My second book was published in June 2009 and is now available to order from my web site www.lizard-dance.com .

This book introduces original African sources using as starting points:

   ·        Material

   ·        Construction

   ·        Recycling

   ·        Decoration

   ·        Embroidery

These topics are the starting points for developing ideas. The focus is on innovation and imaginative use of materials. There are clear instructions with samples to explore:

·        Dyeing with woad

·        Print and text on fabric

·        Piecing & patching African style

·        Recycling found objects

·        Metal & patinating fluid

·        Bonding paper and fabric

·        Surface stitch

·        Edges and embellishments

There are over 120 new photographs which illustrate the text.

Copies can be obtained from Bailey at 7 Lancaster Terrace, Newent, Glos,
GL18 1EA. The book is £12.99 plus £1.50 post and packing.

This exciting book by Kay Greenlees explores different approaches to keeping sketchbooks. Through exploration of the purposes of a sketchbook and examples from leading textile artists and embroiderers’ it provides an inspirational platform from which to develop your own personal practice. There are over 90 fantastic colour illustrations providing fascinating glimpses into the personal sketchbook pages of a variety of practitioners. The different approaches include drawing and collage; fabric and thread; annotation and thumbnails; exploring concepts; working on location; museum study and many more.

African Inspirations in Embroidery

This lavishly illustrated book contains over 90 colour images of the African people and landscape encountered in my travels and research expeditions in southern Africa. These images together with textiles, beadwork and artefacts from my personal collection are used as inspiration to explore the journey from source material through the design process to completed textiles.

• A wide variety of media, materials and techniques are included to explore colour, pattern and surface texture.
• A range of textile techniques and working samples provide ideas for experimentation.
• The work of leading textile artists is featured showing their responses to an African theme.

African Inspirations in Embroidery
was re-printed in  April 2009 as a paper back with a new cover.

This is available from Amazon and from my web site  www.lizard-dance.com as well.

A book focusing on the many aspects of cold water dyeing, from direct painting to discharging, thickened dye and devoré.

Embroidered Purses

It covers a section on the fascinating history of purses, surveys purses from around the world and looks at inspirational purses by some of the best contemporary makers in Britain. Sources of design and methods of construction are accompanied by over a hundred clear diagrams, along with detailed instructions on how to make several types of purses. Inspirational ideas for further embellishments, handles, fastenings and tassels as well as the use of paper, wood and wire are also lavishly illustrated in colour with more than ninety beautiful photographs by one of Britain’s leading textile photographers.