As part of my spring clean I've decided to clear out many of my old books. This would've been unthinkable in the past, but now I know for sure that I'll never read them again - if I wanted to revisit any I'd just buy them as ebooks. In our household the number of books runs into the thousands rather than hundreds and I think we are very overdue for a cull.
One of the few exceptions that I couldn't bear to part with, and definitely not suitable for Kindle reading, is my collection of arts, crafts and sewing books. I always have these types of books on my Christmas wish list, they are usually hardbacks and always beautifully illustrated, and above all so inspiring. Each one is a visual feast and I can't really say that I have an out and out favourite, I love 'em all!
Clearly my bookcases are in need of a spring spruce up ~ no cull, just a tidy! That is a bunch of Honesty seed pods that has fallen down the back ~ I wondered where they'd gone!
I was having a rainy Sunday morning search on Amazon.co.uk and I found this book which I thought looked really interesting:
Lace in Translation
Book Description
For "Lace in Translation", the European designers Tord Boontje and Demakersvan and the North American sculptor Cal Lane were commissioned to create site-specific installations recasting traditional notions of lace and its making. These three internationally renowned figures deployed unexpected materials and technologies that range from a hand-woven raffia curtain and laser-cut fabrics, to lace filigree cut into a steel oil tank and burned into grass, to a chain-link fence woven in a Quaker Lace design.
Here is the link:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lace-Translation-Matilda-McQuaid/dp/0615296432/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1365943468&sr=1-4
I'm not sure I'll buy it, I wish it had the 'look inside' facility which many books have on the Amazon site. Perhaps I could see if the library in Perth would order it in for me, they're usually pretty good.
Does anyone have a favourite art or textiles book they can recommend? I'd love to know what other people's favourites are.
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