Soulful Stitch

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Product details

  • ISBN 9781849949187
  • Weight: 363g
  • Dimensions: 216 x 276mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Batsford
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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A thoughtful, meditative guide to the ways creative textile art can soothe and comfort us during challenging times.

Renowned British textile artists Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, each well known for their richly textured, deeply evocative work in stitch, collaborate for the first time in this important and timely book. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of work from both artists along with other embroiderers and textile artists from around the world, Soulful Stitch documents a wide range of stitched responses to crisis, both personal and global. With invaluable advice on how to develop your own work in times of trouble, it explores:

• How the restrictions and trials of everyday life can inform your textile work, enabling you to develop imaginative new approaches.

• The healing power of stitch to soothe and console, with the simple act of putting needle into fabric providing a mindful route to inner calm.

• Practical ways to continue with your textile art practice in the face of seismic life changes, finding creative opportunity in difficult situations.

• How to use found objects, repurposed threads and personal items to create deep emotional resonance in your own work.

Both authors have recent lived experience of having to navigate new paths through big life challenges, making this book particularly heartfelt. It truly demonstrates how even in the toughest times, creativity in textile art can keep you afloat.

Cas Holmes is one of the UK’s most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College in West Sussex. She is the author of Textile Landscape, Stitch Stories, The Found Object in Textile Art, Embroidering the Everyday and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines and websites including Embroidery, The Quilter and TextileArtist and for the Festival of Quilts. She lives in Maidstone, Kent.

Deena Beverley is a textile artist, author of several craft books and a regular contributor to Embroidery magazine. Her award-winning work has been widely exhibited internationally and she also talked about embroidery on BBC Radio 4’s 'Woman’s Hour'. She is based in Wiltshire.