Designer Tomáš Kompaník travelled around Slovakia to collect stories and designs for his second book. “It was unacceptable for neighbours in a settlement to have two identical types of embroidery.

The traditional embroidery culture inspired Liu Huizi, a teacher of Visual Communication from Southwest Minzu University, for the birth of this Book Plan. The “Book Plan” which combines the ...

“Sashiko” is an unusual title not only in its subject—when did you last see a children’s book about embroidery?—but also in its beauty.

transforming her into “America’s first lady of stitchery” as she built a multimillion-dollar embroidery empire through her needlework designs, television shows, books and stores. The volume ...