Design Sourcebooks
   Includes image and design collections

Sheila Sturrock's concise handbook is the perfect guide to creating authentic Celtic designs, revealing a broad and inventive collection of styles and techniques. Her tried and tested methods are applied to over 100 designs, in which detailed templates are combined with easy-to-follow plotting instructions.

From simple spirals, the book gradually progresses to more challenging and elaborate patterns. In this way, once the basic principles of Celtic design have been mastered, you will quickly develop the confidence and the complete range of skills needed to create unique patterns of your own.

This book includes hundreds of textile images and the easy-to-use index allows you to source design elements with listings on various subjects such as animals, architectural features, landscapes, flowers and plants, gardens, mythical beasts and traditional motifs.

A beautifully-illustrated and photocopiable collection of exotic Persian design patterns and motifs. These designs can be used by craftspeople, artists, needleworkers, and those interested in creating their own original ideas and projects.