SUGGESTED READING
FIBER ARTS
Suggested readings about the making of textile arts.
EMBROIDERY
The Handstitched Surface. Lynn Krawczyk. (2017)
Handbook of Stitches. Grete Petersen and Elsie Svennås. (1970)
MARK-MAKING WITH THREAD
Mark-Making: Fresh Inspiration for Quilt and Fiber Artists. Helen Parrott. (2013)
Mindful Stitch: Generating Dialogue In and Around the Threads of Well-being. Emma Swinnerton. (2015)
Drawn to Stitch: Line, Drawing, and Mark-Making in Textile Art. Gwen Hedlel. (2010)
QUILTING
The New Sampler Quilt. Diana Leone. (1993)
The Fabric Makes the Quilt. Roberta Horton. (1995)
TEXTILE ARTS
Fragmentation & Repair for Mixed-Media & Textile Artists. Shelley Rhodes. (2021)
Resilient Stitch: Wellbeing & Connection in Textile Art. Claire Wellesley-Smith. (2021)
Slow Stitch: Mindful & Contemplative Textile Art. Claire Wellesley-Smith. (2015)
Using Textile Arts and Handcrafts in Therapy with Women: Weaving Lives Back Together. Anna Futterman Collier. (2011)
ARTS IN COMMUNITY
Suggested readings about the relationship between makers and the larger world.
FIBER ART PROJECTS
Peace Fibres. Karen Lohn. (2011)
The Quilt: Stories from the Names Project. Cindy Ruskin. (1998)
QUILTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE
A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories. Roland Freeman. (1996)
And Still We Rise: Race, Culture, and Visual Conversations. Carolyn Mazloomi. (2015)
Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary African American Quilts. Carolyn Mazloomi. (1998)
The Creative Connection for Groups: Person-Centered Expressive Arts for Healing & Social Change. Natalie Rogers. (1993)
HEALING ARTS
Suggested readings about therapeutic aspects of needlecraft & quilting.
Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul. Shaun McNiff. (2004)
Art is a Spiritual Path: Engaging the Sacred through the Practice of Art & Writing. Pat B. Allen. (2005)
The Mandala Workbook: A Creative Guide for Self-Exploration, Balance, and Well-Being. Suzanne Fincher. (2009)
Zen and the Art of Needlecraft: Exploring the Links Between Needlecraft, Spirituality, and Creativity. Sandra Detrixhe. (2005)
Zen and the Art of Quilting: Finding Peace Through Piecework. Sandra Detrixhe. (2016)
EXPRESSIVE ARTS
Suggested readings about therapeutic aspects of the arts.
Atkins, S., Adams,M, McKinney, C, McKinney, H., Rose, L., Wentworth, J. & Woodworth, J. (2003). Expressive arts therapy: Creative process in arts and life. Boone, NC: Parkway Publishers, Inc.
Csikszentmihályi, M. (2008). Flow: The psychology of personal experience. New York, NY: Harper Perennial.
Knill, P.J., Levine, E.G., & Levine, S. K. (2005). Principles and practice of expressive arts therapy. Philadelphia, PA: Jessica Kingsly Publishers.
McNiff, S. (2003). Creating with others: The practice of imagination in life, art, and the workplace. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc.
Pennebaker, J.W. & Evans, J.F. ( 2014). Expressive writing: Words that heal. Enumclaw, WA: Idyll Arbor, Inc.