Bibliography
What’s on my bookshelf? Here are a few of the titles, in no particular order.
- New Age Looping by Donna Kallner (yep, that’s a plug for my book, which is for sale on Etsy).
- Needle Lace: Techniques and Inspirations by Jill Nordfors Clark
- Eco-Colour by India Flint.
- Second Skin: Choosing and Caring For Textiles and Clothing by India Flint
- Craft of the Dyer by Karen Leigh Casselman
- A Heritage of Colour: Natural Dyes Past And Present by Jenny Dean
- Wild Color: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Natural Dyes by Jenny Dean
- A Weaver’s Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers by Rita Buchanan
- The Surface Designer’s Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric by Holly Brackman
- Complex Cloth by Jane Dunnewold
- Art Quilt Workbook by Jane Davila and Elin Waterston
- From Image To Stitch by Maggie Grey
- Inspired To Stitch: Creative Experiments In Art Quilt Imagery by Melanie Testa
- Imagery on Fabric by Jean Ray Laury
- The Textile Design Book: Understanding and creating patterns using texture, shape, and color by Karin Jerstorp & Eva Kohlmark
- The Quilter’s Book Of Design by Ann Johnston
- Celebrate Your Creative Self: more than 25 exercises to unleash the artist within by Mary Todd Beam
- The Embroiderer’s Workbook; a basic embroidery course, designed to help embroiderers structure their approach to the craft by Jan Messent
- A Complete Guide to Creative Embroidery: Designs, Textures, Stitches by Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn. Read anything you can get your hands on from this pair.
- Bead Embroidery: The Complete Guide by Jane Davis
- Embeadery by Margaret Ball
- Beading on Fabric by Larkin Jean Van Horn
- The Beader’s Guide To Color by Margie Deeb
- The Folkwear Book of Ethnic Clothing by Mary Parker
- Beaded Embellishment: Techniques & Designs for Embroidering on Cloth by Amy C. Clarke & Robin Atkins
- The Complete Encyclopedia of Needlework by Therese de Dillmont
- Adventures In Stitches by Mariska Karasz. Thank you, Carlene Fullerton, for sharing this one.
- Inspiration for Embroidery by Constance Howard.
- Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- The Mummies of Urumchi by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
- Quilts In A Material World by Linda Eaton
- Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity by Jane Davila & Elin Waterston
- The Knitting Experience Book 3: Color by Sally Melville
- Knitting Without Tears by Elizabeth Zimmermann
- No Idle Hands: A Social History of Knitting In America by Anne Macdonald
- Colorworks: the crafter’s guide to color by Deb Menz
- Design Language by Tim McCreight