Two design books written and edited by John Hopper of The Textile Blog are available to buy from the following links: William Morris ...

Nature and Surface Pattern is one of a range of the history of design and decoration books by John Hopper. This book in particular exami...

We live in a world dominated by landscape, landscape of our own making – the human variety, but more obviously, the landscape of the...

Where do ideas come from? Where can interesting source material be found? What is inspiration and how can it be developed? How can you...

Claire Louise Mather: Springtime , detail Textile artists and nature so often seem to go hand in hand. It is not always the case that...

Illustration: Tamar Branitzky. Textile art There is a space in textiles, as in other disciplines, where art and design can play an in...

Illustration: Dominie Nash. Big Leaf Impromptu #8 , 2008. The Big Leaf series of textile art pieces by the artist Dominie Nash allows us t...

 Illustration: Carol Taylor. Bountiful quilt. Carol Taylor is a quilter of international renown who has created nearly five hundred unique...

Illustration: Nelda Warkentin. Summer Light. Nelda Warkentin's textile artwork can be said to have at its root, the acute observation ...