MEREDITH WOOLNOUGH Organic Embroidery

Come on a creative journey with renowned textile artist Meredith Woolnough.

Bring you sketchbook and your sewing machine!

Meredith works with a unique form of embroidery, creating sculptural artworks with a domestic sewing machine and water-soluble fabric. Her ethereal embroidery explore and celebrate the beauty of nature, inspired by patterns and structures and forms of coral, leaves, and shells.

Her artwork is breathtaking, and now for the first time Meredith offers crafters and fiber artists a lesson in how to use the "organic embroidery' technique. Look behind the scenes of her art process, from the initial fieldwork sketching and research that inspired her designs, to the production of her embroidered sculptures. She guides you through 12 creativity-prompting activities to help you begin your own mastery of this method.

Join in this stitched celebration of nature's beauty. Try these simple but highly versatile techniques yourself, and apply them to your own artistic creations.

Paperback, 176 pages

Published by Schiffer Books, 2018