Author: Mary Webb
Publisher: Struik Publishers
Keywords: stitches, embroidery
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1770074228
ISBN-13: 9781770074224
Author: David Small
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: memoir, stitches
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0393068579
ISBN-13: 9780393068573
Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award and finalist for two 2010 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards: the prize-winning children’s author depicts a childhood from hell in this searing yet redemptive graphic memoir. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die. In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children’s illustrator and author, re-crea
Author: Ellen Kort
Publisher: Krause Publications
Keywords: stitches, history, quilts, wisconsin
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 2008-06-13
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0896895920
ISBN-13: 9780896895928
Storytelling is as old as humanity, and quilting is among the most prolific mediums. Wisconsin Quilts - Stories in the Stitches brings readers 100 antique quilts stitched by immigrants between the 1800s and the mid-20th century, through times of war, economic development and depression, with continued perseverance. You will learn about the history of the day, and gain information about 10 of the quilt blocks used to create each the various quilts featured.
Author: Helen Kelley
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Keywords: stitches, quilters, stories, threads, loose
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0760332037
ISBN-13: 9780760332030
One of the countrys best-loved quilters shares her observations on the whys, wherefores, and wonders of applying needle to fabric and creating a world. A collection of amusing, moving, and invariably wise essays from Helen Kelleys beloved "Loose Threads" column (a favorite of readers of Quilters Newsletter since 1983), this treasury comes together much like the exquisite quilts Kelley creates: painstakingly pieced and stitched to convey not just a moment and its meaning, but the care and craft of quilting that lasts longer than thread holds out. Gathered in book form for the first time, the
Author: Carol Wilcox Well
Publisher: Lark Book
Keywords: designs, classic, stitches, jewelry, new, elegance, beadweaving, art
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-08-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1579905331
ISBN-13: 9781579905330
“Elegant contemporary jewelry....What artist-author Wells and her 30 colleagues conjure up in more than 30 bracelets, earrings, and necklaces is nothing short of breathtaking. All the projects can be readily mastered by beginners....One hundred percent of the fundamentals, from graphic illustrations and charts to accompanying text and great color photographs.” —Booklist.
Author: Don Linn
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Keywords: sashiko, amp, embroidery, applique, quilting, stitches, designs, sophisticated
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2009-11-16
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1571208658
ISBN-13: 9781571208651
Turn an ordinary quilt into an heirloom with these graceful, versatile designs. "Mr. Quilt" includes instructions for using the designs, a supply list, and help with mixing and matching to create your own original designs.
Author: Saurabh Dube
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: postcolonial, tangles, textures, colonial, time, stitches
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2004-04
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0822333376
ISBN-13: 9780822333371
Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history, the colonial and the postcolonial, and power and difference. Saurabh Dube combines history and anthropology to provide critical understandings of the theory and practice of historical ethnography and contemporary historiography. Drawing on extensive archival research and innovative fieldwork as well as political economy and social theory—including considerations of gender—he unpacks the implica
