Library
Books worth owning, with a note on who each one is for.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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