Practical Guides & Creative Development

This collection brings together practical guides, techniques and projects across the arts, from drawing, photography and printmaking to sewing, quilting, crafts and design, alongside books on creative thinking, professional practice and art education.

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  • The Complete Guide to Designing & Printing FabricThe Complete Guide to Designing & Printing Fabric
    A & C Black

    The Complete Guide to Designing & Printing Fabric

    The Complete Guide to Designing and Printing Fabric is a comprehensive handbook covering everything there is to know about designing and printing fabric. The book is full of advice from established fabric designers with clear, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials. The reader is taken...
    £12.50
    £18.99
    £12.50
  • Really Cross Stitch: For when you just want to stab something a lot Really Cross Stitch: For when you just want to stab something a lot 
    Herbert Press

    Really Cross Stitch: For when you just want to stab something a lot 

    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 the world, Really Cross Stitch takes all that anger, outrage and protest and puts it inside a pretty, decorative border....
    £7.00
    £10.99
    £7.00
  • Fashion Sewing: Introductory TechniquesFashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques
    Fairchild Books

    Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques

    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 design students who want to improve their sewing skills.The book includes advice on setting up the home sewing...
    £13.50
    £26.99
    £13.50
  • Marbling: Projects, Design Ideas and Techniques for a More Colourful LifeMarbling: Projects, Design Ideas and Techniques for a More Colourful Life
    Quadrille Publishing

    Marbling: Projects, Design Ideas and Techniques for a More Colourful Life

    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 method. Underpinning the projects is an understanding of colour, and it's combinations through some clearly explained colour theory....
    £8.50
    £15.00
    £8.50
  • Patternmaking for Dress Design: 9 Iconic Styles from Empire to Cheongsam Patternmaking for Dress Design: 9 Iconic Styles from Empire to Cheongsam 
    Bloomsbury

    Patternmaking for Dress Design: 9 Iconic Styles from Empire to Cheongsam 

    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 create your own take on these classic silhouettes. Each project includes illustrated step-by-step instructions to guide you through drafting...
    £20.00
    £34.99
    £20.00
  • From Image to StitchFrom Image to Stitch
    Batsford

    From Image to Stitch

    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 textile art. The author takes you through a variety of techniques for creating the image, such...
    £7.00
    £18.99
    £7.00
  • Shibori Knits: The Art of Exquisite Felted KnitsShibori Knits: The Art of Exquisite Felted Knits
    Potter Craft

    Shibori Knits: The Art of Exquisite Felted Knits

    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 dynamic ways to add shibori to knitting. The first method uses physical resists (marbles or corks) that...
    £12.00
    £19.99
    £12.00
  • Creative Quilts: Design techniques for textile artistsCreative Quilts: Design techniques for textile artists
    Batsford

    Creative Quilts: Design techniques for textile artists

    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, she shows you how to take inspiration from a wealth of sources, including art, textiles and architecture,...
    £7.00
    £14.99
    £7.00
  • Experimental Corsets: Inspiration and techniques for wearable and sculptural garmentsExperimental Corsets: Inspiration and techniques for wearable and sculptural garments
    Batsford

    Experimental Corsets: Inspiration and techniques for wearable and sculptural garments

    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 unusual materials such as lace, metal, paper and found fibres to up-cycling or repurposing existing garments to make...
    £10.00
    £22.50
    £10.00
  • Interpreting Themes in Textile ArtInterpreting Themes in Textile Art
    Batsford

    Interpreting Themes in Textile Art

    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 Art Quill Studio. The trend for collaborative textile art is increasing in popularity. This fascinating guide provides a rich seam of...
    £12.00
    £22.95
    £12.00
  • Creative Recycling in EmbroideryCreative Recycling in Embroidery
    Batsford

    Creative Recycling in Embroidery

    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 for economy. Showcasing work from leading contemporary embroiderers and covering both hand and machine embroidery, this book...
    £7.50
    £14.99
    £7.50
  • Instinctive Quilt Art: Using improvisational techniques to create vibrant art quiltsInstinctive Quilt Art: Using improvisational techniques to create vibrant art quilts
    Batsford

    Instinctive Quilt Art: Using improvisational techniques to create vibrant art quilts

    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, then adds stitching later. Each quilt is cut freehand, without the use of rulers or templates. In this...
    £10.00
    £19.99
    £10.00
  • The Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and TechniquesThe Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques
    Chronicle Books

    The Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques

    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 glazing techniques, generously accompanied by detailed photographs. The book includes beautiful examples of contemporary work, plus plenty of...
    £18.00
    £30.00
    £18.00
  • It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups from the World's Greatest Street ArtistsIt's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups from the World's Greatest Street Artists
    Laurence King

    It's a Stick-Up: 20 Real Wheat Paste-Ups from the World's Greatest Street Artists

    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 but use pre-prepared paper images that can be taken down, thereby avoiding a vandalism charge.The book...
    £15.00
    £19.95
    £15.00
  • City Sketching ReimaginedCity Sketching Reimagined
    Batsford

    City Sketching Reimagined

    Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere. Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers. With easily digested bite-size...
    £10.00
    £16.99
    £10.00
  • Exploring Dimension in Quilt ArtExploring Dimension in Quilt Art
    Batsford

    Exploring Dimension in Quilt Art

    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, shrinking and layering techniques. This fascinating book is a guide to creating these stunning effects, from the simplest...
    £12.50
    £19.99
    £12.50
  • Exploding Fashion: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Twentieth Century FashionExploding Fashion: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Twentieth Century Fashion
    Lannoo

    Exploding Fashion: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Twentieth Century Fashion

    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. With over 200 illustrations, it ‘explodes’ designs by 6 game-changing fashion designers from the world’s leading fashion...
    £20.00
    £45.00
    £20.00
  • Resist!: How to Be an Activist in the Age of DefianceResist!: How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance
    Laurence King

    Resist!: How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance

    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 who have already successfully stood up and made a difference. Learn the principles of direct action, discover strategies for tackling...
    £10.00
    £14.99
    £10.00
  • Sketching: The BasicsSketching: The Basics
    BIS Publishers

    Sketching: The Basics

    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 an object or idea is not a rigid process but a lively interactive process. Revealing the steps in that process, the...
    £17.50
    £25.00
    £17.50
  • Design Basics: From Ideas to ProductsDesign Basics: From Ideas to Products
    Niggli

    Design Basics: From Ideas to Products

    Design Basics offers a professional yet compact introduction to industrial design, written by specialists in the field with years of experience as product designers and design educators at various universities. The book is aimed at enquiring users as well as committed entrepreneurs, interested technicians...
    £15.00
    £29.95
    £15.00