Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art
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The pleasures to be had from slowing down can be many, with connections to sustainability, simplicity, reflection, and tuning into traditional and other multicultural textile traditions.
Slow Stitch is a much-needed guide to adopting a less-is-more approach, valuing quality over quantity, and bringing a meaningful and thoughtful approach to textile practice.
Claire Wellesley-Smith introduces a range of ways in which you can slow your textile work down, including:
- Using simple techniques inspired by traditional practice (including hand-stitch rhythms)
- Reusing and re-inventing materials (reuse even old textile projects)
- Limiting your equipment
- Mending revisited (practical and decorative techniques)
- Project ideas and resources that help towards making a more sustainable textile practice
Richly illustrated throughout, and showcasing work from the best textile artists who work in this way, this is a truly inspirational book for those looking to reconnect with their craft and to find a new way of working.
Claire Wellesley-Smith
Claire Wellesley-Smith is a textile artist living and working in Yorkshire, UK. She teaches extensively, working in adult education, schools, community-based projects, museums and galleries. Her workshops involve sustainable stitch, repurposed cloth, and traditional techniques.
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Reviews for Slow Stitch
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I love the examples of cloth and fabric. So much inspiration!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very inspiring book! Love the mindful and soulful approach! Great.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting, inspiring, beautiful and a bit disappointing. don't want a paint-by numbers guide but pictures and information about what is done with these pieces. Exquisite photos but 99% are close ups of small bits.
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