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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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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Grids to Stitch • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- 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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New Dimensions in Hand and Machine Embroidery • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- 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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Trees as a Theme • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- 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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Conversations with Constance • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $10.00
- 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.
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Reflections, Echoes & Aspirations • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $21.95
- Limited Quantity of Signed Print Editions Available! The book, Reflections, Echoes and Aspirations chronicles the sketch and stitch journey of Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn through the ups and downs of the Covid pandemic. Drawing inspiration from the moment, they doubled down on their creativity, producing a body of work that was inspired by their immediate surroundings, reflective moments, detailed…
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Connections • Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Digital Edition – View Online + Download Today In book 14 from Jan Beaney and Jean Littlejohn we will explore "connections" -- in relationship to fabrics, threads, ideas and inspirations. From the most primitive responses to more complex and sophisticated techniques we seek to encourage fresh approaches to this most exciting of areas.
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OVER THE LINE : COUCHING REDISCOVERED
- $12.50
- Jan Beaney & Jean Littlejohn Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Jan and Jean demonstrate a variety of approaches with couching embroidery stitches with an emphasis on experimentation, incorporating new and exciting materials along the way.
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Voluptuous Velvet • Jean Littlejohn
- $12.50
- Digital Edition – Read Online + Download Today Coloring, bonding and stitching velvet pile fabrics. Adding and removing color (discharge techniques) are discussed in detail with loads of illustrations.