Book Reviews

Schiffer Craft, an imprint that publishes craft books and kits, offered review copies of three recent textile-focused books to Textile Society of America members. TSA is pleased to publish their ...

The R. L. Shep Memorial Book Award is now in its twenty-third year and the number of nominated books has grown substantially in recent award cycles. The guidelines for the ...

Four books have been selected by TSA’s Shep Award Book Committee for a shortlist of titles published in 2021 under consideration for this year’s R. L. Shep Award. The four ...

The judges serving on TSA’s Book Award Committee have selected a shortlist of three titles for this year’s R. L. Shep Award, for books published in 2020. The three were ...

Reviewed by Catharine Ellis Book cover for "Workbook: Antoine Janot’s Colours" by Dominque Cardon and Iris Brémaud. Courtesy of authors. Any serious student or practitioner of natural dyeing is familiar ...

TSA member Roy W. Hamilton has co-authored the following review with Dr. Ruth Barnes, Geneviève Duggan, Traude Gavin, Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff, Sandra Niessen, and Tim G. Babcock in response to Peter ...

Reviewed by Kristin Scheel Lunde This boxed set containing Every Thread A Story and The Secret Language of Miao Embroidery charts the artistry of seventeen villages located in the southwestern ...

Ikat: The Essential Handbook to Weaving Resist-Dyed Cloth Reviewed by Wendy Weiss “Ikat is not a technique for the faint of heart,” says the author, Mary Zicafoose. Writing a how-to ...

By Lynda Teller Pete and Barbara Teller Ornelas Reviewed by Deborah Corsini How to Weave a Navajo RugAnd Other Lessons from Spider Woman Navajo weaving is a precise, complicated and ...

The Persian Carpet Tradition by P.R.J. Ford P. R. J. “Jim” Ford’s The Persian Carpet Tradition, from Hali Publications, is the winner of TSA’s R. L. Shep Award for the ...

This article was originally published in the Fall 2019 issue of the TSA Newsletter. The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch Author: Susan Brandeis Published ...