Textiles

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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,...

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,...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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 | 23.1 x 1.6 x 31.7 cm | 106 pp Damiani | 2011 | 9788862080767 Fifteen internationally renowned artists explore a medium foreign to their usual practice, experimenting within the lost world of wall-hanging tapestry. Three years in the making, the fourteen tapestries...

Hardcover | 17.4 x 1.45 x 24.92 cm | 112 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2017 | 9783897905139 With her unique artistic installations, Madame Tricot (real name Dominique Kaehler Schweizer) displaces the viewer into an illusory world of knitted delicacies. Her smokehouses, refrigerators, counters...

Softcover | 24.5 x 2.34 x 33.5 cm | 260 pp Arnoldsche Art Publishers | 2020 | 9783897906105 Text in English and Norwegian. This monograph presents the Norwegian artist Bente Sætrang (b. 1946) and her forty years of commitment to the medium of textile....

Rosalind Ormiston & N. M. Wells Hardcover | 27.94 x 2.79 x 28.89 cm | 192 pp Flame Tree | 2019 | 9781787553194 This beautifully illustrated book offers a survey of William Morris' life and work alongside some of his finest decorative work. Morris possessed a multi-faceted...

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....

Marnie Fogg Hardcover | 22.71 x 1.96 x 22.68 cm | 192 pp Batsford | 2021 | 9781849945875 The 1950s was the decade when an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and freshness, combined with whimsical imagery and idiosyncratic subject matter. Showcasing hundreds of...