagrams and photos. Right-handed teachers will appreciate the right-handed diagrams showing the difference between what they and their left-handed students do.

The New Cross Stitcher's Bible NEW!
Jane Greenoff
Pub. A&C Black
Price £19.99 hardback
The New Cross Stitcher's Bible, a completely new and revised edition of the best-selling Cross Stitcher's Bible, features extra pages, all new projects, even more stitches and a practical stay-open binding. Features over 100 new charted designs and project ideas. An excellent stitch library featuring even more choice.

The Party Dress NEW!
Simon Henry
Pub. Guild of Master Craftsman Publications
Price £14.99 paperback
Following on the from the very successful 'The Little Black Dress', Simon Henry brings us 'The Party Dress - how to make the perfect one for you'. Every girl needs a perfect party dress at some time in her life, but how do you find one that fits perfectly, suits your shape and makes you look a million dollars - the answer is to make it yourself! Simon Henry guides you gently through the whole process, giving you the confidence to sew a party dress that is as individual as you are.

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.

The Quilted Object NEW!
Ineke Berlyn
Pub. Batsford
Price £19.99 paperback
Award winning artist Ineke Berlyn shows you how to use the most innovative quilt art techniques to make a range of quilted items, from bags, books, personalised quit journals, fabric postcards to vase covers, boxes and even quilted dolls. All the latest materials and techniques are covered. Stunningly illustrated with work from quilt artists all over the world.

Thr3fold (issue 4) - the journal of creative vision NEW!
Laura Kemshall, Linda Kemshall & Catherine Nicholls
Pub. Thr3fold
Price £17.95
Thr3fold (issue 4) combines a lively mix of articles covering a variety of textile techniques, such as quilting, embroidery, painting, drawing and knitting, with step-by-step projects and challenges. The book is accompanied by a CD featuring more information, photographs and videos. This is a beautifully presented and very informative book for all textile artists.

Threadwork: Silks, Stitches, Beads and Cords NEW!
Effie Mitrofanis
Pub. Sally Milner Publishing
Price £19.99 paperback
This is a book about creating sumptuous embellished surfaces made by: collaging rich colourful silks, transparent organza and ribbons stitching with embroidery threads and ribbons, knitting and other yarns, and adding further texture with raised embroidery, cords, metallic threads and beads. Experience a process of creating where each application allows the surface to evolve from the first layer upwards with a sense of playfulness and thinking outside the square. The method or process is to create an original soft textile by assembling layers of fabric as a background that is embellished with stitches, quilting, beads and cords. Within the 128 pages there are 28 amazing projects, all with full instructions for an exact reproduction, or ideas for using what is available, or combining techniques throughout the book to create a truly unique piece. Beautiful photography of finished pieces. A feast for the eyes and your creative spirit. ' Effie Mitrofanis has an international reputation as a fine and versatile embroiderer and craftsperson ' Unique projects and ideas to create more 'outside the square' ' Step-by-step instruction for projects ' Beautiful colour photographs ' A feast for the eyes and your creative spirit. ' From one of the world's most popular and successful fabric and quilt designers

Traditional Blackwork Design Style & Construcyion NEW!
Jack Robinson
Pub. Flying Machine
Price £20.00 spiral bound
This book is similar to Jack's previous book, "My Methods & Techniques", but from a design point of view. It shows, complete with patterns, the different design styles of the traditional Blackwork period, defined as 1550 to 1630.

Traditional Japanese Embroidery NEW!
Julia D Gray
Pub. Search Press
Price £10.99 spiral bound
Julia shares her passion for this exquisite craft, revealing her in-depth knowledge of the skills and symbolism involved. Detailed instructions reveal the intricacies of working with silk thread and silk fabric, and clear step-by-step photographs show how to create beautiful embroideries inspired by the four seasons.

Transparency in Textiles NEW!
Dawn Thorne
Pub. Batsford
Price £18.99 hardback
Achieving transparency and translucency in textiles is the major new trend. Combine stitch and cloth with acetates, acrylics, perspex, resins and gels. This title provides techniques, projects and inspirational textile art. It uses all the materials that are readily available and safe to use. One of the major new trends in textile art: achieving transparency and translucency through design and with the use of new, harder materials - acrylic, perspex, acetates, fibre optics, gels and resins - in combination with stitch and fabric. The author takes you through the design process for achieving transparency in textiles and then introduces you to the materials, from paper and fabric to acetates, acrylics, perspex, resins and metals. She also explains how to create the illusion of translucency through layers, reflections, shadows, lighting and stitch techniques. The techniques for combining stitch and cloth with these harder materials are covered in detail, along with stunning images of the latest transparent textile art. To get you started, there are projects to make a piece of jewellery, a three-dimensional object and a textile piece combined with lighting.

Twenthieth-Century Fashion in Detail NEW!
Claire Wilcox and Valerie D Mendes
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £19.99 paperback
This glamorous book, part of the V&A Fashion in Detail series, illustrates the intricate details of twentieth-century fashion. Spectaculor photographs, accompanied by expert commentaries and specially commissioned line drawings, focus on fanciful Dior bows, Chanel button-holes and metal springs on a Schiaparelli jacket. This unique study provides an insight into the techniques and craft practices used by couturiers and the construction of these amazing garments. Twenthieth-Century Fashion in Detail will delight all followers of fashion.

V&A Pattern - Indian Florals NEW!
Rosemary Crill
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £7.99 hardback & CD
A stylish and accessible new design series - includes a free CD of high-resolution images and removable belly band

V&A Pattern - The Fifties NEW!
Sue Pritchard
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £7.99 hardback & CD
A stylish and accessible new design series - includes a free CD of high-resolution images and removable belly band

V&A Pattern - William Morris NEW!
Linda Parry
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £7.99 hardback & CD
A stylish and accessible new design series - includes a free CD of high-resolution images and removable belly band.

V&A Patterns - Digital Pioneers NEW!
Honor Beddard & Douglas Dodds
Pub. V&A Publications
Price £7.99 hardback & CD
A stylish and accessible new design series - includes a free CD of high-resolution images and removable belly band

World Textiles A Concise History NEW!
Mary Schoeser
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £7.95 paperback
Available now! Mary Schoeser's groundbreaking book presents a chronological survey of textiles around the world from prehistory to the present day, exploring how they are made, what they are made from, how they function in society, and the ways in which they are used and given meaning. An excellent book with wonderful, inspiring photo's and a steal at £7.95!!!