Practical Guides | Techniques | Projects

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...

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,...

Louise Taylor Hardcover | 23.5 x 2.92 x 26.92 cm | 287 pp Chronicle Books | 2011 | 9781452101620 Brimming with more than 700 full-colour photos and illustrations, this is the definitive guide for serious ceramics practitioners. Inside are step-by-step instructions on moulding, firing, and...

Softcover | 24.77 x 1.27 x 35.56 cm | 88 pp Laurence King | 2013 | 9781780671017 This was the first book to look at an increasingly popular form of street art: the paste-up or 'wheatie'. Many street artists don’t graffiti or stencil any more...

Jeanette Barnes  & Paul Brandford Hardcover | 19.63 x 2.49 x 25.27 cm | 272 pp Batsford | 2022 | 9781849946902 Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere. Mercurial, inspirational, practical and...

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,...

Alistair O'Neill Hardcover | 21.79 x 3.28 x 26.97 cm | 304 pp Lannoo | 2021 | 9789401476058 Developed in collaboration with the fashion programme at Central Saint Martins, Exploding Fashion examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design....

Michael Segalov & Owen Jones Softcover | 14 x 1.8 x 19.7 cm | 208 pp Laurence king | 2018 | 9781786272171 Resist! is the indispensable how-to guide for people looking to make a stand. Included are solid pieces of advice, practical tips and inspirational stories from those...

Koos Eissen & Roselien Steur Softcover | 18.92 x 2.03 x 25.78 cm | 204 pp BIS Publishers | 2019 | 9789063695347 Sketching: The Basics concerns the study of drawing form for designers. It is aboutlearning to draw efficiently by employing different techniques, both manual and digital. Drawing...

Gerhard Heufler, Michael Lanz & Martin Prettenthaler Softcover | 16 x 1.5 x 21 cm | 244 pp Niggli | 2019 | 9783721209884  Design Basics offers a professional yet compact introduction to industrial design, written by specialists in the field with years of experience as...