Craft

C. June Barnes Hardcover | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2012 | 9781849940252 Quilt art doesn't have to be flat. These days, the most innovative quilt artists are creating intricate raised structures, using various folding, gathering, pleating, stuffing, padding,...

Suzanne L. Marchand Hardcover | 16.51 x 3.18 x 24.13 cm | 544 pp Princeton University Press | 2020 | 9780691182339 Porcelain was invented in medieval China - but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of...

Val Holmes Softcover | 20.96 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2010 | 9781906388751  Embroiderers recycle for many different reasons: to conserve old pieces of ephemera for the future, to give their work a personal touch, to convey meaning, or simply...

Hardcover | 26 x 4 x 33 cm | 398 pp Poligrafa/Lelong | 2012 | 9782868820792 Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with the earthly and mundane. The research for this catalogue...

Hardcover | 23.5 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 252 pp Princeton University Press | 2022 | 9780691220376  One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives of women’s bodies and their...

Richard Deming & Marianne Mays Hardcover | 24.7 x 1.8 x 15.9 cm | 128 pp Coracle | 2012 | 9780906630457 The colour black has long held a fascination in art, craft and design. dubh: Dialogues in black looks at black as both a physical and...

Maggie Grey Hardcover | 28.6 x 1.9 x 22.2 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2008 | 9781906388027 This book is about taking an image - a drawing, painting, digital photograph, computer design or photocopy - and, using simple methods, turning it into a piece of...

Val Holmes Hardcover | 22.9 x 1 x 30.5 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2016 | 9781849943444 Beginning with a step-by-step guide to constructing a simple fabric corset, the book goes on to explore more contemporary and experimental approaches to construction, from using...

Stephen Duckworth Hardcover | 24.38 x 1.83 x 29.97 cm | 160 pp ACC | 2017 | 9781851498710 A multitude of colourful and naïve biblical and other religious pottery figures found their way into 19th century Victorian homes in Britain. They were bought by tradesmen,...

Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Rainald Franz & Bärbel Vischer Softcover | 19.99 x 0.81 x 24.92 cm | 64 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2021 | 9783897906372 Text in English and German Wurm’s anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures, their forms oscillating between the ephemeral and the physical, are characterised...

Francesca Sterlacci & Barbara Arata-Gavere Softcover | 25.7 x 1.9 x 29.8 cm | 352 pp Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786271969 Pattern making, patternmaking, pattern cutting or flat patterning, are all words that describe the process of creating a two-dimensional diagram or template of a...

Boxed Postcard set | 11.75 x 2.86 x 16.19 cm  Chronicle | 2020 | 9781452178653 30 Postcards (six letter-pressed) + A2 fold-out pamphlet This set is a celebration of printing history and wood type. Housed in a deluxe box with a letterpress-printed wood veneer sleeve,...

Hugh Belsey & Christopher Wright Softcover | 17 x 0.3 x 24.4 | 40 pp Paul Holberton Publishing | 2002 | 9781903470084 Rare edition Gainsborough's pictures through the popular imagination as manifest in objects and consumer products - ceramics and cigarette cards to fiction,...

Hardcover | 14.8 x 0.7 x 21 cm | 64 pp Touchstones Rochdale | 2018 Rachel Kneebone’s work has been described as ‘sculptural choreography’, the expression of physical metamorphosis and dynamic movement. The Dance Project (Touchstones, Rochdale, 2018–19) was an exhibition of sculptures and...

Max Donnelly Hardcover | 18.03 x 2.03 x 19.81 cm | 144 pp Thames & Hudson | 2021 | 9780500480700 Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) is one of the most influential British designers of all time and he is widely regarded as Britain’s first independent industrial designer....

Gregory Jones Hardcover | 19.69 x 1.65 x 24.16 cm | 312 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397175 William Harry Rogers was one of the finest artist-designers of the Victorian period in Britain, to be considered in the same company as Pugin, William Burges, Owen...

Sandra Meech Softcover | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2013 | 9781849941112 Award-winning contemporary quilt artist Sandra Meech explains how to harness your own creativity to add innovation and depth to your quilt and embroidery work. In Creative Quilts,...

Vixy Rae Hardcover | 15.3 x 2.54 x 19.3 cm | 304 pp Black & White Publishing | 2023 | 9781785305207 Tartan is so much more than just a cloth. From its clan origins in the Scottish Highlands to the catwalks of Milan, London and...

Hardcover | 19.46 x 1.22 x 23.57 cm | 116 pp Richter Verlag | 2005 | 9783937572314 Text in English and German This book is the catalogue of Richard Deacon's 2005 exhibition, The Size Of It. Ninety-two small ceramic studies were placed along one side...

Kate Hodges Softcover | 16.76 x 2.16 x 21.59 cm | 176 pp Quadrille | 2021 | 9781787137189 Rock, Paper, Scissors is a collection of creative, fun, sense-stimulating things you can do with very simple materials: stones, paper and scissors. From land art to science experiments,...