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Stitches, Straps & Layers
by Maggie Grey
ISBN: 978-0-9555371-3-4
Published by d4daisy books (softback)
COMING SOON - check d4daisy books
In these difficult times, we all need to be more aware of the resources to be found within our cupboards, stashes and workrooms. This book looks at exciting ways of using this treasure trove by building from the bottom up. Backgrounds and layers provide a base for stitch and make the sometimes difficult job of designing textiles much easier.
Maggie says: 'This book has been a delight. I set myself a challenge to use what I had or what I could find at no cost. In the process, I discovered the joys of making and using straps. Initially, these were borders but they grew into vessels, book-covers and many other finished pieces - a whole new way of working.'
£19.00 plus £2.00 p&p per book in the UK. If outside Great Britain, add a further £4.00 per book airmail. Order online from d4daisy books through their secure site.
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Stitching the Textured Surface
by Lynda Monk & Carol McFee
ISBN: 978-0-9555371-4-1
Published by d4daisy books (softback)
COMING SOON - check d4daisy books
Mixed media is such a popular concept and these two authors are masters of their craft. Amazing surfaces are constructed with gesso and molding paste. However, what makes this book unique are the ideas and techniques for colouring and stitching these surfaces.
Lynda and Carol have produced new ideas for working in mixed media. Their surfaces are layered, often distressed, always intriguing and forming a complex textile which belies the simplicity of its construction. They also make full use of materials such as Lutradur and Tyvek with some new and exciting ideas.
Best of all, you don't need to be an artist as fantastic surfaces grow from stencils and stamps. Whether you are a paper-crafter, book-maker, textile artist or quilter, your work will never be the same.
£17.00 plus £2.00 p&p per book in the UK. If outside Great Britain, add a further £4.00 per book airmail. When available, order online from d4daisy books through their secure site.
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ARIO
abaca tissue coloured with inks and stencilled with fabric paints
We stock a good selection of tried and trusted products for the textile artist and craft person.
Stewart Gill paints etc, Jacquard dyes and paints,
Transfer dyes and crayons, Brusho, Tyvek, Fibrefilm,
Markal paintstiks, acrylic wax, gels, Pink Pig sketchbooks,
Lazertran, Bubblejet Set, fabrics, dissolvables,
chiffon scarves, Wiremesh, beads & sequins, and lots more.
Lutradur now available
Send 4 x 1st class stamps for a catalogue
Ario (WOW)
5, Pengry Road
Loughor
Swansea
SA4 6PH, UK
Tel 01792 529092 (Karen) or 01792 429849 (Fiona)
e-mail
Visit our web site www.ario.co.uk for secure online shopping, samples, hints & tips, show information, and lots more.
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Textile Translations: Mixed Media
ISBN: 978-0-9555371-1-0
by Maggie Grey
Published by d4daisy books (softback)
NOW AVAILABLE
Everyone loves making sketchbooks and they are even more useful when they provide inspiration and ideas for a series of stitched textiles. This book shows you how to work from design source to finished piece, exploring a variety of mixed media techniques on the journey. This 80-page book first provides step-by-step instructions through a basic technique. These are followed by exciting ideas for extending the technique, from backgrounds built-up with gesso and paper to finished pieces using kozo fibres and embossing powder. Learn about heat techniques with felt and gesso, and make painted borders using grungeboard. Just a few of the ideas from the book.
HOT NEWS: Free online classes with this book. Everyone has asked Maggie to teach online workshops and she is going to do just that, based on extending the book ideas even further. The classes started in November and, to enter them, you will need to have a copy of the book handy. Sounds like a lot of fun.
£17.00 plus £2.00 p&p per book in the UK. If outside Great Britain, add a further £4.00 per book airmail. Order online from d4daisy books through their secure site.
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Exploring Colour with Julia Caprara
ISBN: 978-0-9555371-2-7
by Julia Caprara
Published by d4daisy books (softback)
NOW AVAILABLE
Julia Caprara is a towering figure in the world of textiles. Founder of Opus, the only distance learning site which provides a degree course, Julia is recognised as a master of colour. This richly illustrated book is not only visually beautiful and inspirational, but also provides the reader with new ways of learning and studying the art of colour. Textile artist, Julia Caprara, introduces her own unique approach to colour and stitch and invites the reader to share some of the highlights of her own studies on the path of colour.
Each chapter focuses on a key practical element, introducing the reader stage by stage to the language of colour, providing guidance for working with both mixed media and stitch methods. Practical advice is offered on experimental approaches to painting with stitches and ways for composing and resolving a finished item for exhibition. Each chapter includes an innovative feature, The Colour School, which is structured as a series of practical assignments, each designed to offer the reader ways of developing their own personal voice and expressive skills.
Assignments include projects focused on sketchbook practice and story boards, guidance on how to develop a personal colour language, ways of learning to 'paint' with stitches, together with ideas for developing an experimental approach to colour and stitch. Also covered are ideas for working on location and resolving a final textile project. All these offer textile enthusiasts ways to make colour their own and to build on their personal creativity.
£17.00 plus £2.00 p&p per book in the UK. If outside Great Britain, add a further £4.00 per book airmail. When available, order online from d4daisy books through their secure site.
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Natural & Hand Dyed Threads
Wool, Silk & Plant Fibres
Hand Dyed Fabrics
Inspiration & Experimental Packs
Paints, Dyes & Inks
Sketchbooks
Handmade Paper
Needle Packs
Rubber Stamps
Vintage Threads, Buttons, Lace, Fabric & Needle Packets
Ideal for Felting, Silk Papermaking, Embroidery, Mixed Media, Embellishing, Spinning and much more.
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Embellish and Stitch
ISBN: 978-0-9555371-0-3
by Valerie Campbell-Harding & Maggie Grey
Published by Maggie Grey & Michael Wicks (softback)
This book begins with the use of embellishing machines and hand needles with tips and tricks for both. It continues through chapters on appliqué, felting, couching, tucks, gathers and weaves, and concludes with a brief look at how to carry a design through to completion. Val and I did our best to make sure that the book was innovative and informative, and the pics by Michael Wicks are just great.
£14.00 plus £2.00 p&p per book in the UK. If outside Great Britain, add a further £4.00 per book airmail. Order online from d4daisy books through their secure site.
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Visit our website to see our online shop!www.craft-box.com
Stewart Gill, fibrefilm, tyvek, softsculpt, xpandaprint, shrink plastic, pearl-ex, brusho, procion and acid dyes, fabrics, threads, Jones Tones, dissolving fabrics and paper, bondaweb, craft vilene, transfer paints, kunin felt, Treasure Gold, foiling, embossing foils, meshes, Winsor & Newton, Pebeo, DMC, Madeira, Sulky, webbing spray, acrylic wax, books and more...
send a s a e for a mail order catalogue from
Painters Art & Craft Shop, 7 Fore Street, Liskeard, Cornwall,
PL14 3JA, UK, tel 01579 347237
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From Image to Stitch
ISBN: 978-1-90638-802-7
by Maggie Grey
Published by B T Batsford (hardback)
Maggie demonstrates 'no fuss' ways to use your inkjet printer to produce textile art. From ordinary printer paper to t-shirt transfer paper, she describes methods for enhancing the print and, most important, for stitching it.
£18.99. Post free in the UK. If outside Great Britain, add £7.00 per book airmail.
From Maggie & Clive Grey, 7 Heath Farm Way, Ferndown, Dorset,
BH22 8JR, UK.
Or from Maggie's Personal Web Site
where you can now order on line through our secure site.
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Machine Embroidery Frames Direct
Manufacturers and distributors of machine embroidery and silk painting frames which go under all makes of sewing machine
and take water soluble fabric.
Start in the corners first, then middles,
then work out to edges until resembles the picture for closeness of pins until drum tight.
Also suppliers of Marathon 1000 metre Cops of machine embroidery thread from £2.75. Plain, Multi, Metallic. In over 350 colours. Colour chart can be sent on a deposit of £10.
Send for price list and sizes to Machine Embroidery Frames Direct, 157 Lambourn Drive Allestree, Derby, Derbyshire DE22 2US, tel. 01332 552592, email .
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Stitch Dissolve Distort
(ISBN 0-7134-8996-0)
by Valerie Campbell-Harding & Maggie Grey
Published by B T Batsford (hardback)
This is Val's and Maggie's latest book. In three sections covering some exciting new ideas for stitch, innovations for dissolvable media and some fun distortions. Melting techniques with heat tool and embossing powder offer further variations. 'Beautifully produced - one of our best yet' say Val and Maggie.
Although the cover price is £18.99, we'll be offering it to WoWies at the special price of £16.99. If in the UK, add postage of £3.50 per book. If outside Great Britain, add a further £3.00 per book airmail.
From Maggie & Clive Grey, 7 Heath Farm Way, Ferndown, Dorset,
BH22 8JR, UK.
Or from Maggie's Personal Web Site
where you can now order on line through our secure site.
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GILLIAN WRIGHT
(at ISIS Designs)
For FABRICS, THREADS & BEADS
Our Aims have been - and always will be -
to provide LOTS of VARIETY (and something a bit different)
in LOTS of COLOUR COMBINATIONS
(not everyone wants to or is able to dye their own materials)
in SMALL QUANTITIES (because often all you needs is a few inches)
at LOW COST (lots of SPECIAL OFFER & OUR PRICE bargains)
PLUS
we've LOTS of trial sizes and taster packs to whet the appetite.
Send four first-class stamps to receive our 50-page brochure
packed full of information (UK only).
Gillian Wright
PO Box 268
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA6 6YJ
England
Tel. 07831 733652
Email isisdesigns@tiscali.co.uk
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Paper, Metal & Stitch
(ISBN 0-7134-8918-9)
by Maggie Grey & Jane Wild
Published by B T Batsford (hardback)
£20.49 including postage in UK.
(If outside Great Britain, add £3.00 per book airmail) from
Maggie & Clive Grey, 7 Heath Farm Way, Ferndown, Dorset,
BH22 8JR, UK.
Or from Maggie's Personal Web Site
where you can now order on line through our secure site.
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Mulberry Silks lives happily in the Cotswolds
where Patricia Wood creates packs of coloured
pure silk threads. Each pack is individually
named and the names are a reflection of the
range of tones and colours in each pack.
The packs available are:
Mini Topics - 7 spools Medium (30/3) thickness
Silk Topics - 12 spools Medium or Fine (100/3)
Connoisseur - 19 spools of mixed thicknesses
Palettes - 39 spools of Medium or Fine
All colours are repeatable
For more, visit: www.mulberrysilks-patriciawood.com
Patricia Wood, Mulberry Silks (WOW), Silkwood, 4 Park Close, Tetbury, Glos, GL8 8HS, UK, tel. 01666 503438, fax 01666 503439,
email
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Raising the Surface
With Machine Embroidery
(ISBN 0-7134-8851-4)
by Maggie Grey
Published by B T Batsford (hardback)
£20.49 including postage in UK.
(If outside Great Britain, add £3.00 per book airmail) from
Maggie & Clive Grey, 7 Heath Farm Way, Ferndown, Dorset,
BH22 8JR, UK.
Or from Maggie's Personal Web Site
where you can now order on line through our secure site.
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DISCOVER AND BE STIMULATED
by the series of colourful books and DVDs from
Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn.
They inspire designs and provoke creativity with fabrics and threads in a range of techniques.
The latest productions are:
Location, Location (book No.21) shows locations to stimulate you, materials and tools to excite you, and interpretations to inspire you.
Seeing Double (book No.22) answers the questions of 'how do you get started' and 'where do you get your ideas from', encouraging the reader to take their own personal paths.
Seeing Double DVD (96 mins) shows them working from the same design sources but creating very different pieces of work. The viewer sees the design process, sketchbooks and the artists working with various media and techniques.
Still available are the other books, Vanishing Act (1), Voluptuous Velvet (2), Bonding and Beyond (3), Transfer to Transform (4), Gardens and More (5), Conversations with Constance (6), Trees as a Theme (7), Giving Pleasure (8), New Dimensions (9), A Tale of Two Stitches (11), A Sketch in Time (12), No Stone Unturned (13), Connections (14), Colour Explorations (15), Over the Line (16), Grids to Stitch (17), Seductive Surfaces (18), RED (19), Embellish and Enrich (20).
And their other DVDs titled 'Jan Beaney' working with soluble materials and 'Jean Littlejohn' creating with an embellishing machine.
In the UK, DVDs are priced at £20 each and the books at £7.50. There is a £1.00 p&p charge for one and 50p for each subsequent DVD or book.
They can be obtained by sending a cheque to: Double Trouble Enterprises (wotw), PO Box 348, Maidenhead, SL6 6XB, UK and allow 21 days delivery. For prices outside the UK, and more information and pictures, please visit our website at:
www.doubletrouble-ent.com.
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Cover of 'Location, Location' (Book 21) (left) and
'Seeing Double-Personal Themes' (Book 22) (above).
Page 21 from 'Location, Location' (above) and
Page 15 from 'Seeing Double-Personal Themes' (below)
and the new DVD (below)
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Twidales Textile Workshops
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME - 2009
at the Jinney Ring Craft Centre, Hanbury,
Nr. Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England
2 day textile workshops featuring:
Jan Beaney
Hilary Bower
Bobby Britnell
Alison Holt
Ruth Issett
Jean Littlejohn
Lis Mann
Karina Thompson
See full details in the Courses section
01905 776735
www.twidales.co.uk
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Our unique individually hand-dyed yarns, threads and fabrics in luxury Silks, Cottons and Wools are available in an exciting array of colours and textures for all creative textile artists.
Exclusive hand-knitting designer patterns complement our range of yarns.
Website: www.21stcenturyyarns.com
Mail order
21st Century Yarns (WOW), Unit 18, Langston Priory Workshops, Kingham, Oxon, OX7 6UP, UK,
tel 07850 616537, email
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RAINBOW DISKS - Books on CD
New titles by top name authors
Books in PDF, readable by PC or Mac
- all you need is Adobe Reader (free)
High security online ordering via HSBC
Zoom in to see details of stitching greatly enlarged
Print pages for easy reference
Price per title: £10.99
Free worldwide postage to readers of Workshop on the Web.
Just quote promotional code RD66WQ when ordering.
 Scrap Quilt Projects
by Katharine Guerrier |
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 Glitzy Quilts: add sparkle to your stitching
by Annette Morgan |
 Celebrate Celtic:
Patterns and Ideas for Baskets, Hearts and Stars
by Angela Madden |
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 Appliqué Angels and Hearts with
Xmas Projects
by Madeleine Millington |
'. . .beautifully presented and very easy to use . . .' - The Quilter
Rainbow Disks
Tel: 01626 777226 or 01392 250240
www.rainbowdisks.com
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'DISTANT STITCH'
A Correspondence Course in Embroidery with
responsive tutorial support
A new 'green' initiative - students can now study the Courses entirely online by downloading their Modules from the website and showing their work
via a personal 'blog'.
City and Guilds Level 3 Certificate and Diploma in
Embroidery and Design
Distant Stitch is a correspondence course that allows students to work at home at their own pace, and with responsive tutorial support.
The Course covers the City and Guilds Stitched Textiles Certificate and Diploma, Level 3. Both Courses have been written and are tutored by Siân Martin.
See more details about the Courses and Siân Martin on www.distantstitch.co.uk
Also, new for 2009, the Distant Stitch website will offer a range of Online
Workshops with Siân Martin and invited tutors. Keep a look out for the first
freebie downloads.
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