Books published by Search Press Ltd

This much-needed book features all you need to create beautiful stitched work. Helen McCook includes the major stitches, with expert advice on padding, couching, using colour and mixing techniques. While covering the traditions of goldwork, she develops techniques offering innovative design, new ideas and inspiration.

Learn how to paint beautiful flowers and plants in watercolour using a simple 10-step process.

150 flexible knitted and crocheted motifs to mix and match to make beautiful afghans, blankets and throws.

Learn to make beautiful, stylish Christmas decorations using eco-friendly materials that won't cost a fortune or harm the planet!

An expert guide to popular surface-stitching techniques, suitable for stitchers of all abilities.

Learn to draw 28 mountain animals from scratch in a few easy steps.

Create nine stunning quilts and 11 desirable gifts using contemporary big-stitch quilting.

This book showcases Angela Gaughan's exquisite works of art, and provide an insight into her distinctive techniques she uses to achieve her amazingly detailed, life-like paintings of animals, people and more.

A comprehensive guide to drawing the natural world - from plants and landscapes to domestic and wild animals - by master artist and best-selling author, Giovanni Civardi.

Unravel the mysteries of colour and learn how to be more confident with your watercolour choices.

Taking flowers as its theme, this beautiful book offers textile artists a unique insight into the design process itself as well as expert guidance on broad range of techniques and materials.

Learn how to make and embellish six fabulous felt hats.

55 expressive abstract projects to paint with tons of inspirational ideas and techniques to use.

A book that anyone who is an artist, embroiderer, textile artist or simply a lover of beautiful books will want to own.The embroidery of Jane E Hall is breathtaking, and in this gorgeous book she combines her love of butterflies with her outstanding talent as a textile artist to produce three-dimensional renditions of exquisitely worked butterflies that are almost indistinguishable from the real thing. Using the finest of silk threads and needles, Jane lovingly creates her butterflies'' wings using the tiniest of stitches worked on to silk. They are then carefully cut away and the edges strengthened with hair-fine wire before being attached to the bodies, carefully crafted from air-drying modelling medium and brushed with whisper-fine threads to resemble hairs. The butterflies are then placed within a setting of silk leaves and flowers, all made with the same painstaking attention to detail and expert skill as the butterflies themselves. This book provides a fascinating introduction to butterflies in nature, reflecting Jane''s love and admiration for these exquisite creatures, and goes on to describe the materials and methods Jane uses to produce her incredible creations. Twelve projects, each based on a different butterfly including the Painted Lady, Small Tortoiseshell and the Brimstone, present the finished piece along with the materials Jane used, and the photographs, swatches, drawings and paintings that inspired it. One of the most striking features of this book is the amazing photography of Jane''s work, including detailed close-ups, which, together with Jane''s poetic and inspiring text, make this a book that anyone who is an artist, embroiderer, textile artist or simply a lover of beautiful books - will want to own.

The ultimate knitting book with tips and techniques for all skill levels.

Over a dozen Scandi-inspired garments and accessories to make for boys and girls aged 3 to 9.

Learn how to use the grid technique to draw accurate sketches of your cats, dogs and horse from photographs and more, with the help of master artist Giovanni Civardi.

Learn how to use the grid technique to draw accurate sketches of people from photographs and more, with the help of master artist Giovanni Civardi.

An ideal beginner's guide to painting animals and birds in watercolour for artists who are short on time.

An important collection of beautiful, historically significant iron-on transfer designs from the Embroiderers' Guild.