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.

She left her hometown in the fertile delta when it was still the t-shirt-making capital of the world for design school in ... personal and lushly photographed Embroidery: Threads and Stories ...

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 ...

“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.