Embroidery

Whether you are a keen embroiderer or simply love fabric and textiles, Embroidery magazine is filled with ideas and features to inspire you. Each edition is packed with colourful features on contemporary and traditional textiles, and keeps you up to date with news of the latest shows and events taking place around the UK. Our diary and what's on pages show you what's hot, while our features delve into the vibrant world of textiles, fashion and embroidery - covering everything from craft to catwalk and more! Our mission is to bring you the best of embroidery and textiles, talking to makers and stitchers who share their passion for embellishing the surface with us – giving our readers a unique insight into all facets of this sumptuous craft. In our book section, you'll find the latest books on fashion, embroidery and textiles.

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Embroidery

Festival of crewel jewels sparkles

Collect 2026 awards all-new bursaries

Remembering dad…

FROM RAGS TO RICHES

NEWS IN BRIEF

Big, bold and brave quilt finalists

GALLERY 57, ARUNDEL

APPEAL FOR FABRIC BOOKS TO HELP BLIND CHILDREN

out and about • SOME CRAFTY GETAWAYS

Can’t get a wink of sleep? • LAURA MOSELEY DESCRIBES THE MAKING OF A QUILT INSPIRED BY WOMEN’S SLEEP AND REST

UNDER THE SPANISH SUN • Barbara Long tells Ellen Bell about her creative spaces, bathed in Madrid’s clement weather

Gifted Guild Grads • Each year Embroiderers’ Guild trustees choose up to eight Guild Grads to exhibit alongside them at the Knit + Stitch shows in London and Harrogate. It’s a valuable chance for their work to be seen and the opportunity is also accompanied by career advice and a grant. Here, you can catch up with three of the Guild’s 2025/2026 cohort, who demonstrate a diversity of final-year projects. Discover more about our Guild Grads in the March/April issue…

NATURE MADE FLESH • Anneka French meets Tamara Kostianovsky, an artist whose visceral textile works link to personal history and the wider world

TALKING TEXTURE… • William Jefferies tells ClaireWaring about his trailblazing tapestry weaving

A hole in one? • Whether you have a hole in one or two socks these new books from Quickthorn, edited by Katy Bevan, provide fascinating reading

Sweets for my Sweet • CLAIRE WARING CHATS TO ‘INQUISITIVE BEE’ CAROLINE DAVIES

A NEW DAWN • THE YEAR AHEAD IS BURSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH HISTORIC EMBROIDERY, INNOVATION AND SOME SEW-PRISES.WE SELECT A FEW GEMS. WILL IT BE A BRIGHT YEAR FOR STITCH? WELL, WE CERTAINLY HOPE SO…

A BEACON OF EXCELLENCE • HAND & LOCK CELEBRATED A QUARTER-CENTURY OF THE HAND & LOCK PRIZE FOR EMBROIDERY WITH A GLITTERING HAUL OF PRIZE-WINNERS

Textile tributes to our FADING HIGH STREETS • Ellen Bell chats to Hâf Weighton about her solo show depicting the ebbing of high streets across Wales

For all who needle a little joy… (may cause excessive ‘Awwing’…) • ADRIANA TORRES’ TINY TALES IN THREAD ARE INFLUENCED BY A LOVE OF CHILDREN’S BOOK ILLUSTRATION

take 5 books • Embellish your clothes or create crewelwork designs

A thread through time • Cathy Cullis lives in a historic house, the perfect backdrop to her historically inspired textile art, finds Ellen Bell

Beat the Winter Blues • WITH OUR PAY AS YOU GO SUBSCRIPTION OFFER

Suzy’s big British birdwatch • Suzy Ager brings an ethereal feel to her avian textile art, which stars on our cover.

Wise words in red thread • ARTIST AND CARER SONIA CRIVELLO’S STITCHED HANDKERCHIEFS GIVE A VOICE TO THOSE AGED OVER-85.

THE PAINTED LADY • Deena Beverley meets doyenne of embellishment Diane Bates, at her studio and home-based gallery

Norway’s masterpiece of epic Bayeux proportions...