Hand-Painted Textiles: A Practical Guide to the Art of Painting on Fabric, authored by Sarah Campbell, published by Herbert Press

The title gives away the inside story - there is no cover story to confuse here. Campbell is an artist herself practicing within this field, she has become a brand and was working in tandem with her sister, until her sad early death. She is a professional, a key example of a designer who has made her artistic practice work as a sustainable career. She has written books before and with all her experience and back-knowledge in the field, a publication with matter is proffered.

Making and Drawing by Kyra Cane. Who is it for? I just love the mixed media multi faceted nature of this publication. As a mature student, I remember my old university lecturers bandying on about it. So yes, I went out and certainly purchased a copy.

From best-selling author and crafting queen Claire Gelder, this gorgeous mini guide is packed full of knitting know-how, practical illustrations and comes with four simple projects.

In The Art Of Repair, the introduction is her personal story, the rest is all connected back to her personal story. Within The Art Of Repair, you will sense and read about many mending techniques; Kantha, Boro, Darning…they are all explained with true sense. But it is the writing around the methods which holds the magic.

Create Naturally is a marriage between the natural word and the artists who work within them thematically. With fifteen artists showcased and a foreword by Kaffe Fassett, this book will inspire you to get outdoors before you begin your own creative pathway.

Creative Flow: 40 Prescriptions for Tapping Your Creative Impulses by Roberta Bergmann is published by Schiffer

It holds vital creative information under the subject of creativity and building up up our confidence.

3D Embroidery: A beginner’s guide to modern raised stitches by Ashley Denn, published by Search Press

This book has been well illustrated in a simplified format, with many hoops, which all feature the stitched required to create the projects or the projects themselves.

A Knitter’s Year, written by Ida Wrak Trettevik, published by Search Press

This book is not your branded normal knitters companion, nor is it a basic exploration into knitting in general. With its relaxed, I felt “hygge’’ vibe, its attractive to all, including those like myself who are not experienced knitters by any means, yet wish to still create something wearable and have that push, that temptation to really “do” hit not just look at it on the printed page and imagine its fruition.

Within the catalog, which is captured in full colour, you will discover the works of many artists, with a real message to bear. I felt that the exhibitions mixed sense of works each artist working in their own favoured materials refreshing. Not all of us can catch every exhibition, so that is where catalogs such as this one really come into their own.

Embroidered Crochet: Enchanting projects to crochet and embroider

Writen by Anna Nikipirowicz

Published by Search Press

We will have encountered Crochet in its many forms at some point; imagine your favourite granny, with her crochet blanket adorning her knee, however maybe you like I will be surprised to discover that there is a depth to this method…your Crochet creations do not have to stop at bland beautiful squares….why not decorate them with another textile art method: Embroidery?!

With a love of nature firmly within her heart, Alexandra Stratkotter writes The Embroidered Closet, marrying this thematic foundation with key embroidery projects and challenges.

Japandi: shared aesthetics and influences

browngrotta arts

What is Japandi? We live in the era of self-care, we are encouraged to live by nature, become grounded, rooted, calmer individuals….Japandi is a marriage, where Japanese and Scandinavian aesthetics, where beauty is found within the simple, the natural, the raw and unrefined. Weight shifts towards the use of sustainable materials, embracing their imperfect state rather than a vie for perfection.

Crowdsourcing the Collective: a survey of textiles and mixed media art

Published by browngrotta arts

This forty artist strong publication was released to go with a beautiful exhibition held by browngrotta arts. Within this book, you will discover information on each artist and selected imagery of their work.

On Mending

Stories of damage and repair

Celia Pym

Published by Hawthorn Press

What is mending to you and I? What can mending be? Become? Is there a greater narrative, one which centres on an integral human requirement, for the very survival of our souls and ongoing paths?

What has flora and fauna get to do with art? A Flower A Day by Miranda Janatka is not a textile art book, yet its very nature can it fact, embroider our ongoing under-bed of inspirational resources which we use to translate the narrative of our own personal artistic practice. Use this richly illustrated thick hardback to guide you through the months, the seasons, making you aware of the greater world around you.

Are you an embroidery newbie? This title , Sunny Stitches written by Celeste Johnston will help you to gain confidence as a stitcher. There are sixteen bright and beautiful projects, which are all artfully illustrated with plenty of guidance along the way. The artist has a large Instagram following, so many know her work already without reading this book.

A turn of a year can be the right time for the embarkment of a new method or the polishing up of one we may be a little rusty on. Within Needlepoint, the author Homent guides us through the many needlepoint stitches out there to learn. With this variety showcase, all set out with large diagrams and photographs, this technique is set to tempt the beginner as well as the further experienced stitcher.

The Wind In The Willows Felt Friends, written by Cynthia Treen, D&C 2022. This book will guide you through each characters creation, with the added highlight of teaching us how to add a posable element to our creations via interior wire armatures. Beginners are welcome, with all the basic sewing instructions supplied, as well as the more advanced methods.

In this tutorial based guide, discover Congdon’s interpretation of how to convey our love, to whoever the recipient may be….via a collection of graph based little x’s. Thematically fitting given the title of this publication! Whether your love is thrown out to a friend, other half or simply the crown of all humans out there…..this book can deliver a kiss in an x form to anyone you wish it for.

In Wellness For Makers, Ballone provides the starting points to begin a dual concentration on our body health in line with our making creatively. We can be our biggest ‘mend’ project and one which holds the largest portion of importance. Start your repair path today with Ballone and discern how her advice can be aligned to your own lifestyle.