The Crowood Press

23/01/2025

It’s been an entire year since we published Printing with Natural Dyes by Nicola Cliffe. 🍃

This practical guide explains the techniques and provides ideas and inspiration to get you printing with natural dyes at home.

21/01/2025

Congratulations to Jessica Light on the publication of Passementerie. 👏🏼

Passementerie is the most comprehensive book ever written on the skills of this endangered heritage craft.

Written by London’s last working passementier, it explains the woven and non-woven techniques that make stunning trims and tassels for rooms and outfits.

16/01/2025

Congratulations to Joyce Meader on the publication of A Knitter’s Guide to World War I. 🧶

During World War I, thousands of garments and accessories were knitted for the men at the front to help with the war effort. This book brings together the genuine military knitting patterns of the day, taken from wool company booklets, needlework magazines and government pamphlets.

14/01/2025

Introducing Medical Art by Joanna Cameron. 🩻

Medical Art introduces the methods, principles and techniques that form the foundations for the successful medical artist. It focuses on artworks created by hand and places a strong emphasis on observational and drawing skills.

09/01/2025

Introducing Knife Making by Owen Bush. 🔪

With over 250 photographs and detailed step-by-step instructions, Knife Making explains the complete process from how to forge a blade through to making a handle.

Informative and detailed, this book is the perfect companion for bladesmiths.

07/01/2025

Arriving later this month, A Witch’s Year by Levannah Morgan is a compendium of magic, lore, rituals, observances, spells, crafts, meditations, visualisations and all manner of practices that will bring you into a deeper relationship with all the beings who share this world with us, with the spirit world and with the gods.

Written by one of Britain’s most well-respected and influential witches, and superbly illustrated by Nooka Shepherd, with every passing month, you will discover how this great tide works through your magical life.

02/01/2025

Congratulations to Šárka Darton on the publication of her brilliant new book, Drawing Hands and Feet. ✋🏼

This practical and inspiring book explains how to draw realistic hands and feet.

With a focus on the importance of practice and observation, it looks first at fundamental anatomy and external structures before explaining how to simplify form and develop your own artistic style.

19/12/2024

Congratulations to Catherine and Matt West on the publication of their brilliant new book, Designing and Making Tableware at the Wheel.

Practical and accessible, personal and technical, this inspiring book is invaluable for all makers, whatever their experience, who want to create wheel-thrown tableware.

Available now at crowood.com 📚

17/12/2024

Thank you to Machine Knitting Monthly for their lovely review of Modern Quilting by Cait Moreton-Lisle. 🪡

12/12/2024

The Organic Vegetable Grower by Phil Sumption is now a year old. 🥕

This fantastic book is a practical guide for those growing, or wishing to grow, market and sell organic vegetables for a living.

Thank you to Hugh Chapman from The Organic Grower for his review. 📖

10/12/2024

Congratulations to Laura Sowerby on the publication of her lovely new book, Botanical Prints in Linocut. 🌸

Written with the author’s natural passion and illustrated with her beautiful work, this book is an inspiring guide for all printmakers whatever their experience or ambitions.

Available now at crowood.com just in time for Christmas. 🎄

09/12/2024

05/12/2024

The Art and Craft of Wood Engraving is now a year old. 🥳

This practical book is a step-by-step guide to the process of wood engraving. With a strong emphasis on drawing a design, it explains the range of mark-making, texture and tonal subtleties that are so unique to this form of relief printmaking.
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03/12/2024

Congratulations to Mitch Peacock on the publication of his brilliant new book, Dovetails: The Hand Tool Approach. 👏🏼

Dovetails is a comprehensive guide to the hand-tool preparation of dovetail joinery. Containing over 400 photographs and diagrams, it details how to make 28 dovetail joints, from the simplest example through to complicated puzzle joints.

29/11/2024

Congratulations to Alex Finberg on the publication of his brilliant new book, Spoon Carving. 🪵

Whatever your experience, this book has all the instructions you need to carve beautiful spoons from logs of green wood. This guide will inspire and nourish you in a craft that benefits both body and soul.
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