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Welcome to the Embroiderers' Guild bookshop. We hope you will enjoy browsing through the huge range of embroidery and textile books we stock, using the categories in the menu on the right. Our endeavour is to bring you the best selection we can of specialist embroidery and related interest titles, and to make sure you get the right book for you. Do if you want to know more about a title - we're always happy to help.

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cover image Art Cloth by Jane Dunnewold
£19.99 Paperback
Published by Interweave Press

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.

cover image Thr3fold - issue 05 by Laura Kemshall, Linda Kemshall & Catherine Nicholls
£17.95
Published by Thr3fold

This is the fifth book in the series, and has the theme of 'The Face' which underpins many of the articles and inspires one of the challenges, 'Face Book' which sees the authors create a sketchbook and a quilt or painting. One challenge is not enough though and the team also work with the idea of taking a traditional hand embroidery stitch and involving it in a brand new piece of work. Complementing the Challenge articles are a range of other features on topics ranging from hand knitting, needle felting and masks together with the always popular Diary of a Quilt section. Complementing the package, the CD also contains a folder of Extras. Tucked away here are copyright free images relating to the topics in the journal and printable patterns to help with the projects.

cover imageStumpwork and Goldwork Embroidery: Inspired by Turkish, Syrian and Persian Tiles by Jane Nicholas
£23.99 hardback
Published by Sally Milner Publishing

AVAILABLE FROM 31ST JULY 2010 - 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.

NEW DVDS - with these DVDs you can learn at your own pace working through each chapter. Available soon to order from the web site.

cover image INSPIRED - Embellishing Level 1
Myfanwy Hart
£17.99 paperback

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.

cover image INSPIRED - Embellishing Level 2
Myfanwy Hart
£17.99 paperback

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.

cover image INSPIRED - Lutradur
Ineke Berlyn
£17.99 paperback

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.

cover image INSPIRED - Transfer Paints
Mary Gamester
£17.99 paperback

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.

cover image INSPIRED - Textile Landscapes
Gilda Baron
£17.99 paperback

Fall in love with Gilda Baron's textile landscapes; be captivated by her use of colour, texture, paint and stitch. In this 10 chapter workshop Gilda shares with you the secrets behind creating these atmospheric textile 'painting', with easy to follow demos suitable for beginners. For those more familiar with Gilda's work you will enjoy seeing how these breath-taking landscapes grown and bloom in front of your own eyes.

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You can visit the bookshop at Hampton Court on weekdays, 10.00am to 4.30pm. Please always telephone first to make sure that the shop will be open (particularly if you are making a special journey), as occasionally we have to close because of unforeseen circumstances.

If you can't get to Hampton Court, our mobile bookshop is out and about at a number of events around the country every year. See where you can find us in 2010...