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Essential tools and materials for textile artists, from the basics to advanced gadgets, to bring your fabric creations to life.

            Organising your workspace

            Creative development

            A row of files on a shelf

            Katherine Diuguid: Going for gold

            Artist interview

            Katherine Diuguid

            Choosing embroidery & fabric scissors

            Stitch picks

            (General image of scissors)|Embroidery scissors|Stork embroidery scissors. Photo: Karolina Grabowska (Pexels)|Merchant and Mills wide bow scissors. Photo: Merchant and Mills.|Hannah Mansfield

            Connection through creativity: How stitch-based friendships blossom online

            Creative development

            Mieke Lockefeer's textile artwork inspired by Stitch Club workshops by Shelley Rhodes|Jean Rill-Alberto

            Why you need a stitch tribe

            Creative development

            |A screenshot from the Gathering Threads Christmas online meet-up|Jessica Richardson's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Merill Comeau|Jessica Richardson's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Sabine Kaner|Sharon Eynon's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Vinny Stapley|Sharon Eynon's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Emily Notman|Yvonne Schlapfer-Parle's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Clarissa Callesen|Yvonne Schlapfer-Parle's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Richard McVetis|Sarah Bond's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Gregory T. Wilkins|Karen Hughes' piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Ailish Henderson|Karen Hughes' piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Haf Weighton|Joan Noble's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop by Caroline Nixon|Joan Noble's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Mandy Pattullo|Erica Staxenius' piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Mandy Pattullo|Erica Staxenius' piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Emily Tull|Becca Allen's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Stewart Kelly|Becca Allen's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Susie Vickery|Vicki Briggs' piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Anne Kelly|Marie Audéon's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Stewart Kelly|Marie Audéon's piece in response to a Stitch Club workshop from Stewart Kelly|

            Is it time to stop adding to your stash?

            Creative development

            |||Nigel Cheney: Cinquecento (Detail)|Nigel Cheney: Lethbridge (Detail)|Nigel Cheney: From the journey (Detail)|Barbara Cotterel: Deeply Foiled (Detail)|Barbara Cotterell: Teapot|Barbara Cotterel: Teacloth

            Karen Searle: Women’s work

            Artist interview

            Searle How Mother Dressed Me FEATURED IMAGE|Karen Searle

            How to photograph textile art

            Creative development

            How to photograph textile art

            Displaying & hanging textile art

            Creative development

            Hanging textile art|A page from Connected Cloth explaining how to hang fabric art|An image demonstrating how to hang textile art||Framing textile art guidelines by Anne Kelly|How to frame textile art and display it effective is an art within its self|An untitled textile hanging by Anne Kelly|An example of textile art hung in a gallery|A gallery of fabric and fiber art|Framed textile art by Cas Holmes|A studio installation of textiles|Hanging textile art is an art in itself|Connected Cloth by textile artists Anne Kelly and Cas Holmes|Anne Kelly is an expert in hanging textile art|Textile Hanging by Eszter Bornemisza at Festival of Quilts July 2013|Eszter Bornemisza installation at Festival of Quilts|Textile hanging|Freedom Installation of mounted textile art|

            Stitch Picks: The best sewing machines for textile art

            Stitch picks

            Bobbi Baugh’s Pfaff Portable Select 1536 sewing machine.|Bobbi Baugh’s Pfaff Portable Select 1536 sewing machine.|Katie Essam