Cloth Stories - Ali Ferguson

Cloth Stories by Ali Ferguson is a textile artist’s guide to making intimate, nostalgic work inspired by the home. This hardback edition is subtitled Capturing Domestic Life in Textile Art.

Key details

• Author: Ali Ferguson
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 128
• Publisher: Batsford
• Publication date: 31 May 2024
• ISBN: 9781849948180

Synopsis

Ali Ferguson draws on domestic life and the objects that surround us, pairing vintage fabric with hand-embroidered text to create evocative pieces shaped by everyday experience. In Cloth Stories, she shares her approach to finding inspiration at home and explains how she combines embroidery, quilting, collage and found objects to build finished work.

The opening chapters introduce her process, from developing ‘threads of thought’ and mind maps rooted in small details, to translating ideas into stitch and choosing materials to suit the mood you want to convey. Later chapters move room by room through a typical home, offering prompts for drawing on memories, stories and emotions to create intensely personal textile art. Illustrated with work by the author and other textile artists, it is suited to artists and embroiderers looking to explore new sources of inspiration close to home.

Rackhams Reference : P58IQFPC18