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	1000 Cross Stitch Motifs NEW! Jan Eaton Pub. Search Press Price £9.99 paperback This collection of 1000 cross-stitch motifs, each presented as an easy-to-follow colour chart, presents cross stitchers with a fabulous resource for incorporation into cards, samplers, pictures, and larger work. The pattern library is divided into eleven different themes for ease of use, and each page is accompanied by a key showing the colours used. Details of motif sizes and thread numbers are given at the end of the library. The introductory section at the start of the book covers the basic techniques and materials, allowing even absolute beginners to start stitching right away. It contains over 1000 fabulous cross-stitch motifs. It is an easy-to-use resource for cross stitchers of all abilities.

	1950s Fashion Print NEW! Marnie Fogg Pub. Batsford Price £20.00 hardback Over 200 stunning 1950's prints, revealing a decade of modernity, innovation and whimsy. Exclusive original artwork and finished prints from leading designers including Lucienne Day, Robert Stewart and Sylvia Chambers. A wonderful creative resource of original print design inspired by the painterly marks of Abstract Expressionism, rock 'n' roll iconography and spikey kinetic art.

	1960s Fashion Print NEW! Marnie Fogg Pub. Batsford Price £16.99 paperback From Biba to Warhol, flower power to psychedelia - this essential sourcebook has over 200 original prints from the 1960's to inspire designers and illustrators in all creative fields. With exclusive illustrations and original artwork from designers as well as finished prints, 1960's Fashion Print will inspire for years to come.

	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.

	400 Art Deco Motifs NEW! Graham McCallum Pub. Batsford Price £12.99 This is a handy motif book with 400 Art Deco motifs, which is one of the most stunning styles, and ideal for all kinds of creative work. The motifs cover Art Deco stylized animals, from eagles to dogs, Art Deco stylized flowers, with roses and daisies and ferns, plus Art Deco patterns that range from the simple to the elaborate. The stunning hand-drawn motifs - which are all included on the accompanying CD - are ideal for all those working creatively. Whether you are a quilter, embroiderer, woodworker, designer or general crafter, there is a motif for you here.

	400 Chinese Motifs NEW! Graham Leslie McCallum Pub. Batsford Price £12.99 This is a handy motif book with 400 Chinese-style motifs, which is one of the most popular styles for all kinds of creative work. The motifs cover Chinese animals, from pandas to dragons, Chinese flowers, with lotus leaves and jasmine and Asian trees, plus Chinese patterns that range from the simple to the elaborately exotic. The stunning hand-drawn motifs - which are all included on the accompanying CD - are ideal for all those working creatively. Whether you are a quilter, embroiderer, woodworker, designer or general crafter, there is a motif for you here.

	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.

	50 Fashion Designers You Should know NEW! Simon Werle Pub. Prestel Price £13.99 paperback The latest volume in Prestel's most successful series profiles the world's top 50 designers, including Armani, Balenciaga, Dior, Galliano, Givenchy, Lacroix, McCartney, McQueen, Quant, Versace and Westwood. Their careers and creations are explored through colourful, double-page spreads, with a timeline to highlight significant events in the designer's life and to outline their accomplishments and influence. Brilliant full-colour reproductions of the designer's works bring their creations to life and illustrate their remarkable contributions to the world of fashion. An essential reference for any fashion lover, student or budding designer.

	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

	A-Z of Thread Painting NEW! Sue Gardner Pub. Inspirations Books Price £17.99 spiral bound The art of painting with a needle is one of the most revered forms of embroidery, but one that is within reach of every embroiderer. This easy to use book will lead you through all the stitches and techniques needed to create your own masterpieces. It showcases dozens of stunning designs from some of the world's best embroiderers. Each design is presented with simple instructions, clear colour photograph, pattern and stitch direction diagram so that you can easily recreate these superb embroideries.

	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.

	Alabama Studio Style NEW! Natalie Chanin Pub. Stewart, Tabori & Chang Price £22.50 hardback From her studio in florence, Alabama, Natalie Chanin, founder and creative director of the acclaimed fashion and lifestyle company Alabama Chanin, works with local artisans to create handmade organic cotton-jersey clothing, plus home decorations, sought by connoisseurs of beauty and sustainable style worldwide. In Alabama Studio Style, a follow up to the celebrated Alabama Stitch Book, Chanin takes her fans on another compelling journey of creativity, technique and inspiration, this time sharing many more of her beautiful stenciling and beading methods, a collection of over 20 projects, including her award-winning dresses and skirts, plus recipes from Southern food expert Angie Mosier. Includes pull out stencil and reusable sewing patterns.

	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.

	Arimatsu Narumi Shibori (DVD) NEW! Pub. Studio Galli Price £23.00 DVD Available now! An English narrated DVD celebrating 400 years of Japanese Artisan design.

	Art Cloth - A Guide to Surface Design for Fabric NEW! Jane Dunnewold Pub. Interweave Press Price £19.99 paperback Fiber artists, art-to-wear designers, and art quilters have a broad range of surface design products to choose from and can use a wealth of technique combinations to create art cloth. But while many artists know how to do one or two surface design processes, few know how to combine processes on one surface effectively. In this title, signature artist Jane Dunnewold teaches you methods for creating rich texture, color, and pattern, integrated into an artistic whole. "Art Cloth" offers up-to-date techniques and adds valuable new information from Jane's years of teaching and experience as an artist. In addition to detailed step-by-step wet-media surface-design techniques, Jane guides and inspires artists to new heights of creativity through sidebars with design tips, exercises, and project ideas that support the technical information.

	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.

	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.

	Best in Show - knit your own dog NEW! Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne Pub. Anova Price £12.99 hardback Best in Show is packed with knitting patterns patterns for adorable dog breeds from a pretty Poodle to a burly Bulldog, a perky Pekinese to a dotty Dalmation. With Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne's designs you can now knit your precious pet, reproduce your favourite breed or knit the dog you have always desperately wanted. As well as patterns for pedigree pooches Sally and Joanna include brief accounts of the characteristics of each breed. There is also a section offering tips and advice on sewing up the dogs. With lavish full-size photography and easy to use patterns you'll soon be knitting yourself a covetable cuddly companion for life.

	Blackwork - RSN Essential Stitch Guides NEW! Becky Hogg Pub. Search Press Price £10.99 spiral bound The Royal School of Needlework teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard, developing techniques in new and innovative ways. Graduate apprentice and tutor, Becky Hogg, shows how to develop many different patterns from the basic blackwork stitches, using detailed instructions and beautiful examples of traditional and contemporary embroideries.

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

	Botanical Sketchbook NEW! Mary Ann Scott with Margaret Stevens Pub. Batsford Price £19.99 hardback A practical masterclass showing one woman's progression from modest flower painter to botanical artist of distinction, through the outstanding sketchbooks she produced for the Distance Learning Course run by the Society of Botanical Artists. Illustrated with exquisite examples of the artist's work, including delicate floral compositions, ripe & juicy fruit and vegitables and intricate botanical studies. Packed with invaluable advice, tips and colour swatches, this remarkable book will provide guidance and endless inspiration.

	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.

	Celtic Alphabets - With Borders and Motifs NEW! Judy Balchin Pub. Search Press Price £10.99 spiral bound This beautiful book contains eleven alphabets in Celtic styles. These marvellously versatile letters can be used to decorate your craft projects. In addition to the alphabets themselves, popular author Judy Balchin has included numerals, borders and motifs as well as modern and traditional Celtic styles. All of the alphabets are presented both in colour and black-and-white for ease of use. This title includes lots of examples of completed craft projects using the alphabets.

	Celtic, Viking & Anglo Saxon Embroidery - The Art & Embroidery of Jan Messent NEW! Jan Messent Pub. Search Press Price £25.00 hardback This book combines everything held dear to the author's heart in a single volume - embroidery, writing, artwork, history and books. Her beautifully executed creations combine myriad materials, including hand-stitched threads, glued papers, fabrics, fibres, paints and beads, and are presented here as a series of 'altered books', each representing a chapter that follows on from the last, and each exploring one of the major themes of the book, including textiles, stitches, clothing and accessories. Historical facts are ingeniously interwoven with contemporary renditions of ancient artworks, bringing to life the ancient skills of Celtic, Viking and Anglo-Saxon women, and celebrating the centuries-old tradition of embroidery in England that has served as a foundation for present-day excellence.

	Classic Fashion Patterns of the 20th Century NEW! Anne Tyrrell Pub. Anova Price £20.00 paperback Working from surviving garments and contemporary tailoring books and patterns, Anne Tyrrell has put together a pattern book of key 20th-century costumes with fascinating historical details on dress. A decade for each chapter, the book features garments such as war uniforms, a 1930s evening gown, a Teddy Boy outfit, a 1960s maxi coat and many more. Wonderful illustrations of period dress are accompanied by information on notable features, underwear and accessories for each period. Scale patterns follow for each outfit shown, complete with detailed notes on making up, using techniques appropriate to the period. A grid for enlargement of the pattern pieces is provided together with full instructions. This is an essential book for any dressmaker interested in recreating period dress, especially film and theatre costume-makers, but also fashion designers looking for inspiration in authentic historical dress of the recent past.

	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.

	Contemporary Botanical Illustration with the Eden Project NEW! Rosie Martin & Meriel Thurstan Pub. Batsford Price £19.99 hardback Brining an exciting fresh approach to botanical illustration, with beautiful paintings that explore bold colour, texture and pattern as well as new approaches to composition, techniques and subject. Winners of the PRACTICAL ART BOOK of the YEAR award, the authors reveal a contemporary twist to this traditional medium. Stunning illustrations of striking and unusual plants fill the book. The paintings are accompanied by clear instructions - many step by step - alongside colour sample, sketchbook pages and worksheets.

	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 Fabric Techniques for Quilters, embroiderers and textile artists NEW! Annette Morgan Pub. Rainbow Disks Price £14.00 New ideas for creating exciting textile surfaces, for quilters and embroiderers, in this CD book in PDF format. Using innovative new techniques, top quilter Annette Morgan explains how to use existing textiles combined with sheer fabrics and stitching to create sumptous new surfaces. She shows how to play with wire frames, wrapping, stitching, burning and applique to make creative squares. Using fabric as a base for piling on texture, she adds paint to give surface decoration. Here are ideas for creating textiles from fabrics and those old pieces in the attic, and for creating new from something old. Learn how to experiment with wadding, to create a textile base with which to work, also how to use your own images, transfer them to fabric and transform with stitch.

	Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator NEW! Kevin Tallon Pub. Batsford Price £18.99 paperback In today's world of fashion, companies are looking for creative people who can communicate their designs quickly and neatly. The challenge faced by designers using computers is to create, produce and deliver ideas on a tight schedule while retaining their creativity. This book is one of the first to show both students and professionals in the fashion industry how to harness the Adobe Illustrator vector-based design package to make technical drawings of garments in a fast and precise way, building a library of trims and design details and how to visualize and render their design ideas. The book's structure is to start at the basics, with clear step-by-step instructions on creating flat drawings of simple items such as vests, skirts and shirts, and gradually moving on to more difficult tasks once the basics have been mastered. Once the reader has learned all the techniques in the book, they will be able to produce in printed and digital format all the common items used by design studios to communicate ideas such as mood boards, illustrations, garment range, sketches, design details and technical design sheets. Adobe Illustrator is the most established and commonly used application in the fashion-design industry. The book will cover both Mac and PC platforms, and the version of Illustrator used - version 10 - is the most established and latest major upgrade.

	Creative Textile Art - Techniques and Projects NEW! Karen Woods Pub. A&C Black Price £16.99 paperback This general introduction to craft projects using textile techniques will appeal to artists and makers at all levels. From creating fabrics, mould making and wireframe construction, to adapting traditional methods and manipulating materials, this book is packed with clever techniques and ideas with textiles. All of the processes are fully illustrated and clearly explained. The ten projects featured offer a finished piece if you follow them step-by-step, or you can use them as a starting point to create something unique.

	Crewel & Surface Embroidery - Inspirational Floral Designs NEW! Trish Burr Pub. Search Press Price £21.99 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.

	Crewelwork - RSN Essential Stitch Guides NEW! Jacqui McDonald Pub. Search Press Price £10.99 spiral bound The Royal School of Needlework teaches hand embroidery to the highest standard, developing techniques in new and innovative ways. Graduate apprentice and tutor, Jacqui McDonald, shows you how to work basic and more complex stitches using detailed instructions and showcases beautiful examples of both traditional and contemporary embroideries.

	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.

	Diana Springall - a brave eye NEW! June Hill Pub. A&C Black Price £24.99 paperback Diana Springall is one of Britain's best-know textile artists. Her 40 year career in textiles includes appointments as a panel lecturer at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and chairman of both the Embroiderers's Guild and the Society of Designer Craftsmen. This book explores the life, work and impact of one the UK's greatest embroiderers and strongest advocate of the craft itself. Diana has been instrumental in promoting embroidery in the Fine Art world, and has been a teacher and mentor to a significant proportion of today's greatest artists working in stitch, including Alice Kettle.

	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.

	Doodle Stitching - The Motif Collection (includes CD) NEW! Aimee Ray Pub. Lark Books Price £11.25 paperback This follow-up to the best-selling "Doodle Stitching" offers fans expanded and updated basics, 400+ easy embroidery motifs on the page and on a CD-ROM sealed in the back of the book, 17 projects and lots of added inspiration. More than a dozen categories include Alphabet, Baby, Celebrations, Embellishments, Space, Trees, Flowers and Woodland Creatures - and each section includes one motif stitched by the author. The motifs on the CD-ROM are in simple black lines, so readers can easily manipulate them using their own image-editing software, print them out and transfer them onto their substrate of choice using the instructions in the book.

	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 APRIL - 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.

	Embroidery on Paper - Alphabet and Festive Motifs NEW! Joke and Adriaan de Vette Pub. Search Press Price £6.99 paperback By combining the techniques with paper decoupage and adding beads, ribbons and shiny stars, this book contains numerous ideas for embellishing the designs for use as greetings cards suitable for Christmas, birthdays, birth congratulations and much more. It provides templates for all of the designs, together with diagrams to assist with the stitching where necessary.

	Experimental Pattern Sourcebook: 300 Inspired Designs from Around the World NEW! Jaqueline Herald Pub. Rockport Price £25.00 paperback This collection features 300 designs from the newest generation of pattern designers who are experimenting with new formats to create the most eclectic and inspiring collection of patterns in a single volume. Many designers are fusing hidden messages in their pattern designs which ultimately show up in a diverse range of materials, not just dye or pigments on fabric. A pattern can be lovely looking or perfectly fitting on the thing that it covers - but it gets more interesting if it gives an annotation on the object to which it is connected. This book features patterns from a diverse range of designers from all over the globe who are pushing the boundaries of textiles and printed materials. The patterns featured are delightful and unexpected.

	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

	Exquisite Evolon NEW! Marian Barnett Pub. Artmixter Price £16.00 paperback Evolon is a microfibre cloth make from polyester with a small amount of nylon fibres included - this is a complete step by step guide to working with this versatile fabric. Including eight unusual projects covering a wide range of techniques, including rust dyeing, heat distressing, printing and stitching.

	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.

	Fabulous Surfaces NEW! Lynda Monk Pub. d4daisy Price £12.00 paperback This book heralds a new departure for d4daisy, introducing their Workshop series. Lynda Monk's book 'Fabulous Surfaces' really scores here as her main 'ingredient' is tissue paper. You just won't believe what she achieves with tissue, old dressmaking patterns and wrapping paper. Lynda presents her ideas in an easy to understand, step-by-step format to make sure that the concepts are clear. Then she gets going with paints, transfer foils and some surprising special effects. By now, you will be ready to extend the basic tissue method and Lynda will include construction techniques such as those for the 'falling books' shown right. Rusting, printing and distressing tissue paper gives results which are both surprising and fascinating. Texture is not overlooked and Lynda has some great new ideas for heat-sensitive polyester tissue. Further texture is achieved by sculpting and cut-outs. How can you resiste Free online classes with this book. Lynda's online workshops have always been very popular and she will have some more for this book, based on extending its ideas even further. The classes will start early in the New Year and, to enter them, you will need to have a copy of the book handy. Sounds like a lot of fun - and they're free once you've bought the book.

	Fashion & Textiles: The Essential Careers Guide NEW! Carol Brown Pub. Laurence King Publishing Ltd Price £17.95 paperback A must for any fashion student. This book provides an in-depth review of the wide-ranging career options available in the fashion and textile industry. It profiles over 50 careers that span the creative, technical, retail and media fields. Clearly defined job profiles are accompanied by interviews with people employed in the industry, giving an invaluable insider's view of the different career paths.

	Fashion Illustration 1930 to 1970 from Harpers Bazaar NEW! Marnie Fogg Pub. Anova Price £17.99 hardback Over 200 of the best fashion illustrations from the archives of the iconic Harper's Bazaar magazine, dating from 1930 to 1970. The stunning collection features artwork from the foremost illustrators of the 20th century, such as Eric Frazer, Christian Berard, Jean Cocteau, Frederic Henrion, Jane Bixby and many more. A fascinating insight into the changing trends and illustration techniques of the 20th century, this beautiful guide is an invaluable resource for fashion historians as well as contemporary fashion illustrators.

	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.

	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.

	From Print to Stitch: Tips and Techniques for Hand-printing and Stitching on Fabric NEW! Janet Edmonds Pub. Search Press Price £17.99 paperback This highly practical and unique book provides clear, step-by-step instructions for adding amazing designs to fabric by printing and stitching. Using a whole range of printing techniques, including block printing, soft-cut lino printing, mono printing and collagraph printing, the author guides you carefully through the process, from initial idea, through the development of a theme, to designing and making a block and creating pattern on paper. Once you are happy with your design, it is transferred to fabric and finally stitching is added to enhance the design. Both machine and hand stitching are used, and there's a useful and extensive stitch library at the back of the book showing the range of stitches you can use. Janet's unique eye for colour is evident throughout the book, which is richly illustrated with numerous partly completed samples to illustrate the author's methods, finished examples of her work, and three-dimensional objects created using printed and stitched fabrics to extend the reader's imagination even further.

	Glimpses of New Zealand NEW! Gail Lawther Pub. Teamwork Price £12.00 paperback Inspired by 'The Land of the Long White Cloud', these gorgeous textiles are snapshots that capture aspects of the landscape, flora, fauna and even the architecture of this stunning country. Using a variety of techniques, Gail has created a series of long, thin wall-hangings (about 100 x 25cm) each concentrating on a single theme. A giant feather inspred by the exotic birdlife, a dreamy night scene of a single tree at the top of a hill, and a shimmering surface that captures the iridescence of a paua shell, introduce a variety of techniques. The mineral pools at Rotorua, renowned for their pungent, sulphurous smell, are easier on the eye than the nose, and the crystallised minerals that dry into colourful crusts provide inspiration for a textile that is a real fusion of quilting and hand embroidery. Simple instruction allow you to reproduce the pieces, but the book will also inspire you to translate your own holiday memories into someting more tangible.

	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.

	Horrockses Fashions: Off the peg Style in the 40's and 50's NEW! Christine Boydell Pub. V&A Publications Price £24.99 hardback Horrockses Fashions draws together fashion photography, textile designs, archival material, personal stories and beautiful dresses to tell the story of one of the most respected ready-to-wear labels on the post-war British High Street.

	Hot Textiles BESTSELLER! Kim Thittichai Pub. Batsford Price £18.99 hardback Burn, layer, melt, distort and shape materials with heat tools to create beautiful textiles. Easy-to-follow instructions using simple equipment such as household irons, soldering irons and heat guns.

	IN ACTION (DVD) NEW! Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn Pub. Double Trouble Price £19.99 DVD In this 2-hour DVD, Jan and Jean share their thoughts and experiences in creating sketches through to beautiful textiles. Known around the world for their textile art and creative workshops they demonstrate a variety of techniques including: fabric paints, dyes, embellishing, knitting, foiling, soluble film, hand and machine stitching. Educational and inspiring, IN ACTION is suitable for the beginner and professional textile artist interested in embroidery, quilting, surface design and fabric art.

	Inchies NEW! Peggy Donda-Kobert Pub. Search Press Price £6.99 paperback Inchies are tiny, creative one-inch squares (2.54 x 2.54cm), and are a new and growing trend in the world of mixed media art. They are perfect for giving your imagination a free rein and for trying out new techniques and materials. You do not need a huge supply of fabric, yarns or embellishments, and most can probably be found in nature, or scattered around the home. In this book, different authors present a range of techniques and designs that will excite and inspire you to create your own versions of these miniature pieces of art. Build up your own collection, transform them into tiny boxes or unique items of jewellery, or use them to decorate bags, purses and keyrings. The possibilities are endless!

	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.

	Inspired - Embellishing Level 1 NEW! Myfanwy Hart Pub. Colouricious Price £17.99 DVD Myfanwy Hart is an experienced textile artist and has been teaching creative textiles for nearly 20 years. In her own work, she uses dyed and decorated papers, hand threads, yarns, fabrics and fibres which are manipulated with the Embellisher.

	Inspired - Embellishing Level 2 (DVD) NEW! Myfanwy Hart Pub. Colouricious Price £17.99 DVD In this DVD you can see the many ways you can create new and exciting surfaces with fabrics and yarns using an embellisher. Introducing muslins, silk tops, silk habotai, organzas and knitted yarns among a wealth of other "rag bag" finds, pushing the creative boundaries of machine needle felting.

	Inspired - Lutradur (DVD) NEW! Ineke Berlyn Pub. Colouricious Price £17.99 DVD Join the Colouricious Workshop led by Ineke Berlyn, a highly respected award winning textile artist, as she teaches you how to experiment with Lutradur. This innovative material works wonderfully in textile art, being coloured with paints, stitched, burned and manipulated in all kinds of way

	Inspired - Transfer Paints (DVD) NEW! Mary Gamester Pub. Colouricious Price £17.99 DVD Transfer paints lend themselves wonderfully to fabric design, quilting and textile art - you will adore the effects you can easily achieve. Using a variety of techniques and processes Mary guides you through the easy to follow chapters. Master the use of transfer paints and you will soon be dreaming up ways to incorporate these new fabrics into all of your textile and mixed media projects

	Inspired Velvet (DVD) NEW! Angie Hughes Pub. Colouricious Price £17.99 DVD Sparkle and glitter your way to success with foils and hot spots. Create enchanting surfaces with velvets as Angie Hughes guides you through 10 inspiring textile techniques. In this textile workshop Angie shows you how to combine velvets with organzas, foils and sweet papers, inks and silk paints to create exciting layers, adding depth to your own work - with this DVD you can learn at your own pace, working through each colouricious chapter

	Introduction to Making Cloth Dolls NEW! Jan Horrox Pub. Search Press Price £9.99 paperback Jan Horrox's exquisitely made cloth dolls become amazingly easy to achieve with the help of this practical book. Full of character and fun to make, the dolls are ideal for using up scraps and oddments of materials, including fabrics, yarns, trims, ribbons, buttons and beads. Step-by-step projects provide all you need to know to make your own gorgeous doll, whatever your ability, and give ideas and inspiration for many more. Clear, step-by-step instructions for making faces, feet and hands, and guidance on materials, equipment and basic techniques. Three projects, and three alternative designs. Full size templates for all the body pieces provided at the back of the book.

	it's just Puff Paint NEW! Sarah Lawrence Pub. CraftyNotions Price £6.50 paperback These ideas book are 'just' that. Ideas and methodologies to get your creative juices flowing. There is an assumption that you will adhere to simple safety guidelines. Also that readers have some basic knowledge of the free-machine/motion work. The instructions are general in nature and open to wider interpretation. I give you permission to play with these and have fun! You will need a basic level of equipment: heat gun, heat resistant surface (hot sheet), sewing machine (for some techniques), scissors, pokey tool, brushes etc..... and, of course, Puff Paint!

	it's just Rusty Stuff A Creative Guide NEW! Sarah Lawrence Pub. CraftyNotions Price £6.50 paperback The following methods to stain and create a 'rusted' surface for creative textiles require only a simple household chemical - vinegar, and water. The methods described in this book are simple, effective and yet give stunning results. The ideas given will, hopefully, get your creative juices flowing and enable you to tread your own path to a personal style of work.

	Jane Austen's Sewing Box: Craft Projects and Stories from Jane Austen's Novels NEW! Jennifer Forest Pub. Murdoch Books Price £14.99 paperback Jane Austen's Sewing Box opens a window into the lives of Regency women during a beautiful period in arts, crafts and design. Jennifer Forest examines Jane Austen's novels and letters to reveal a world where women are gripped by crazes for painting on glass and netting purses, economise by trimming an old bonnet, or eagerly turn to their sewing to avoid an uncomfortable conversation. Based on Jane Austen's novels and with illustrated step-by-step instructions for eighteen craft projects, this beautifully presented book will delight Jane Austen fans, lovers of history and literature and craft enthusiasts alike.

	Journal Quilts NEW! Ineke Berlyn Pub. Ineke Berlyn Price £10.00 paperback Journal quilt projects challenge the maker to create a 'quilt' every month. Members of the Contemporary Quilt Group have risen to the challenge over a number of years and startng with a particular size, members of the group have created 'quilts' inspired by a number of themes. Ineke Berlyn is a regular contributor to the challenge and she uses a variety of techniques to produce these miniature works of art. This book is an inspirational source book and shows the quilts Ineke made for the 2009 and 2010 challenges.

	Julie Arkell BESTSELLER! Pub. Ruthin Craft Centre Price £12.00 paperback A reprint of this popular book, Julie Arkell HOME

	Kaffe Fassett's Quilts En Provence NEW! Kaffe Fassett Pub. Rowan Yarns Ltd Price £18.50 paperback This title includes a gallery of 20 quilts shot on location in France. This, the 12th in the series of Kaffe Fassett's highly successful patchwork and quilting books from Rowan is photographed by Debbie Patterson against the backdrop of the picturesque town of Roussillon in the South of France. Kaffe brings another collection of sumptuous new fabrics to patchwork enthusiasts, showing them how to create his wonderful harmonies of colour in exciting new ways. The Designer Profile in the book highlights the work of Philip Jacobs, whose collections are a mainstay of Rowan fabric's success. The book introduces the new range of fabrics from Rowan, with a gallery of the 20 quilts shot on location, followed by a full shot of the quilt for reference purposes, with the ingredients list of fabrics and full written instructions illustrated with coloured diagrams.

	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.

	Kantha: The Embroidered Quilts of Bengal from the Sheldon and Jill Bonovitz Collection and the Stella Kramrisch Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW! Darielle Mason Pub. Yale Price £40.00 hardback This first book-length study on kanthas published outside of South Asia focuses on two premier collections, one assembled by the legendary historian of Indian art, Dr. Stella Kramrisch, the other by Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz, leading proponents of self-taught art. Created from worn-out garments imaginatively embroidered by women with motifs and tales drawn from a rich regional repertoire, kanthas traditionally were stitched as gifts for births, weddings, and other family occasions. Innovative essays by leading scholars explore the domestic, ritual, and historical contexts of the fascinating quilts in these collections - made between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries in what is today Bangladesh and West Bengal, India - and trace their reinterpretation as emblems of national identity and works of art. Author Biography: Darielle Mason is the Stella Kramrisch Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

	Let's Play with the Flower Stitcher NEW! Dale Rollerson Pub. The Thread Studio Price £6.95 paperback These lovely little books are extremely informative and are filled with colour photographs of wonderful samples. A flower stitcher is a sewing machine foot/attachment and Dale has used it to create an amazing variety of patterns, including a tremendous flower-stitched map of Australia. There are ideas for using straight stitch, zigzag or the built-in stitches of your machine.

	Let's Play with Walnut Ink NEW! Dale Rollerson Pub. The Thread Studio Price £6.95 paperback These lovely little books are extremely informative and are filled with colour photographs of wonderful samples. Often used by calligraphers because it is permanent, walnut ink is used to give an aged look to many different types of papers and fabrics. Whether you are after a gentle sepia tone or striving for a deeper, more aged look, walnut ink can be dropped , sponged, spritzed or flicked onto the surface to create a variety of effects. Dale takes you through the many different techniques from basic experiments to creating texture,adding colour, paper casting and so much more.

	Lovely Lutradur BESTSELLER! Marion Barnett and Dijanne Cevaal Pub. Artmixter Price £16.00 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.

	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.

	Making your Mark NEW! Claire Benn & Leslie Morgan Pub. Committed to Cloth Price £22.50 spiral bound This latest book from Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan of Committed to Cloth (C2C) explores the magic of using everyday tools such as scrapers, rollers, squeeze bottles etc. to create individual, personal marks on cloth or paper. It is the seventh title in C2Cs practical how-to series. With practise and imagination these tools are capable of producing imagery and marks that come from a very direct sense of the makers hand. Their simplicity carries power in that no mark made can ever be exactly repeated, which generates work of real energy and it does not look machine-made. Using the approaches described in this book will enable people to create very personal work; perfect backgrounds for additional imagery, stitch or embroidery - or ready to use for collage or piecing, or for garment and interiors yardage. The 52 pages contain clear step-by-step instructions in Plain English, accompanied by over 100 instructional and inspiring colour images. Recipes for different media such as thickened dyes and discharge paste are included along with guidance on fabric paints and the use of resists. Leslie and Claire also cover how to change the value and consistency of the different media to suit the tool being used. The bonus DVD provides 2 hours of show and tell on using different tools it's the longest DVD to accompany any of the C2C books - a valuable asset as it's just like being on a workshop with Claire & Leslie.

	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.

	Mary Cozens-Walker NEW! 1955-2011 Pub. A&C Black Price £15.00 hardback Mary Cozens-Walker, Slade trained and still stitching her objects of obsession at 73e. Not really a plausible recipe for a proper modern artist! But on closer inspection, Mary Cozens-Walker seems to have arrived in the company of those eccentrics, loners and visionaries who carry the reputation of English eMock Sublimee on their shoulders.very little escapes her wit and loving attention. The maiden aunts make numerous appearances. Mary and her family are the actors in very personal tableaux which are executed in relief, with exquisite craft and in quite breathtaking detail. Nothing escapes her beady eye: from flowers and Christmas tree baubles to terriers and a collection of teapots. Even her breasts are remade in paint and bullion knots while an amorous Anthony nestles in hundreds of forget-me-nots. This 88 page hardcover book contains over 100 full colour illustrations with text by Cozens-Walker herself as well as a number of eminent curators, writers and critics. Together they combine to produce a fascinating and revealing portrait of a remarkable and unusual artist, their words enhanced by beautifully reproduced images of her work. Mary draws with stitch. Hers is a small world. She makes ours larger.

	Micheal & Elizabeth Feller - The Needlwork Collection : 1 NEW! Mary Brooks, Elizabeth Feller, Jacqueline Holdsworth Pub. Needleprint & Ackworth School Estates Ltd Price £40.00 hardback Perhaps only once in your life might you have the chance to view a private, world-class collection of needlework. Even then, there would never be time sufficient to enjoy the fabulous, fascinating detail of these stitched masterpieces. Because these works need dimmed lighting for conservation purposes, seeing them in their full beauty is a rare occasion. However, in this, the first volume of a two volume set, thanks to the generosity of Elizabeth & Micheal Feller who opened up their magnificent collection to expert photography, your opportunity has arrived. From book jacket to embroidered mirror, from coif to needlwork shoes, from a delightful box that once belonged to HRH The Princess Margaret to simple chalice cloth, this volume comprises some of the most beautiful pieces ever to have been stitched over 300 years ago.

	Micro Macrame Beaded Jewellery NEW! Annika deGroot Pub. Search Press Price £12.99 paperback Micro macrame has re-emerged with a gorgeous new twist. Evocative of the Victorian-era macrame lace that decorated fashionable women's shawls and purses, this easy-to-use book updates the art of macrame with a range of stunning beaded jewellery designs. Beautiful and infinitely versatile, learn how to capture the allure of this classic craft by combining it with beads to create stunning items and rival the elegance and intricacy of pieces made years ago, yet they are easy to make and have a contemporary feel. This title includes a comprehensive introduction and the five basic knots you need in order to get started. Detailed step-by-step photographs guide you through every project. It contains a practical advice on choosing the best equipment and supplies available. Suitable for both beginners and experts, this book will appeal to anyone who loves jewellery and beading. It includes 30 glamorous designs for beaded bracelets, earrings, brooches, necklaces and watchstraps.

	Mixed Media: New Studio Techniques NEW! Isobel Hall & Maggie Grey Pub. d4daisy Price £17.00 paperback AVAILABLE EARLY OCTOBER - Two popular authors look at mixed media techniques and produce work ranging from wall-panels to jewellery and vessels. New ideas and materials are introduced, many with step-by-step instructions. You'll find methods for laminating tissue and tea-bag paper onto surfaces that range from silk paper to textured wallpaper. Maggie and Isobel will show you how to use light moulding paste (gives amazing results when pushed through an icing bag) and lots of techniques for distressing paper and fabrics. There's a whole chapter on recycling too, not just materials like lemonade bottles and insect netting but new ideas for the liquidiser and the pasta machine. The authors examine Softsculpt for accents, InkAID (with and without a printer), oiled paper for a range of effects and Crackle Paste for distressing. They also look at Texture Magic for amazing surfaces, while lemonade bottles and insect netting are recycled marvels. Maggie and Isobel show you the basics and then move beyond to encourage your creativity and enable you to adapt the ideas in the book to extend and develop your own work.

	Natural History Painting with the Eden Project NEW! Rosie Martin & Meriel Thurstan Pub. Batsford Price £19.99 hardback The art of Natural History Painting - from 16th-century specimens to Darwin's discoveries - has been given a new lease of life. Award winning authors demonstrate how to capture a myriad of wonderful wildlife on paper, from shells, fossils and bones to fleeting birds & butterflies. Each stage of the painting process is covered, from capturing the moment in sketchbooks and translating tone and detail in pencil drawings to bringing colour and light into your work with waterclour and other media. Packed with practical exercises and techniques for interpreting the textures and patterns of skin, fur and claws and the iridescence of feathers and scales.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	Patterns of Fashion 2 - Englishwomen's dresses and their construction c. 1860-1940 BESTSELLER! Janet Arnold Pub. Pan Price £20.00 paperback No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Illustrated in black and white.

	Patterns of Fashion 3 - The cut and construction of clothes for men and women c. 1560 - 1620 BESTSELLER! Janet Arnold Pub. Pan Price £20.00 paperback No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Illustrated in black and white.

	Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts, Smocks, Neckwear, Headwear and Accessories for Men and Women C. 1540 - 1660 NEW! Janet Arnold Pub. Pan Price £30.00 paperback No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Since her untimely death in 1998, admirers of her work have been waiting, with increasing impatience, for the promised volume devoted to the linen clothes of the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods, a companion to her previous volume on tailored clothes of the same era. Planned and partly prepared by Janet herself, and completed by Jenny Tiramani, Janet's last pupil, no other book exists that is dedicated to the linen clothes that covered the body from the skin outwards. It contains full colour portraits and photographs of details of garments in the explanatory section, as well as patterns for 86 items of linen clothing, which range from men's shirts and women's smocks, from superb ruffs and collars to boot hose and children's stomachers. Beautifully produced, it is an invaluable guide to both the history and the recreation of these wonderful garments.

	Patterns of Fashion: v.1 - Englishwomen's dresses and their construction c.1660-1860 BESTSELLER! Janet Arnold Pub. Pan Price £20.00 paperback No one interested in the history of dress, from art historians to stage designers, from museum curators to teachers of fashion and costume, can function effectively without Janet Arnold's "Patterns of Fashion" series, published by Macmillan since 1964. Illustrated in black. Janet Arnold was a historian of fashion, which combined her two greatest passions: the theatre and clothes.

	Practical Textile Techniques NEW! Ruth Sleigh-Johnson Pub. A&C Black Price £19.99 paperback Practical Textile Tecniques presents an overview of the core textiles techniques: applique; printing onto fabric; stencilling; fabric painting; dyeing; quilting and patchwork; batik; embroidery (and machine); felt-making; weaving; silk painting; fusing and bonding fabric; and, mark-making. Each chapter is packed with unique ideas demonstrating different ways to use the technique as you are learning. It is perfect for fashion and textile students, or anyone with a passion for creative textiles. The cheapest and easiest methods for each technique are explained, and where possible the author covers methods for working on textiles at home, without expensive equipment. The format is strictly practical and step-by-step, with tools and working techniques fully explained and illustrated.

	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.

	Quilting for Peace NEW! Katherine Bell Pub. Stewart, Tabori & Chang Price £11.99 hardback This is a collection of more than 25 heartwarming and inspiring essays about individuals and organizations devoted to making quilts and other necessities for those in need, plus 15 charity projects from organizations profiled in the book. As crafters of all ages take to their sewing machines in unprecedented numbers, many of them join a movement to distribute hope and warmth to those in need through quilting. These are volunteers who have inherited a tradition of comfort and protest and a belief that they can make the world a better place one stitch at a time. "Quilting for Peace", the follow-up to STC's "Knitting for Peace", profiles these quilters in more than 25 essays about individuals and organizations devoted to making quilts and other necessities for the needy. The efforts range from Newborns in Need, a group that makes clothing for premature babies at nearby hospitals to Quilts of Valor, which makes quilts to honour wounded soldiers. This timely book also includes 15 projects and guidelines for quilters who want to contribute to an existing effort or establish a new one.

	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.

	Quited Bags with Style NEW! Ellen Kharade Pub. Cico Price £12.99 paperback 25 Charming, contemporary designs show you how to create speedy style from scratch. Full advice for beginners and experienced quilters reveals how to create a stylish range of shoppers, handbags and evening bags from scraps and leftovers. Clear step-by-step artworks, templates and a techniques section offer start to finish expert instructions. Lastigly stylish and quick-to-create projects range from a sturdy floral beach tote to bow trimmed ladies' bags and glitter-embellished gift bags. over 250 colour photographs, illustrations and templates.

	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.

	Sadi Thread and Shisha Glass Embroidery NEW! Betty Luke Pub. Sally Milner Publishing Price £15.99 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.

	SCISSORS - Comfort Scissors - black BESTSELLER! Price £6.50 The finger bows are slightly larger than normal on these sharp-pointed scissors. Finished in black.

	SCISSORS - Comfort Scissors - gold BESTSELLER! Price £6.50 paperback The finger bows are slightly larger than normal on htese sharp-pointed scissors. Finished in gold.

	SCISSORS - Fine-pointed scissors BESTSELLER! Price £6.50 Cut up to the points. Good for silks.

	SCISSORS - Goldwork Scissors BESTSELLER! Price £6.50 Micro serrations on one blade grip the metal thread and allow a quicker, cleaner cut.

	SCISSORS - Reverse applique scissors BESTSELLER! Price £6.50 Make a small incision using the pointed blade then put the button-nosed blade into the incision. The button-nose separates the layers so that you won't snag the bottom layer of fabric.

	SCISSORS - Total Control Scissors BESTSELLER! Price £6.50 These strange looking scissors are designed for precise cutting on techniques such as stumpwork, Hardanger etc.

	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.

	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

	Stitch Alchemy NEW! Kelli Perkins Pub. Interweave Press Price £16.99 paperback "Stitch Alchemy" teaches techniques for integrating paper and cloth to create quilted mixed media art. Blend the versatility of paper with the dimensional qualities of cloth for paper-cloth, which can be easily transformed into collaged quilts using a variety of embellishment techniques from painting to stitching, needlefelting to beading. Paper-cloth is appealing to many artists because it's inexpensive, and requires less space, equipment, and skill than dyeing fabrics for quilt making. Yet the end results provide layers of complexity and textural appeal. Paper-cloth can also be used to make a wide variety of mixed media projects including art quilts, art dolls, jewelry, artist books, and more. In this book, readers will learn step-by-step techniques for making basic paper-cloth, adding color and interest to the foundation with inks, stains, paints, and glazes, how to texturize, printmaking techniques, effects, and more. It includes ten projects that range from bookmarks, paper beads, a journal cover, an inspiration deck, pocket book, and more. A multi-contributor photo gallery will inspire. Artists and crafters interested in altered art, found and recycled art, needle felting and nontraditional elements will be drawn to "Stitch Alchemy", the first book to cross mediums and show how to blend the versatility of paper with the dimensional qualities of cloth.

	Stitch, Rhythms & Patterns NEW! Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn Pub. Double Trouble Price £19.99 paperback Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn show how to observe the amazing rhythms and patterns that surround us in every day life. From these they develop unique designs and convert them into marvellous textile art using a wide range of exciting techniques. 96 pages full of inspriation and wonderful artwork in glorious colour.

	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.

	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.

	STITCHSCAPES NEW! Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn Pub. Double Trouble Price £19.99 paperback The very popular subject of landscapes is presented with a fresh 'twist". The emphasis is on 'Scapes' whether land, sea, sky or other. Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn reveal their design processes and share their techniques in a way that can only stimulate the reader to look and create. Stitchscapes is 96 pages full of information, inspiration and wonderful artwork in glorious colour.

	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.

	Stumpwork and Goldwork Embroidery: Inspired by Turkish, Syrian and Persian Tiles NEW! Jane Nicholas Pub. Sally Milner Publishing Price £29.99 hardback The research and embroidery involved in creating the designs for this book has been a joy for Jane Nicholas. She has revelled in the opportunity to indulge a passion of hers since childhood - combining jewel-like colours, gold metallic threads and glittering beads. Sixteen projects are presented in this book, varying both in size and complexity. Each has been inspired by an example of Islamic art - pottery, textiles, manuscripts or jewellery - from Turkey, Syria, Persia, Arabia or India.

	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.

	Tapestry in the Renaissance - Art and Magnificence NEW! The Metroplitan Museum of Art Pub. Yale University Press Price £40.00 hardback Tapestries were a principal aspect of the ostentatious 'magnificence' used during the Renaissance by powerful religious and secular rulers to broadcast their wealth and might. This sumptuously illustrated book presents the first major survey of tapestry production between 1460 and 1560 and it catalogues the first monographic loan exhibition of tapestries in the United States in twenty-five years. It highlights the finest tapestry cycles of the age as one of the greatest achievements of Renaissance Art. Examples from many of the most important surviving sets - which still dazzle today as they did 500 years ago in the palaces and cathedrals of Europe - illustrate the contribution that the medium made of the Art, liturgy and propaganda of the time. This study focuses on the stylistic evolution of the tapestry design in the Netherlands beginning with the development by Netherlandish designers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries of an aesthetic that emphasised narrative and decorative qualities. During the 1510s, 1520s and 1530s, commissions by Pope Leo X and other Italian patrons resulted in the despatch of tapestry cartoons by Italian artists - notably Raphael and his assistants - to Brussels, the main center of high-quality production, thus introducing Roman High Renaissance asthetics to Northern Tapestry design. Therafter Netherlands artists like Bernaert van Orley and his followers melded this Italian influence with their local traditions of tapestry design to produce a rich aesthetic that was ideally suited to the medium.

	Textile Adventures - mixed media and stitch NEW! Isobel Hall Pub. Isobel Hall Publishing Price £17.00 paperback Popular international tutor and author Isobel Hall is renowned for making beautiful, exquisite useable, robust items. In this, her fourth book, Isobel sets out to entice you to work with interesting materials that are both cheap and easily available. In Textile Adventures she looks at unusual ways for working with - Scrimmy papers, baby wipes, bubble wrap, weed suppressant and plain flour. Throughout this book you will be encouraged to explore exciting mixed media techniques used by the artist to create unique bags, vessels, books and wall art.

	Textile Art Textile: No. 1 NEW! Val Holmes Pub. word4word Price £19.95 paperback Textile art and creative embroidery are increasingly popular and there are more and more books on the subject constantly exploring new techniques, materials and products. But we tend to forget that beginners also need to know the things that are so often taken for granted. New experimental books open the horizons for many who are already well on the road to successful textile work, but can also close doors for those who feel left behind. In this series of books Val Holmes sets out a course to follow or individual chapters on different techniques for those who wish to know more about those areas. This first book includes tried and tested techniques that help beginners with their first successful results. The methods are clearly explained, and further experiments are suggested so you can gradually find your own pathway enjoying and creating in textile media and embroidery.

	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.

	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 of the Islamic World NEW! John Gillow Pub. Thames & Hudson Price £45.00 hardback This beautiful volume offers a sumptuously illustrated, region-by-region survey of textiles made, worn, used and displayed in the Islamic world. The text includes details of dozens of textile techniques, such as loom types, materials, forms of decoration and local specialities, paired with specially taken colour images of textiles on display, photographs of weavers and dyers in action, and rare historical material.

	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 Bag Making Bible NEW! Lisa Lam Pub. David & Charles Price £14.99 paperback From a tiny purse to a multi-tasking tote, you can make bags in all sorts of shapes and sizes, but the finishing touches can make the difference between a home-made look and a very professional finish. Each section looks at a specific area, from choosing fabrics, adding linings and pockets, handles and straps, to edgings and trimmings. Every stage is well described and accompanied by clear photographs to help you to achieve beautiful results, and the fold-out at the back of the book includes full-size patterns for the eight bags featured in the book.

	The Bayeux Tapestry Embroiderers' Story NEW! Jan Messent Pub. Search Press Price £15.00 paperback Who were the embroiderers of the Bayeux Tapestry? What were their tools, their materials, and how could such a massive project have been designed and organised? These questions and many others have been avoided for so long due to a lack of hard facts, but in this book the author has drawn upon her own experience as an embroiderer and artist to piece together all the clues she could find in the tapestry itself. After extensive research, Jan Messent has compiled a fascinating and colourful account which will help to place this famous embroidery in a plausible context. This new study is essential reading for anyone wishing to know more about The Bayeux Tapestry Embroiderers.

	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 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 Found Object in Textile Art NEW! Cas Holmes Pub. Anova Price £19.99 hardback Textile artists have always used found objects, both for decoration and to imbue their work with meaning, and recently the practice has become even more popular. Cas Holmes is renowned for her use of 'the found', and her many-layered, atmospheric pieces have been shown around the world. The practice differs from recycling in that the objects often remain 'themselves' when they are incorporated into the work. The work is often conceived and built around the found object. The definition 'found object' can include a wide range of objects, from natural materials such as driftwood and leaves to old bits of machinery and vintage fabrics. Mundane objects such as CD cases can be used to create stunning pieces of art, or more sentimental items such as old jewellery can lend deep meaning to a work. This book contains a wealth of techniques and inspiration for incorporating found objects into your textile work. Cas Holmes is one of UK's most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College. She has written for magazines including The Quilter.

	The Gentle Art of Quilt Making NEW! Jane Brocket Pub. A&C Black Price £20.00 hardback "The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making" is a charming, inspirational and practical guide for would-be quilters. Leading author Jane Brocket presents over 15 quilt designs and weaves a narrative around each one. Each quilt story considers the sources of inspiration - including quilters, quilt styles, quilting communities, colours, patterns, films, places and painters. There's a Russian Shawl Quilt, inspired by Russian shawls, traditional motifs of Russian folk art constructed with ever-smaller nesting squares in blacks, golds, pinks, reds and emerald greens, a Floral Frocks Quilt inspired by summer dresses, flower gardens and herbaceous borders - exuberant colours and big florals pieced together in strips, and a Suits and Ties Quilt reusing sober woollen suiting contrasting with extravagant silk ties with geometric squares inspired by Gee's Bend work-wear quilts. Finally, a practical section covers all the practical knowledge you'll need - from hand-quilting and sandwiching to binding, storage and caring for your quilt. Confidently armed with all the design tools you need, you can embark on your own quilting journey and begin creating your own personal quilting masterpiece.

	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 Joy of Ice and Rust NEW! Sally Sparks Pub. Out of Hand Price £14.50 paperback Travelling can be a wonderful source of inspiration , but when those travels entice you to take a walk on the wild side and experience the Antarctic wilderness, it certainly eclipses the usual tourist brochure trips. The wildlife and the colours of the sea, sky, ice and wastelands provided Sally with immediate inspiration, but it was the colours and textures that she found in the rusting, abandoned whaling stations that became an obsession. Using photographs and sketches, she describes the journey that she undertook to develop a body of work that would take her from rust to fabric art. Using a wide variety of materials including embossed handmade papers, fabrics and even handmade nails from her rust collection, Sally translates the qualities of the creased crushed corrugated iron and disintegrateing factories into textiles.

	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 Perfect Handmade Bag Recycle and reuse to make 35 beautiful totes, purses and more NEW! Clare Youngs Pub. Cico Price £12.99 paperback Stylish Bags that won't cost the earth. The Perfect Handmade Bag has gorgeous totes, clutches, shoppers, oversized hold-alls, gym bags, shoulder bags, make-up purses, drawstring bags and more. Each one is specially designed to recycle the spare materials you have around the home, so you can achieve professional results at a fraction of the costs. The results are so striking you'll want to carry one of these bags with you all the time, eliminating the need for environmentally unfriendly plastic bags, or the drab own-brand replacements the stores have on offer.

	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.

	Thread Painting - Simple Techniques to Add Texture and Dimension NEW! Leni Levenson Wiener Pub. Krause Price £15.99 paperback Fabric is your canvas and needles and threads your brushes and paints. Gone are the days of searching endlessly for that "perfect" fabric with the texture and dimension you are looking for. Unleash your artist within and get perfect results every time! Throughout the pages of Thread Painting, Leni Levenson Wiener shows you a new and easy way to "paint" with thread using inkjet-printable fabric or ready-made fabrics to create artwork you can use with any sewing or quilting projects.

	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

	Three Dimensional Textiles with coils, loops,knots & nets NEW! Ruth Lee Pub. Batsford Price £19.99 hardback Create stunning two and three dimensional structures with simple techniques that need no machinery and no looms, perfect for textile artists looking for fresh and exciting ideas. Innovative approaches from renowned textile artist Ruth Lee include working with knots, wrapping and binding, coiling, twining and creating nets, strings & chains. Includes advice on making your own cordage, decorative embellishment and incorporating unusual fibres, fabrics and objects to create unique and individual textiles. Each technique is explained with step by step instructions and diagrams, while stunning textile work throughout provides inspiration for taking your ideas further.

	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 £8.50 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!!!

	Zandra Rhodes: Textile Revolution: Medals, Wiggles and Pop 1961-1971 NEW! Samantha Erin Safer Pub. ACC Distribution Price £25.00 paperback As a young, eager, and talented textile student, Zandra Rhodes, took inspiration from the Pop movement encircling her at the Royal College of Art and the energy and personalities that put London on the fashion map. Zandra Rhodes was one of the most pioneering and influential textile designers of the late 1960s and 1970s who took her remarkable pop art inspired fabrics and revolutionized the fashion world. This book highlights Rhodes's early textile designs from her years at the Royal College of Art, to her first foray into the fashion world with designs for the legendary Swinging London duo Foale and Tuffin, to the launch of her eponymous collection as well as special commissions for Jacqmar, &Vice Versa, and Sekers Pty Australia. The book features stunning photography of never seen before textiles, drawings, and archival images combined with fashion photography by Clive Arrowsmith, Guy Bourdin, Henry Clarke, David Bailey, Helmut Newton, and Richard Traeger.

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