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The Complete A-Z of Embroidery Stitches
Inspirations Studios
A hand-embroidery reference for finding and comparing stitch techniques.
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Books worth owning, with a note on who each one is for.
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Raffia Embroidery
Tihara Smith
Explore raffia as a decorative hand-embroidery material with a distinctive surface character.
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The Textile Artist: Sculptural Textile Art
Priscilla Edwards
Explore textile art that moves beyond a flat surface into sculptural form.
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Chloe Giordano Needlepainted Woodland Animals
Chloe Giordano
A hand-embroidery reference focused on small woodland animals and needlepainted detail.
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The Textile Artist: Expressive Stitches
Jan Dowson
Explore expressive textile work where marks and surface texture help communicate an idea.
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RSN Stitch Bank: 200 Essential Embroidery Stitches
Royal School of Needlework
A hand-stitch reference for exploring a wider vocabulary of embroidered marks.
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The Royal School of Needlework Book of Embroidery
Various authors / Royal School of Needlework
A broad hand-embroidery reference for comparing techniques and planning further study.
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Needle Painting Embroidery
Trish Burr
A hand-embroidery reference for exploring needle painting and color transitions.
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Appliqué Art
Abigail Mill
Explore appliqué as a way to construct a picture from fabric, color and stitched detail.
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Machine Embroidered Art
Alison Holt
Study freehand machine embroidery through landscape, texture and the natural world.
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Freehand Machine Embroidery
Poppy Treffry
A creative reference for freehand machine stitching and sewn accessories.
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Free Motion Embroidery
Katie Essam
Explore free-motion machine work as a way to draw with thread and fabric.
BookBeginner
The Handmade Marketplace, 2nd Edition: How to Sell Your Crafts Locally, Globally, and Online
Kari Chapin
A fully revised guide to turning craft skills into income. Chapin covers branding your business, building a customer base, selling your work locally, globally and online…
BookBeginner
Selling on Amazon For Dummies
Deniz Olmez, Joseph Kraynak
An overview of building a business on Amazon: getting started in Seller Central, deciding what to sell, product research, sourcing, shipping and returns, fees, sales tax…
BookBeginner
Shopify For Dummies
Paul Waddy
Takes you from an empty Shopify account to a working store: products and collections, bulk image uploads, payments, currency options, shipping rules, email sign-ups, tag…
BookBeginner
Starting an Etsy Business For Dummies
Kate Shoup, Kate Gatski
A step-by-step guide to opening and running an Etsy shop, updated in this fourth edition for recent changes to the site. It covers setting up the shop, photographing pro…
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Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2026 Release
Brian Wood
Adobe's official project-based workbook for Illustrator, updated for the 2026 release. Seventeen lessons move from selections, shapes, color and editing to gradients, la…
BookIntermediate
Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork
Von Glitschka
Teaches a disciplined way to build clean vector art: sketch first, analyze the shapes, then construct them with accurate curves and the right number of anchor points. It…
BookIntermediate
Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities
David Airey
A practical look at how logos and brand identities are made, from writing a brief and generating ideas to charging for the work and collaborating with clients. Airey use…
BookBeginner
Cricut For Dummies
Kerri Adamczyk
A beginner's guide to Cricut die-cutting machines: choosing a model for the materials you plan to cut, setting it up, and using the Design Space app and design library.…
BookBeginner
Do-It-Yourself Screenprinting: How to Turn Your Home Into a T-Shirt Factory
John Isaacson
The whole process of making and selling a screen-printed T-shirt, told as an illustrated graphic novel. It covers building a screen, burning an image, test prints, pulli…
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Screenprinting: The Ultimate Studio Guide from Sketchbook to Squeegee
Print Club London
A fully illustrated studio manual on screen-printing techniques, materials and processes. Step-by-step tutorials cover basic and advanced methods, and workshop sections…
BookIntermediate
Embroidery Machine Essentials - Applique Adventures: Companion Project Series: Book 6
Mary Mulari
A short project book for machine appliqué that goes beyond the basic method. It shows how to work with altered fabrics, overlays, backgrounds and layering, across 13 pro…
BookBeginner
Tiny Stitches: Buttons, Badges, Patches, and Pins to Embroider
Irem Yazici
Small-scale hand embroidery for making your own patches, badges, pins and buttons. The book offers 50 motifs and 20 beginner-friendly projects with step-by-step instruct…
BookBeginner
Embroidery in 10 Lessons: Step-by-step instructions for first-time stitchers, plus 10 designs for denim, shoes, linens and more
Juliette Michelet
Ten short lessons for first-time hand stitchers. They cover transferring a motif so it sits exactly where you want it, starting and finishing neatly, the essential stitc…
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The Embroidery Stitch Bible: Over 200 Stitches Photographed with Easy-to-Follow Charts
Betty Barnden
A hand-embroidery stitch dictionary with more than 200 stitches, from basic chain stitch to Florentine canvas work. Each stitch gets step-by-step instructions, a diagram…
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Punch: Digitizing for Embroidery Design
Bonnie Nielsen
A digitizing book by a professional puncher with more than 25 years in the embroidery trade, written for people who create stitch files for industrial embroidery machine…
BookBeginner
The Complete Machine Embroidery Manual
Elizabeth Keegan
Aimed at sewing-machine owners who stitch ready-made embroidery designs. It explains the types and file formats of designs, how to get a downloaded design onto your mach…
BookBeginner
Modern Machine Embroidery: 11 Projects from Pickle Pie Designs with 25 Must-Have Embroidery Motifs
Lisa Archer
Written for people just getting started with an embroidery machine. Step-by-step instructions cover stabilizer, thread, fabric and hooping, then move on to appliqué, cus…
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Pocket Guide to Stabilizers: Carry-Along Reference Guide
Sue O'Very
A 56-page carry-along reference that does one job: helping you pick the right stabilizer. It explains the main types, including tear-away and cut-away, and matches them…
BookBeginner
Embroidery Machine Essentials: How to Stabilize, Hoop and Stitch Decorative Designs
Jeanine Twigg
Covers the whole home-machine embroidery process in one place: choosing designs, thread, stabilizer and needles, then hooping, placing the design and stitching it out. M…
BookBeginner
Machine Embroidery With Confidence: A Beginner's Guide
Nancy Zieman
A plain-spoken beginner's course in machine embroidery. It walks through the tools you need, setting up the work area, machine types, choosing designs, positioning with…