Rural crafts

Learn to hook with easy step-by-step photos!

Finally, an easy explanation of Crackle Weave!

Finally, an easy explanation of Crackle Weave!

Adorn your life with crochet stars!

Adorn your life with crochet stars!

The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur.

The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur.

Learn to use traditional fabric techniques in modern waysFiber artists are experimenting with and combining techniques like never before, and this book gives detailed instructions on the rediscovered techniques of folding, shirring, gathering, bundling, quilling, and more.

Learn to use traditional fabric techniques in modern waysFiber artists are experimenting with and combining techniques like never before, and this book gives detailed instructions on the rediscovered techniques of folding, shirring, gathering, bundling, quilling, and more.

Nudinits is back with a guide to getting it all out in the open.

Stickmaking is an age-old craft that is just as absorbing and rewarding today as ever.

Now available in paperback, this best-selling title is THE essential guide to crochet.

Unlock the timeless art of spinning with Listen to the Wool, a guide that invites you into a world where wool transforms into more than just yarnit's a journey of connection, creativity, and mindful craftsmanship.

Unlock the timeless art of spinning with Listen to the Wool, a guide that invites you into a world where wool transforms into more than just yarnit's a journey of connection, creativity, and mindful craftsmanship.

Simply beautiful plant hangers you can make yourself!

Simply beautiful plant hangers you can make yourself!

Diana Yates shares her guide to creating a flower and veg garden from scratch, and how it turned out to be larder, source of home decoration and a place of restoration and healing, too.

Have fun at the farm with this new collection of minis from Kerry Lord and her Edward's Menagerie animals.

The Best in Show series is an outstanding success.

'Fun, festive and fabulous.

Find happiness in the natural world, be fully present where you are and free yourself from the expectations of others.

Master the art of carving animals using just a handful of tools, sandpaper, and paint!

There's nothing like the smell of a nice body spray.

How to rest, reconnect and rejuvenate through practical lessons, creativity and conscious living.

WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD 2025 FOR NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024'Robinson's prose is humorous and macho, taking its lead from the gruff, sensual delivery of food writer Anthony Bourdain' FINANCIAL TIMES A debut that s both a paean to the art of woodworking and a memoir about creative endeavours OBSERVER'Mesmeric' SPECTATOR'Robinson's chiselled, elegant prose is the sound of a bright new voice in non-fiction.

Master the art of carving expressive people--with just one knife!

Discover simple patterns for huggable dolls, loveable animals and nursery favourites.

Boasting countless benefits and applications, hand made felt is a chunky,durable and non-fraying fabric that can be used for fashion and home projects.

A month-by-month celebration of the best of Countryfile as well as an illustrated overview of the beauty and the drama of a year in the countryside.

Award-winning quilt maker Elsie Campbell loves to take homemade fabric yardage and turn it into stunning, pieced string quilts, whose leftover yardage can then spawn appliqud sister quilts.

There's nothing like culling hand-carved magic from a beautiful piece of wood, thanks to Alec LaCasse's Carving Faces from Wood!

The Gentle Art of Quilt-Making is a charming, inspirational and practical collection of 15 quilts for would-be quilters by leading author Jane Brocket.

Whittling is more than just a way of busying idle hands it is a pastime for those who love the texture of wood and a way of life for those who feel a special connection between people and trees.