Claire Wellesley-Smith

Discover a new, simpler, slower way to beautiful stitch textile art. 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...

This fascinating book explores how to introduce notions of time and place to your textile art practice, to give deeper meaning and emotional resonance to your work. Renowned British textile artist Claire Wellesley-Smith demonstrates how these two fundamental concepts are linked — we experience time through place, and vice versa — and make endlessly rewarding themes for textile art. Practical...

Following on from her textile hit, Slow Stitch, author Claire Wellesley-Smith considers the importance of connection and ideas around wellbeing when using textiles for individuals and communities. Practical ideas around 'thinking-through-making', using 'resonant' materials and extending the life of pieces using both traditional and non-traditional methods are explored. Contemporary textile artists using these themes in their work feature alongside personal...