The Textile Artist: The Art of Felting & Silk Ribbon Embroidery

I really like this book. It has lovely colour pictures and good instructions.

Excellent book for me. Easy reading for beginner and beyond.

Bought for a friend who loves arts and crafts - She approves highly

Wonderful book with very clear instructions.

What a fabulous book. Have never done felting so am really looking forward to trying it.

The combination of felting and silk ribbon embroidery is magical. Make felted backgrounds and enhance them with silk ribbon embroidery. Step-by-step instructions are included for felting and for making silk embroidered flowers and creatures. See how to wet felt with wool and silk embellishments; silk paper, needle felting or nuno felting. Learn the art of silk ribbon embroidery. There are 15 projects that also have step-by-step instructions, so this book is ideal from beginners upwards. Make a beautiful felted scarf with a silk ribbon embroidered detail; a throw with an embroidered border; a tablet or hot-water bottle cover, purse, handbag, sampler, spectacle case, wall art, bag, hold-all, bracelet or needle case. I like the projects, they have a contemporary feel. The sparrow on the purse is very special. For each project you see at a glance the materials you need with colour charts, needles, stitches and techniques, process, embroidery and finishing off. An illustrated gallery of stitches used in the projects is given too, clearly showing stitches such as French knot and how to make a rose, for example, with excellent large detailed line drawings in colour. The patterns are at the back of the book.  The book is beautifully illustrated throughout. Di van Niekerk is a well-known silk embroiderer and has joined forces with felter Toody Cassidy and used some designs from Chic Fusion in the book. The book was originally published in South Africa. This book is part of the Textile Artist series. Absolutely superb and highly recommended.

The first thing that strikes me about this book are the beautiful photos throughout illustrating the techniques, each stage and finished projects.The first part of the book deals with felting techniques and equipment. Always handy before starting any project to know what you are doing and to be well equipped, there are some items that you will need which won't be in your usual "stash" of craft equipment.The next section covers silk ribbon embroidery stitches and equipment. Every stage of the various stitches used in the projects is clearly illustrated.The projects themselves look absolutely stunning - the colours, ribbons and felting create true works of art. It would be easy to separate or combine individual components of several projects to come up with a unique new project.

What a lovely book! Not only does it give good clear instructions for wet felting and needlefelting, the silk ribbon embroidery instructions are clear and well illustrated. There are fifteen achievable projects in the book all in recipe format. The photography in the book is outstanding and just makes you want to try out all the different types of flowers shown. The wet felting instructions at the start of the book are worth the price of the book alone. There are handdrawn illustrations at the back of the book that can be enlarged to use as patterns for the ribbon embroidery.There is also a gallery of stitches used in the projects. An essential book for those wishing to try felting and silk ribbon embroidery.