Books published by Search Press Ltd

Embroider 30 stunning floral motifs to stitch onto bags, clothes and accessories.

A collection of 20 sumptuously beautiful, contemporary projects, based on traditional knitting styles and techniques from the Scottish Isles and Scandinavia.

Sew 25 stylish, reusable projects to help reduce waste.

A fun how-to sketchbook for drawing portraits and selfies!Sketch Your Best Self is a quirky guide to drawing all kinds of faces - starting with your own! The book is split into four sections, covering the basics, how to draw faces, building bodies and selfie style. This comprises how to draw features, how to create different expressions, drawing bodies and limbs and lots of fun stuff including how to create a selfie in pop art style, full colour, monochrome and retro classics style. So pucker up for creating lips, decide if today is a good or bad hair day, practise some photobooth-style expressions, build your friends limb by limb, add some attitude, then try out the fun and whimsical drawing challenges with super fun pages based around Snapchat style filters. Don't be left out - this beautiful book is fully inclusive and can be enjoyed by everyone!

Packed with key skills and friendly know-how, this essential guide is ideal for anyone taking their first steps into dressmaking.

Discover 40 stylish summer designs specially chosen by Debbie from her much-loved Half Yard (TM) series

Learn the ancient art of illumination and hand lettering to create beautiful journal pages, invitations and cards.

In this invaluable stitch guide, Jacqui McDonald, Graduate Apprentice and tutor at the Royal School of Needlework shows you detailed instructions on how to work basic and more complex stitches.

An inspiring, direct guide to painting beautiful portraits alla prima.

Transform your ideas about creative, fabric embellishment for textile art that's full of meaning and astounding texture, in this inspiring book by award-winning textile art tutor and artist Jan Dowson.

Learn to draw a collection of adorable fantastical creatures, some from myth, some strange hybrids, from Angela Nguyen's own imagination.

Get started with learning calligraphy with this portable, easy-to-use book.

Explore exciting new ways of using graphite, charcoal and mixed media to create dramatic landscape drawings, under the expert tutelage of Robert Dutton.

The fourth title in Hazel Blomkamp's series on crewel embroidery with a twist, with six flamboyant farm and game birds to stitch.

Over 40 adaptable sweaters to knit for your little ones, based on the classic, minimal and quietly-stunning jumpers of Dutch fishermen.

A practical, step-by-step guide which clearly shows how to create beautiful raised and padded embroideries.

A beginner's guide to drawing people in 10 simple steps and short explanations.

Vic Bearcroft has been named Winner of the Endangered Species category in the BBC WILDLIFE ARTIST OF THE YEAR 2012 competition for his painting of 'Makaku' which is featured in this book.

Screen printing is made accessible in this beautiful step-by-step guide featuring twelve projects.

Learn how to invest your watercolour landscapes with character and ambiance that will lift them out of the everyday into something extraordinary. Barry Herniman shows the reader how to capture the essence of a scene, and to inject that extra something: mood and atmosphere. This 'extra something' is what many watercolor artists seek, and it is clearly explained and beautifully demonstrated in this practical and enthralling guide to painting a variety of landscapes. This beautiful title brings Barry Herniman's stunning artwork to the fore with a sumptuous redesign.

Take your first steps with pastels and learn how to produce modern, lively and colourful artwork with this exciting medium.