Crafts & Textiles

The Fabric and Yarn Dyer's Handbook is for anyone who wants to create a unique textile or yarn to use in quilting, home furnishings, embroidery, knitting or crochet.

Well-known watercolour painter Ann Blockley presents flowers through a variety of interpretations, from traditional to unconventional in both technique and concept.

New in paperback, this practical guide shows the reader how to choose the right technique to interpret what they see. With skilful examples by the best-selling artist.

In The Essence of Watercolour Hazel shows how wonderfully versatile and beguiling the medium of watercolour is and how to get the most out of it.

The Gentle Art of Knitting aims to inspire readers to value and enjoy the basics of knitting – fibre, texture, pattern, colour, comfort.

In Adventurous Watercolours, her first book, Jenny discusses in detail the various aspects that contribute to her distinctive style of painting in watercolour.

A knitting book with a difference; the book parodies The X Factor in knitted form and celebrates the phenomenally successful 'K Factor – So You Think You Can Knit?' segment from Harry Hill's TV Burp. 

This is a practical guide to green woodwork and the coppice crafts, giving information on the tools and techniques for making traditional items, with emphasis on the conservation of the native woodland.