Free Motion Machine Embroidery, Needlework, Traditional Hand Embroidery, or Stitch for Shibori and Surface Design — available from Galli Creative.
Claire Benn • Jan Beaney • Jean Littlejohn • Ana Lisa Hedstrom • Alison Holt • Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada
Galli Creative is proud to be the home of video and print publications covering a wide range of stitch and embroidered textiles from Europe, North America and Asia. From Japanese stitched shibori to free motion machine embroidery, we offer a view of stitch that is inviting, creative, and welcoming towards developing your own unique style and results.

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- BOOKS, Committed to Cloth, Print Editions - New, RC ARTISTS
Finding Your Own Visual Language • Benn, Dunnewold & Morgan
- $38.00
- A transatlantic collaboration between Jane Dunnewold, Claire Benn and Leslie Morgan, the third book in the Committed to Cloth series aims to help those who are seeking a surer artistic voice by providing practical exercises and guidance on different ways forward.
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- Digital Editions (Videos), VIDEOS / WORKSHOPS
Arimatsu Narumi Shibori: Celebrating 400 Years of Japanese Artisan Design
- Learn Shibori (Japanese resist dyeing) from start to finish. Detailed recordings of each step, including designing and stenciling, dyeing and drying, thread removal and steam finishing. Demonstrations on cotton and silk fabrics, by master Shibori artists from Japan.
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- Digital Editions (Videos), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, DVDS, VIDEOS / WORKSHOPS
Interpretations: Look, Record, Draw • Beaney & Littlejohn
- $55.00
- In this 5+ hour workshop from Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn, we learn to look -- becoming aware of what attracts us, record -- collecting ideas for later development, and finally draw -- developing what we saw and recorded into finished drawings and illustrations. We explore many techniques including drawing, painting, collage and making marks. As Jan and Jean love…
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- Digital Editions (Videos), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, DVDS, VIDEOS / WORKSHOPS
In Stitches • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $42.00
- Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn provide an inspirational guide to hand embroidery stitching, using traditional and contemporary stitch techniques along the way.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, Embroidery & Stitch, RC ARTISTS
Just One More Thing: Review, Revisit, Remind • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $18.50
- Jan and Jean tackle their most commonly asked questions in this book which offers hints and reminders on a variety of embroidery and mixed media subjects.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, Embroidery & Stitch, RC ARTISTS
Location, Location • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- See design opportunities in the places around you, showing locations to stimulate you, materials and tools to excite you, and interpretations to inspire you.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Embroidery & Stitch
Embellish and Enrich • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- In this book we have set about looking at ways of producing surfaces that are multi-layered and in some cases richly extravagant. As well as using stitches and additions such as beads we will look at the use of the embellishing machine to create fabulous surfaces.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital
Red • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- The color Red in its many shades and hues provides the focus for a range of inspirational samples from diverse and unexpected sources.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital
Grids to Stitch • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- This book shows you a variety of grids as a source for design and shows how they can be converted into wonderful works of textile art.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital
New Dimensions in Hand and Machine Embroidery • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- New Dimensions in Hand and Machine Embroidery explores two innovative approaches to combining hand and machine stitching creating imaginative surface design in textiles and embroidery.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, Embroidery & Stitch
Trees as a Theme • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- In this book we learn how to look at Trees as a wonderful source of inspiration for design. We record what we see — such as textures, colors, patterns and shapes, and interpret these into creating our own unique designs.
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- BOOKS, Digital Editions (FlipBooks), Double Trouble - Jan & Jean, Double Trouble Ent Digital, Embroidery & Stitch
Conversations with Constance • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Constance Howard, MBE (1910-2000) was the foremost pioneer of creative embroidery in Great Britain in the second half of the 20th century. This review in book form of her life and work includes personal memories she shared with the authors in the last years of her life.