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Soulful Stitch

Finding creativity in crisis

By: Cas Holmes,Deena Beverley

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Soulful Stitch

Finding creativity in crisis

By: Cas Holmes,Deena Beverley

A thoughtful, meditative guide to the ways creative textile art can soothe and comfort us during challenging times. Renowned British textile artists Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, each well known for their richly textured, deeply evocative work in stitch, collaborate for the first time in this important and timely book. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of work from both artists along with other embroiderers and textile artists from around the world, Soulful Stitch documents a wide range of stitched responses to crisis, both personal and global. With invaluable advice on how to develop your own work in times of trouble, it explores: • How the restrictions and trials of everyday life can inform your textile work, enabling you to develop imaginative new approaches. • The healing power of stitch to soothe and console, with the simple act of putting needle into fabric providing a mindful route to inner calm. • Practical ways to continue with your textile art practice in the face of seismic life changes, finding creative opportunity in difficult situations. • How to use found objects, repurposed threads and personal items to create deep emotional resonance in your own work. Both authors have recent lived experience of having to navigate new paths through big life challenges, making this book particularly heartfelt. It truly demonstrates how even in the toughest times, creativity in textile art can keep you afloat.

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312

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Batsford Books

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184994993X

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9781849949934

From the Iron House

Imprisonment in First Nations Writing

By: Deena Rymhs

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From the Iron House

Imprisonment in First Nations Writing

By: Deena Rymhs

In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature. Addressing the work of writers like Tomson Highway and Basil Johnston along with that of lesser-known authors writing in prison serials and underground publications, this book emphasizes the literary and political strategies these authors use to resist the containment of their institutions. The first part of the book considers a diverse sample of writing from prison serials, prisoners’ anthologies, and individual autobiographies, including Stolen Life by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, to show how these works serve as second hearings for their authors—an opportunity to respond to the law’s authority over their personal and public identities while making a plea to a wider audience. The second part looks at residential school narratives and shows how the authors construct identities for themselves in ways that defy the institution’s control. The interactions between these two bodies of writing—residential school accounts and prison narratives—invite recognition of the ways that guilt is colonially constructed and how these authors use their writing to distance themselves from that guilt. Offering new ways of reading Native writing, From the Iron House is a pioneering study of prison literature in Canada and situates its readings within international criticism of prison writing. Contributing to genre studies and theoretical understandings of life writing, and covering a variety of social topics, this work will be relevant to readers interested in indigenous studies, Canadian cultural studies, postcolonial studies, auto/biography studies, law, and public policy.

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160

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771120576

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9781771120579

String

The Art of Decorating with String in 25 Beautiful Projects

By: Deena Beverley

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String

The Art of Decorating with String in 25 Beautiful Projects

By: Deena Beverley

The age-old craft of stringwork is updated and transformed with inspirational designs and exciting projects for you to try at home. Create beautiful and functional objects as diverse as a String-Wrapped Picture Frame and a Coiled String Needlework Basket. The author reveals the wide range of materials and equipment now readily available, and explains the basic techniques, including threading, whipping and appliqueing along with advice on getting started and examples of fine work.

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100

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Southwater Publishing

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1842157531

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9781842157534

Flowercrafts

Practical Inspirations for Natural Gifts, Country Crafts and Decorative Displays

By: Deena Beverley

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Flowercrafts

Practical Inspirations for Natural Gifts, Country Crafts and Decorative Displays

By: Deena Beverley

Flowercrafts will delight the enthusiastic craftsperson, decorator and the creative lover of flowers with its contemporary and stunning visual approach.

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1859673740

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9781859673744

Soulful Stitch

Finding creativity in crisis

By: Cas Holmes,Deena Beverley

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Finding creativity in crisis

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Batsford Books

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Ribboncraft

More Than 20 Classic Projects

By: Deena Beverley

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Ribboncraft

More Than 20 Classic Projects

By: Deena Beverley

Presents more than twenty Victorian-style projects that can be made with ribbons, explaining the types of ribbons and their characteristics, as well as embroidery stitching

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128

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Miller/Mitchell Beazley

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1857327896

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9781857327892

Flowercrafts

By: Deena Beverley

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Flowercrafts

By: Deena Beverley

Celebrating the glories of flowers in the home, this book moves beyond flower arranging to present gloriously original suggestions for fabulous flower effects and floral objects.

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136

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Lorenz Books

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0754810259

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9780754810254

Cupboards and Doors in a Weekend

By: Deena Beverley

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Cupboards and Doors in a Weekend

By: Deena Beverley

This title provides practical and cost effective solutions to solve the problem of boring doors and ugly cupboards and kitchen units that can otherwise be expensive to replace.

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