Needlework and fabric crafts

Presented in a quick and easy-to-understand format, this essential guide includes 30 favorite embroidery stitches to practice and inspire creativity!

Be inspired by 16 stunning quilt designs that capture what we love the most about each spectacular season!

There's a new craze sweeping the knitting world.

Knit one of these fabulous patterns and go party!

Learn to make stunning quilts that are works of art!

Quick, easy, and fun, the craft of hoop quilts combine simple quilting techniques with embroidery, patchwork, and other favorite fabric arts.

Discover a world of 100 English paper pieced star block patterns that fit inside a hexagon, from classic style to modern and quirky, with Hexagon Star Quilts!

Colorful Batik Panel Quilts shows how to make bold, graphic and joyous art quilt projects and home decor using batik panels created by Indonesian artisans.

It's the ultimate sourcebook for stitchwork practitioners!

Turn fat quarters into gorgeous quilts!

Contemporary Paper-Pieced Quilts introduces quiltmakers to foundation piecing with 8 sensational projects that range from a lovely wall hanging to an intricate bed quilt.

Learn to make beautiful quilts in only 5 minutes with this clever one-seam technique.

Ornaments don't have to be limited to Christmas time!

A detailed guide to dressmaking, being a handbook of pattern drafting and design.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

Darning cross stitch samplers vary in character and decorative elements, and this pattern is inspired by Jane Greenoff's own collection.

This antique text comprises a comprehensive guide to various styles of hats, their purposes, advantages, disadvantages, and construction methods contemporary with the time of this book's original publication.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

A complete guide to the art of shoe-mending, including a full course on how to do expert shoe repairing from beginning to end.

If you've ever wanted to have a piece of New York in your own home, this is the e-series for you.

This antique text contains a detailed and comprehensive guide to making hats for children and young people.

"e;Simple Embroidery"e; offers the reader a novice-friendly introduction to the art of embroidery, including chapters on the basic stitches, how to properly form borders, and creating simple patterns.

Boots & Shoes is a vintage catalogue published by boot and shoe manufacturing company C.

This handy book contains step-by-step information to making a range of lampshades from parchment and paper.

Whereas 'hatmaking' refers to the manufacturing of hats and headwear, 'millinery' refers to both the designing and making of hats.

Embroidery has always been a popular art in England, and records show that from Anglo-Saxon times the English were skilled in the craft.

This is the second part of "e;Simplified Systems of Sewing Styling"e;, a series that aims to outline the fundamental rules for making clothes in the simplest way possible.

This is a vintage handbook on practical cross-stitch, with diagrams and scale drawings taken from seventeenth-century samples and other sources.

This is a vintage handbook on practical canvas embroidery, with diagrams and scale drawings taken from seventeenth-century samples and other sources.

A series of illustrated lessons on shoe-repair, with a special focus on putting together a plain welted shoe by hand.

This book contains a lovely collection of embroidery patterns for the making of cushions.

Master embroidery stitches with this collection of 20 eye-catching motifs, patterns and projects, ideal for novices through to experienced embroiderers.

This is a vintage handbook on double-running or back-stitch, with diagrams and scale drawings taken from seventeenth-century samples and other sources.

This classic text offers insights into the different elements of the practice of millinery - the design, manufacture and sale of hats.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to making a variety of lace articles.

Meet Piers Penguin, Kit Koala, Leo Lion, Zoe Zebra, George Giraffe, Ellie Elephant, Roddy Rhino and Tabby Tiger in these first eight books in the 'Top of the Class' series.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

Drawn by family.

'Part how-to guide, part manifesto - a gentle exhortation that encourages us to reconnect with our damaged belongings and ourselves.

The classic 'Millinery Hat Making and Design' texts offer insights into the different elements of the practice of millinery - the design, manufacture and sale of hats.