Practical Guides | Techniques | Projects

Lucy Alexander & Timothy Meara Softcover with exposed-spine half-binding | 19.05 x 3.7 x 24.6 cm | 256 pp Ilex Press | 2019 | 9781781575994 Explore and expand your creative skill set with Central Saint Martins Foundation. Guided by key lessons from college tutors, you'll learn to...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 11.5 x 1.1 x 14.8 cm | 128 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2013 | 9780953107353 Looking At Art (With Your Eyes Closed) contains Michael Atavar's teaching from his three courses at Tate. The book helps you to build a relationship with...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 12 x 1.6 x 18 cm | 272 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2011 | 9780953107322 12 Rules of Creativity is a book of twelve practical steps that help to stimulate your creativity. Michael Atavar guides you through the basic principles...

Michael Atavar Softcover | 12 x 1.4 x 18 cm | 256 pp Kiosk Publishing | 2016 | 9780953107346  This book uses your unique creative power to generate new ideas, inspiring both you and those around you. Michael Atavar offers you twenty-four techniques for...

Demetrius Fordham Hardcover | 12.7 x 2.54 x 18.73 cm | 224 pp Ilex | 2015 | 9781781572696 Outpace the competition and put your photography skills to work with this enlighteninghard-working, no-nonsense guide to professional shooting in the real world. Passing on hard-earned lessons from his successful business, Demetrius Fordham shows how to...

Rob Ryan Softcover | 20.83 x 2.03 x 26.42 cm | 176 pp Thames & Hudson | 2018 | 9780500294185  Paper crafts are as old as paper itself, with a profusion of different techniques and traditions originating around the world. Paper is affordable, ephemeral and...

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,...

Christine Medley Softcover | 21 x 0.8 x 27.4 cm | 140 pp Dover Publications | 2020 | 9780486837192 How To Print Anything On Everything offers 12 easy-to-follow projects demonstrate time-honoured printing techniques. An introduction to tools, materials and equipment is followed by chapters...

Joy Jolliffe Softcover | 18.4 x 1.3 x 24.1 cm | 144 pp Pavilion | 2016 | 9781910904886 Joy Jolliffe demonstrates that printing is a simple, effective way to make your mark on a multitude of surfaces from clothes to bedding. The book features chapters on...

Laurie Wisbrun Softcover | 21.6 x 1.6 x 27.8 cm | 208 pp A & C Black | 2011 | 9781408147009 The Complete Guide to Designing and Printing Fabric is a comprehensive handbook covering everything there is to know about designing and printing fabric....

Rayna Fahey Hardcover | 19.94 x 1.52 x 20.96 cm | 96 pp Herbert Press | 2017 | 9781912217045 Annoyed? Upset? Distraught? Want to stab a sharp object into something? Then this book is for you. Inspired by the banners and signs at marches around...

Connie Amaden-Crawford Softcover | 21 x 1.5 x 27 cm | 184 pp Fairchild Books | 2014 | 9781472529459  Featuring easy-to-follow instructions on all the main basic and intermediate skills required to sew garments from a pattern, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques is an excellent resource for fashion...

Zeena Shah Softcover | 20.19 x 1.65 x 25.27 cm | 160 pp Quadrille Publishing | 2022 | 9781787138407 Marbling shows you how to create and transfer colourful patterns onto paper, fabric and objects. Zeena Shah shows how accessible marbling can be as an upcycling...

Pamela Vanderlinde Softcover | 21.59 x 1.35 x 27.94 cm | 216 pp Bloomsbury | 2021 | 9781350094673 Patternmaking for Dress Design guides you through the history of 9 iconic dress designs to show how they continue to inspire contemporary designers and the patternmaking techniques you'll need to...

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...

Gina Wilde  Hardcover | 21.8 x 1.7 x 27.9 cm | 128 pp Potter Craft | 2008 | 9780307393548 Shibori Knits highlights the intersection between shibori and knitting, offering 20 patterns that utilise this transformative technique. Internationally acclaimed knitwear designer Gina Wilde guides knitters through three...

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,...

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...

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...