Wild at the Edges: Inspiration from a Creative Life

By Virginia A. Spiegel, about her inspiration and influences, showing what's beautiful and significant in her creative life - "woven from the intertwined threads of writing, photography, adventuring, and making art". 25% of the profits are donated to the American Cancer Society through Fiberart For A Cause.

Elinor Kapp

Author of 'Rigmaroles & Ragamuffins', a collection of textile-related words and phrases

The HotHive Textiles Bookstore

books on all textile subjects

The Uncommon Quilter

provides quilters, stitchers, paper and mixed-media artists with 52 projects for creating their own unique quilts using everyday materials and found objects

Adobe Photoshop for Textile Design

Photoshop tutorials aimed at textile designers. Includes a CD. A sample chapter is available in PDF format.

Biblio.com

used and rare books from independent booksellers; worldwide but mostly in USA/Canada. Category includes quilting, embroidery and needle arts

The Textile Museum Shop Online

books about rugs, textiles, techniques, related art, and children's titles

Embroiderers' Guild Bookshop

huge range of embroidery and textile books

Textile Arts of India

features books on ethnic Indian embroidery, dresses, sarees, costumes, published in India

Hard-to-Find Needlework Books

in-print, out-of-print and rare books on all forms of the needlearts

Althea's Needles and Threads Online - Books

Most of the books in Althea's extensive catalogue are shown with full tables of contents and a couple of selected illustrations, a big help when browsing online. In Australia but ships overseas.

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