Alison J Reid
Alison J Reid is a teacher, textile designer, author and illustrator. She gained a degree in Fashion and Textiles from Liverpool Polytechnic, (now known as Liverpool...
Michael Powell
Michael Powell's love of buildings and architecture are the main inspiration for his work, normally created in pen and ink and watercolour. Michael's unique style...
Kristen Gula
Kristen Gula is a self-taught fibre artist specialising in hand embroidery. She set up her own company, Gulush Threads in 2013, which is home to her unique, custom...
Country Bumpkin
Compiled by the expert team at Country Bumpkin, renowned Australian publishers of embroidery books and magazines.
Ann Cox
First and foremost, Ann Cox is a silk ribbon embroidery designer who runs her own company selling silk ribbons and kits. She teaches at colleges of further education,...
Laura Angell
Laura Angell is a visual artist originally from Sheffield, UK, now living and working in Ireland. She has exhibited her work across the UK and Ireland and gives...
Lesley Wilkins
Lesley Wilkins discovered blackwork samplers on a school visit to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London when she was only ten, and has been hooked ever since....
Kay Dennis
Kay Dennis is a professional embroiderer and former Chairman of the Guild of Needle Laces. She has been teaching both needlelace and stumpwork for many years and...
Jane Rainbow
Jane Rainbow is a successful professional embroiderer, teacher and consultant. She designs and markets a range of kits, has produced her own crewel embroidery video...
Nancy Nicholson
Nancy Nicholson grew up in a creative environment as her parents were both textile designers. She attended Maidstone College of Art where she did a BA in Graphic...
Bernadette Baldelli
Bernadette Baldelli graduated from Paris’s prestigious Duperré School of Applied Arts, where she specialized in textiles. She has worked for DMC, created...
Jo Dixey
Jo Dixey’s love of embroidery and stitching began in early childhood and progressed from her main leisure activity to her job, when in 1991 she attended...
Hazel Blomkamp
Hazel Blomkamp has taught embroidery and beadwork in South Africa for over 20 years. She is the author of Crewel Animal Portraits, Crewel Birds, Crewel Twists, Crewel...
Tatiana Popova
Tatiana Popova is a Ukrainian embroiderer based in the UK. She learnt to stitch at an early age and for a time pursued her passion for stitching by studying a huge...
Inspirations Studios
With a rich history forged with needle and thread, Inspirations Studios publishes the world’s most beautiful needlework books and magazines. This work has...
Hélène Le Berre
Hélène Le Berre is a talented designer who graduated from the Duperré School of Applied Arts. She has been creating her lovely embroidered designs...
Hisako Nishisu
Hisako Nishisu studied European embroidery under Fumie Itagaki. She is the director of JACA (the Japan Art & Craft Association) where she is involved in promoting...
Di Van Niekerk
An artistically inclined mother and a keen interest in all things beautiful got Di van Niekerk off to an early start as an embroiderer. Her love for this discipline...
Judy Wilford
Judy works with the mediums of fabric and thread and the many and varied techniques of hand embroidery. Her unique embroideries draw on years of personal study and...
Lorna Bateman
Lorna Bateman is passionate about embroidery, nature and teaching. She has been working full-time as an embroidery teacher and designer since 1989. Her teaching...
Jan Messent
Jan Messent qualified as a teacher in the mid-50s and, after teaching Art, History and English, became deeply involved with embroidery as an art form. As a member...
Dr Annette Collinge
Annette Collinge has had a lifelong interest in embroidery. She is a life member of The Embroiderers’ Guild, and has been a Branch Chairman, Regional Chairman...
Poppy Treffry
Poppy Treffry owns her own company making beautiful and unique accessories for fashion and the home. The company started in 2004 and now sells to some of the UK's...