Embroiderers' Guild - the UK's leading crafts association
sharing opportunities for discovery and creativity
Apt 41 Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU
T: 020 8943 1229 - F: 020 8977 9882 - E: administrator@embroiderersguild.com
Embroiderers' Guild - the UK's leading crafts association
sharing opportunities for discovery and creativity
Apt 41 Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU
T: 020 8943 1229 - F: 020 8977 9882 - E: administrator@embroiderersguild.com
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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.
Leading textile artist, Mary Sleigh, has produced a fabulous book called African Inspirations in Embroidery (£14.99). As the title promises this is a really inspiring book. Striking images of Africa are translated into textile art using embroidery, dyeing and mixed media in this beautifully illustrated book. She takes you on a journey starting with gathering and planning your ideas and then how you can use colour, pattern, texture and other techniques to create your own piece of art. African Inspirations is also interspersed with pieces by well known artists that are inspiring and will help to motivate you to get started!
One of our bargains for this month is An Embroiderer's Eye: the Diana Springall Collection, which is a steal at £8.95. It includes some of the principal works from Diana Springall's private collection. There are wonderful images of pieces from some of the top textile artists including Jeanette Appleton, Jan Beaney, Julia Caprara, Jean Littlejohn and Audrey Walker to name but a few.
We now have the latest DVD in the Contemporary Fibre Artists Maker Profile series, £20 (55 min). The featured artist is Audrey Walker and it is a celebration of her work from her beginnings as a student to her work as a textile artist and teacher and features a record of her most recent large piece of work finished in 2009.
All our new titles can be found in the New Books Coming Soon section.
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This is a truly awe-inspiring book! To start with you can unfold the jacket of the book to reveal a chart of a Scottish Sampler (1757) charted by Erica Uten. The Goodhart Samplers is a tribute to Douglas Goodhart, who gifted to the nation one of the most beautiful sampler collections comprising over 120 stunning examples.
Almost every page of this 260-page book contains full colour images of all the samplers including some amazing close-ups and details hard to see in real life. All the pieces are documented by renowned needlework historian Dorothy Bromiley Phelan, Eva-Lotta Hansson, Curator of the Royal School of Needlework and Jacqueline Holdsworth, founder of Needleprint, the publisher of this book.
Anyone who has any interest in needlework will absolutely love this book. Every page is a delightful feast for the eyes. One of my particular favourites is an 1850 sampler including the words "Helen Price it is my name, and in my youth I work'd the same, and by my work you may plainly see, what care my parents took of me. Age'd 11 years Kirkee East India". Charming!
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.
