Historic Crafts

I have just moved all the old posts from the www.historic-crafts.com domain (which is now closed) over to this new blog. Feel free to have a...

Embroidered Textiles - A World Guide to Traditional Patterns Sheila Paine, 2010 Thames & Hudson Reviewed by Eddie This amazing...

Textiles of the Islamic World by John Gillow, 2010 Thames & Hudson Reviewed by Eddie This book seems to mark the culmination o...

Please welcome another really informative spinning post from guest blogger Cecile ( Ways of the Whorl ). For quite a while after I started ...

Spinning Wool: Beyond the Basics by Anne Field, 2010 (Revised edition) A & C Black Publishers Spinning Wool: Beyond the Basics ...

This is a portrait of Cecile Renaud, a fairly new hand spinner, who is already very accomplished and has some exciting things to share about...

By Inny I first published this article over on my own blog IngridNation . My 'specialist subject' is craft skills education, an...