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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...

Els van Baarle & Cherilyn Martin Hardcover | 24.1 x 1.3 x 27.9 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2017 | 9781849944366 An inspirational and practical book on how to interpret and collaborate on different themes in textile art. With foreword by Marie-Therese Wisniowski, who runs...

Bethan Ash Hardcover | 21.6 x 1.6 x 27.6 cm | 128 pp Batsford | 2011 | 9781849940092 Bethan Ash’s rich, colourful quilts are created using improvisational collage techniques. Working instinctively, she simply layers fabric shapes onto a prepared background and fuses them down,...

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 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...

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,...

Gail Mallatratt Hardcover |  30.4 x 2.2 x 25.8 cm | 128 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781838395339 This vibrant book celebrates the printmaking works of Gail Mallatratt. Making Nowhere Somewhere takes us through Mallatratt's reactions to her family background and formative years,...

Softcover | 20.78 x 2.08 x 25.15 cm | 248 pp ACC | 2014 | 9781851497676 Text in English with a summary in Italian In Fashion by Chance Italian fashion designer Cleonice Capece provides a vivid and richly documented account of how creativity, entrepreneurial...

Venetia Porter & Amy de la Haye Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 160 pp Unicorn Press | 2018 | 9781911604563 Starting in 1966, Thea Porter designed clothes for the rich and famous for nearly two decades. Her creations were made from...

Philippa Bernard Hardcover | 16.21 x 1.4 x 23.8 cm | 144 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781739164010 In 1972 Leo and Philippa Bernard bought Chelsea Rare Books, a small antiquarian bookshop in the King’s Road, Chelsea, advertised for sale in The Times....

John Cyr Hardcover | 21.92 x 2.01 x 26.82 cm | 144 pp powerHouse Books | 2014 | 9781576876879 Developer Trays is master photography printer John Cyr's tribute to the craft and art he has spent his career perfecting. There remain few but extraordinary and dedicated...

Svetlana Alpers Hardcover | 17.15 x 3.81 x 24.77 cm | 416 pp Princeton University Press | 2020 | 9780691195872 Walker Evans (1903–75) was a great American artist photographing people and places in the United States in unforgettable ways. He is known for his work...

Hardcover | 25.4 x 1.8 x 30 cm | 108 pp Damiani | 2015 | 9788862084185 Caleb Cain Marcus journeyed fifteen hundred miles along the Ganges River to make 'Goddess', which offers glimpses into moments when the façade of reality dissolves and the presence of...

Hardcover | 25.4 x 1.78 x 27.94 cm | 112 pp Center for American Places | 2009 | 9781935195009  The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 officially opened the Great Plains to westward settlement, and the public survey of 1855 by Charles A. Manners and Joseph...

Daniel Blau Hardcover | 29.85 x 3.3 x 23.5 cm | 336 pp Hirmer | 2017 | 9783777428130 No other photographer has caught the sensations, scandals and catastrophes of the 1930s and 1940s in New York City with his camera as captivatingly as Weegee. He...

Peter Richmond Softcover | 13.97 x 3.25 x 21.59 cm | 576 pp Picador | 2007 | 9780312426613 "I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, and Mr. Cary Grant." So said Miss Peggy Lee. Albert Einstein adored her; Duke Ellington dubbed her "the Queen." With...

Jimmy McDonough Hardcover | 16.19 x 3.18 x 24.45 cm | 304 pp Da Capo Press | 2017 | 9780306822674 With songs like "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," and "Tired of Being Alone," Al Green is considered by many to be...

Daryl Easlea Softcover | 15.88 x 4.32 x 23.5 cm | 356 pp Omnibus Press | 2020 | 9781785588440  With their era-defining music and instantly recognisable look, Chic's reputation as pioneers of disco has endured long after the movement itself. A must-read for any disco...

Art Garfunkel Hardcover | 13.46 x 2.79 x 21.08 cm | 256 pp Random House | 2017 | 9780385352475 From the golden-haired, curly-headed half of Simon & Garfunkel - a memoir (of sorts); moving, lyrical impressions, interspersed throughout a narrative, punctuated by poetry, musings, lists...

Katie Treggiden Hardcover | 21.59 x 2.54 x 26.67 cm | 224 pp Ludion | 2023 | 9789493039896 We live in a single-use society, where fashion is fast, disposability is the norm and it is easier to replace than to repair. We don’t need to...