Forage & Stitch

Techniques and projects for textiles that celebrate and use natural everyday objects. Step outside with Caroline Hyde-Brown and learn how to find natural materials to great beautiful fiber art. Suitable for all levels and abilities, find a wealth of instruction and inspiration on how to incorporate naturally foraged materials such as leaves, grasses, lichen and dried flowers into your artwork. Discover a range of textile techniques, to support and complement your natural materials design - hand and machine stitching, solar dyeing, felting, hapa-zome and more. Caroline has carefully created a small project, based on her own artworks, after each newly introduced method, so you can put your new skills into practice. >Interwoven with practical guidance and projects are Caroline's stunning gallery of works, offering inspirational examples of how to take your work farther, and simultaneously demonstrating nature's abundance and its variety.