Embroiderers' Guild Bookshop - Related Textile Techniques

101 Ideas for Embroidery on Paper NEW!
Fortgens, Erica
Pub. Search Press
Price £7.99 paperback
This book offers card designs for many occasions. A good resource for embroiderers and cardmakers alike.

Alphabetica : An A-Z Creativity for Collage and Book Artists NEW!
Perrella, Lynne
Pub. Quarry Books
Price £13.99 paperback
From the author of the popular Artists Journals and sketchbooks, Lynne Parella, now explores what happens if you have 14 artists collaborate on a project based on letters and numbers. Athe artists also have a personal workshop on their technique speciality. If you have a passion for mixed media, then this is the packed with innovative, colourful and bright ideas.

Altered Art, Techniques for creating Altered Books, Boxes & Cards
Taylor, T
Pub. Lark Books
Price £14.95 hardback
Terry Taylor introduces a wide range of projects to stimulate and inspire you. Altered art is one of the fastest growing trends in art today and this book is an invaluable source of ideas, techniques and inspiration.

Altered Books, Collaborated Journals
Harrison, H
Pub. Rockport
Price £14.99 paperback

Arnold Grummer's Complete Guide to Easy Papermaking
Grummer, A
Pub. Krause
Price £14.99 paperback

Arnold Grummer's Complete Guide to Paper Casting
Grummer, A and M
Pub. Krause
Price £10.99 paperback

Artists' Journals & Sketchbooks: Exploring and Creating Personal Pages
Perrella, L
Pub. Quarry Books
Price £14.99 paperback

Bags with Paper & Stitch NEW!
Isobel Hall
Pub. Batsford
Price £18.99 hardback
A guide to amking embroidered bags from handmade and ready-made paper.

Between the Sheets with Angelina; a workbook for fusible fibres BESTSELLER!
Midgelow-Marsden, A
Pub. Art Van Go
Price £9.95 paperback

Cards that Pop Up, Flip & Slide
Michael Jacobs
Pub. North Light Books
Price £14.99 paperback
Everything you need to get started, including clear instructions, easy-to-follow patterns and information on tools, materials and techniques.

Cover to Cover: Creative Techniques for Making Beautiful Books, Journals and Albums
La Plantz, S
Pub. Lark Books
Price £12.95 paperback
This book is an excellent and thorough guide to the techniques of a wide variety of bookbinding methods, both traditional and non-traditional. With many photographic examples of artists' work it is both inspirational and informative.

Creating Books and Boxes NEW!
Benjamin D Rinehart
Pub. Quarry Books
Price £16.99 paperback
Whether you are new to book making or an experienced paper artist this book will provide hours of creative inspiration. Step-by-step instructions are easy to follow yet many of the projects are sophisticated and beautiful.

Creating Sketchbooks for Embroiderers and Textile Artists BESTSELLER!
Greenlees, K
Pub. Batsford
Price £18.99 hardback
This fascinating new book not only gives us a glimpse into the sketchbooks of leading textile artists such as Audrey Walker, Rozanne Hawksley and Amanda Clayton, but also practical suggestions and help with making the most of your own sketchbook. It covers basic aspects like the purposes of, and different approaches to a sketchbook, making a start and presentation. The following are all covered - exploring and storing, investigation and ideas, research and collecting, experimentation, development, recording, analysis, using different media, exploring concepts, and how to make the sketchbook a work of art in itself. This book is an invaluable aid for all students, embroiderers and textile artists of all abilities.

Fabric Art Journals BESTSELLER!
Sussman, P
Pub. Rockport
Price £13.99 paperback

Handmade Silk Paper
Russon, K
Pub. Search Press
Price £9.95 paperback

Making & Keeping Creative Journals
Tourtillot, S
Pub. Lark Books
Price £12.95 paperback
This lovely book clearly explains the art and craft of journal making and writing, covering materials, tools and techniques. Interesting and inspiring with beautiful photographs, this will help you create your own personalised book, journal or sketchbook.

Paper and Beyond
Grey, M & Wilde, J
Pub. Maggie and Clive Grey
Price £14.00

Paper Crafting
Taylor, T
Pub. Lark Books
Price £12.95 paperback

Paper Textiles
Leitner, C
Pub. A&C Black
Price £30.00 hardback

Paper Transformed
Julia Andrus
Pub. Quarry Books
Price £16.99 paperback
With more than 100 of the latest recipes and techniques for making beautiful handmade paper designs.

Print Pattern & Colour NEW!
Ruth Issett
Pub. Batsford
Price £18.99 hardback
Create printed papers and fabrics using techniques such as monoprinting, roller printing, screen printing, printing with found objects, stencils, rubbing and dyed effects. Develop your own pattern designs. Ideal for textile artists, interior print designers and fashion print designers.

Serging for Softies NEW!
Jennie Rayment
Pub. J R Publications
Price £14.95 paperback
Packed with a wealth of information on using a serging machine (or overlocker). The simple designs for bags, boxes, tableware and more, are all sewn completely on the serger/overlocker, but can be adapted to sewing machines.

The Art and Craft of Papermaking: Step-by-step instructions
Dawson, S
Pub. Aurum
Price £14.95 paperback

The Art of Papermaking with Plants
Lorente, M-J
Pub. Thames & Hudson
Price £16.95 paperback
Transform plants including grasses, trees and edible plants such as vegetables into beautiful and unique papers. Clear step-by-step instructions and 50 recipes for different plants offer a stimulating starting point for your own explorations, with the beautiful photographs and gallery of work by nine paper artists offering further inspiration.

The Decorated Journal now in paperback
Diehn, G
Pub. Lark Books
Price £8.99 paperback
This follow-up to the hugely successful Decorated Page offers even more great ideas for beautifying a sketchbook or journal, more superb photos to inspire, and more clever and simple ways to endow even the artistically timid with confidence. Gwen Diehn provides ideas and inspiration and covers practical fundamentals such as choosing materials.

The Decorated Page
Diehn, G
Pub. Lark Books
Price £12.95 paperback
This fascinating book is full of good ideas for anyone who wants to produce a highly individual and special sketchbook, journal or diary. Written by an artist, with many examples of other artists' work, it encourages the reader to develop their own ideas to create something unusual and unique.

The Photo Transfer Handbook
Jean Ray Laury
Pub. C&T Publishing
Price £14.99 paperback
Discover the world of photo tranfer. Anything that can be photocopied or printed on a computer printer can be transferred to fabric. Find out how.