This new book from best-selling author and textile artist Cas Holmes explores paper, cloth, and thread and the connections between material and place.

Cas explores how different materials interact with each other, and how that can act as a microcosm for how we interact with our wider environment. She uses a variety of materials such as silk, household paint, wallpaper, ink, and thread that otherwise may not be used in the same context, and explores the dynamic qualities and textures that come from overlapping these different worlds.

Cas’s many sources of inspiration include gardening, which can be observed in the found objects she transforms from old and weathered to layered and landscape-like, and her time spent studying in Japan, which has impacted how she sees and uses different materials to achieve shadow and reflection through textile manipulation.

In this book, there are examples of other artists’ works that also use interesting materials and techniques in the pursuit of textile art innovation, and through these and Cas’s latest projects, you will be taken on a journey through her inspirations and how you can use your own surroundings to inspire your artistic practice through different forms of recording, collecting, and upcycling.

About The Author

Cas Holmes is one of the UK’s most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College in West Sussex. She is the author of Textile Landscape, Stitch Stories, The Found Object in Textile Art, Embroidering the Everyday, and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines and websites including Embroidery, The Quilter, and TextileArtist, and for the Festival of Quilts. She lives in Maidstone, Kent.