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28 |  | FIBER & TEXTILES Hooked Rugs Today: Holidays, Geometrics, People, Animals, Landscapes, Accessories, and More—2006. Amy Oxford, photography by Cynthia McAdoo. More than 475 hooked rugs created by talented members of Vermont’s Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild. Included are rugs depicting people, landscapes, fruit, cabbage roses, flower baskets, holidays, geometric designs, and animals • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 502 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2636-3 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD Punch Needle Extravaganza!: 27 Projects to Create. Laetitia Dalbies. Skill level marked & pattern included for every project. Punch needle crafters, whether new or already firmly in love with this tech- nique, will rejoice at this group of 27 inspired projects to enrich home, wardrobe, artistic gift-giving needs, and overall crafting joy. Laetitia Dalbies's stylish designs have brought her a devoted fan base who love how she excites crafters' creative style. • 7 1/2" x 9" (190 x 228 mm) • 152 color images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-6258-3 • softcover • $22.99 US / £20.99 / 31.99 CAD Modern Hooked Rugs. Linda Rae Coughlin. Fea- tures stunning images of 540 rugs created by 292 of today’s contemporary rug hooking artists. Enjoy rugs depicting American icons, animal designs, circus themes, self portraits, family celebrations, and more. Showcases some of today’s most noted artists, along with artists making their debut. An inspiring and beautiful book for all levels of fiber artists • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 540 color photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-2631-8 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / 42.95 CAD Punch Needle Rug Hooking: Your Complete Resource to Learn & Love the Craft. Amy Oxford. Standing apart from the many projects-only books, this comprehensive guide by the world expert, Amy Oxford, offers beginners and advanced crafters alike her amazingly effective instruction. This is the guide you’ll keep at your fingertips while you learn, and throughout your punch needle adventures for years to come. • 8 1/2" x 9 7/8" (215 x 250 mm) • 450 color & b/w images, patterns, and diagrams • 208 pp. • 978-0-7643-6015-2 • HC • $27.99 / £25.99 / 38.99 CAD Punch Needle: 15 Contemporary Projects Rachel Lawson & Siobhan Watt. With its meditative rhythm, punch needle is a craft that is both simple to master and calming to do. This book offers a stylish collection of modern punch needle projects that will guide you through the basic principles of punch needle and help you create your own beauti- ful items. • 8 1/2" x 10" (219 x 254 mm) • 200+ color photos and illustrations • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-6319-1 • softcover • $26.99 US / £24.99 / 37.99 CAD Rug Hooking with Wool Strips: 20 Contempo- rary Projects for the Modern Rug Hooker. Katie Kriner. A fresh direction for the millions of fans. Learn how to make 20 modern-vibe projects using the technique of pulling wool strips. Related to yarn-based punch needle rug hooking, this process has similar traditional roots, but wool strips provide a different form of expression and a unique look. • 8 1/2" x 10" (216 x 254 mm) • 180 color photos • 128 pp.•978-0-7643-6209-5•softcover•$26.99US /£24.99 / 37.99 CAD Rags to Rugs: Hooked & Handsewn Rugs of Pennsylvania. Patricia T. Herr. Frugal sewers saved and shared their textile scraps to create useful, pretty rugs, especially in the late 19th to early 20th centuries in southeast Pennsylvania. This book shows steps and techniques to design, make, sell, and use hooked rugs. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 173 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3125-1 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Rug Hooking In Maine: 1838-1940. Mildred Cole Peladeau. Maine’s rug hooking tradition, including Waldoboro rugs, is explored, the myth of Acadian rugs is explained, and Edward Sands Frost’s well- known preprinted burlap rug patterns of the mid-19th century are discussed at length. Covers rugs created throughout Maine and eastern Canada. This book highlights this homegrown and much loved art form • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 267 images • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-2882-4•HC•$40.00 / £36.99 / 56.95CAD 50 Pouches: Putting Your Fabric Scraps to Good Use. Edited by Graphic-sha. Functional, cre- ative, and sometimes just plain cute, these 50 small projects appeal in a huge way to all levels. Over 200 photographs and 200 clear diagrams and patterns guide craft lovers in using and enjoying their fabric scraps to make wallets, first-aid pouches, and bags for elegantly toting phones, snacks, and small treasures • 7 1/4" x 10 1/8" (184 x 257mm) • 200 color photos & 200 b/w diagrams & patterns • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643- 5809-8 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD STITCHING, NEEDLECRAFT & SEWING Arts and Crafts Embroidery. Laura Euler. Em- broidered textiles are the most personal art form practiced by the arts and crafts movement (c. 1860–1910). This is art from another time that has its own story to tell. Some are the humble workaday pieces for home use, while others are staggering works of art. Features photos of the work of famous designers, including William Morris and Gustav Stickley • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •305 color &83 b/w photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-4409-1 • HC • $49.99 / £45.99 / 72.00 CAD Fables & Fairy Tales to Cross Stitch: French Charm for Your Stitchwork. Véronique Engin- ger. Forty-four cross-stitch patterns offer you tra- ditional style that’s blended with a charming contemporary simplicity. Many of the designs include multiple motifs, offering you components to use in your own designs. Also includes 22 projects for showing off your stitchwork, like luggage tags, a mobile, a cookie tin, a quilt, and wall pockets • 8 1/2"x9" (215x228mm) •230color images&patterns • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-5478-6 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD TheMagic of Christmas to Cross Stitch: French Charm for Your Stitchwork. Véronique Enginger. Twenty cross-stitch patterns offer you the tradition- al style of France, blended with a charming con- temporary simplicity. Many of the designs include multiple scenes and motifs, offering you components to use in your own designs. Also includes projects for featuring your stitchwork, like a stocking or a gorgeous Advent calendar • 9"x11" (228x280mm) •103 color images •96pp. •978-0-7643-5461-8•HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Retro Cross Stitch: 500 Patterns, French Charm for Your Stitchwork. Véronique Engin- ger. These 500 unusual cross-stitch patterns blend the traditional style of France with a charming contemporary simplicity. Many of the designs include multiple motifs, offering you components to use in your own designs. Re-create 1800s and 1900s fashion house designs, trunk labels, travel posters, tea and coffee motifs, and daily life • 8 1/2" x 9" (228x228mm) •115 color images&patterns •192pp. • 978-0-7643-5479-3 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD The Herbarium of Fabric Flowers: Twenty Flower Brooch Projects Translated fromNature Utopiano. Learn to make beautiful fabric flower brooches so real you can almost smell them! • 71/4" x 101/8" (255 x 185mm) •300 color images •112 pp. • 978-0-7643-6421-1 • HC • $29.99 US / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Hooked Rugs Today IV: Expect the Unexpect- ed. Amy Oxford. Rae Harrell and Diane Kelly display their personal styles, along with other members of the Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild. Works range from lifesize, three-dimensional sheep to extraordinary miniature punch needle works, plus animals, florals, landscapes, penny rugs, and even a small section dedicated to the smallest members of the group: the children. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 400+ color photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-3283-8 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD The Hooker’s Art: Evolving Designs in Hooked Rugs. Jessie A. Turbayne. More than 300 color photos of old and modern hooked rugs, some from the nation’s most elegant homes, are presented with fascinating histories. Exploring the craft’s background, Jessie Turbayne weaves together its technical details, the materials used through the years, biographies of great “hookers,” and photos of many striking pieces. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 465 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-88740- 459-7 • HC • $49.95 / £45.99 / 72.00 CAD The Cumulative Cloth, Wet Techniques: A Guide to Fabric Color, Pattern, Construction, and Embellishment. Susan Brandeis. Handy and comprehensive for all surface designers of textiles, from the novice to the studio practitioner. Including projects, this reference teaches how to create rich and personally expressive fabric surfaces through the application and layering of textile dyes and pigments in wet techniques. • 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279mm) •425 color images and diagrams •304pp. • 978-0-7643-6690-1 • hardcover • $59.99 US / £54.99 / 85.00 CAD Counted Sashiko Embroidery. Keiko Sakamoto. Here's a complete introduction to stitching two lit- tle-known traditional styles: kogin and hishizashi. Japanese expert Keiko Sakamoto explains these in- triguing decorative reinforcement stitching styles and their origins in the harsh climate of northern Japan. Next, dive into 31 step-by-step projects that range in difficulty levels to delight both novices and veteran sashiko stitchers. • 8 1/2" x 10" (216 x 254mm) •500 color photos and b/w patterns • 180 pp. • 978-0-7643- 6673-4 • softcover • $29.99 US / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Embroidery Garden. Yanase Rei. Capture the wide variety of flowers and greenery in your garden by stitching these embroidered botanical designs. Some bright, some dark, some richly complex like brocade, some simple and joyful—all the moods of the garden are offered to you here. The rich, multilayered designs from well-known needlework artist yanase rei are at last available beyond her native Japan. • 7 1/2" x 10" (191x254mm) •150+color andblack-and-whitephotos and diagrams • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-6424-2 • softcov- er • $25.99 US / £23.99 / 36.99 CAD Intermediate & Advanced Punch Needle Rug Hooking: Techniques, Projects, and Inspira- tions. Amy Oxford with Louise Kulp. Enjoy expert instruction and ideas on how punch needle lovers can reach the next level of skill and enjoyment with their craft. Amy Oxford provides instructions, proj- ects, and artistic inspiration to help punch needle lovers expand their artistry. • 8 1/2" x 9 7/8" (215 x 250 mm) • 350 color images • 240 pp. • 978-0-7643- 6757-1 • HC • $39.99 US / £36.99 / 56.99 CAD The Cumulative Cloth, Dry Techniques: A Guide to Fabric Color, Pattern, Construction, and Embellishment. Susan Brandeis. Learn surface design for textiles to create rich and per- sonally expressive fabric surfaces. This book, com- panion to the Wet Techniques book, is the complete how-to resource for adding color and pattern using dry surface design techniques like embroidery, appliqué, layering, building, and em- bellishing. Includes 45 projects. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 560 color images and diagrams • 344 pp. •978-0-7643-6722- 9 • HC • $59.99 US / £54.99 / 85.00 CAD