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💃🏽The Red Dress is on tour again, this time to 'World Textile Day' in Lewes on 27 June. We will be offering a discount ...
15/06/2026

💃🏽The Red Dress is on tour again, this time to 'World Textile Day' in Lewes on 27 June. We will be offering a discount code for visitors to the exhibition - so keep in touch to find out more! You can sign up to our newsletter to receive all of our offers, workshops and events too. Just head to our website....

Apart from seeing the dress there will be fabulous stalls selling textiles from around the world. Kirstie Macleod, the Red Dress creator + Quickthorn author will be running a workshop on the same day (SOLD OUT).

Exhibition - Free

When: 27 June 2026
Where: Southover Church BN7 1JA
Time: 10am-4pm

Buy The Red Dress - Conversations in Stitch by Kirstie Macleod and Emma Bovill directly from us in either paperback or hardbacked format.
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One of our most bought books for a reason. 📖🪡Beyond Darning by Hikaru Noguchi continues to fly off the shelves, and revi...
11/06/2026

One of our most bought books for a reason. 📖

🪡Beyond Darning by Hikaru Noguchi continues to fly off the shelves, and reviews like this say it all. With beautiful imagery, generous instruction, and a message that feels especially timely, this is a book that speaks to so much of what matters now: repairing what we already own, keeping clothes in circulation for longer, and finding quiet satisfaction in slow, creative making.

It is exactly the kind of book we are proud to publish at Quickthorn. 🤩

Thank you for your book reviews - they really matter. ❤

This week is Independent Bookshop Week (13-20 June) and we are proud to stand behind every indie bookshop stocking our t...
09/06/2026

This week is Independent Bookshop Week (13-20 June) and we are proud to stand behind every indie bookshop stocking our titles. As a small, independent publisher, we know that indie bookshops and indie publishers are cut from the same cloth: a belief that books matter, that the hands that make and mend and create deserve to be celebrated, and that slow, considered choices are worth making.

If you love what we publish, chances are you'll love your local indie bookshop too. Pop in this week, browse the shelves, and pick up something made with care.

Find your nearest indie bookshop at booksaremybag.com

09/06/2026

What Street Creativity can teach us....

John Ingledew - Visiting Professor, author of 'How to Have Great Ideas', photographer, printmaker, collagist - believes the most creative people in the world aren't in studios or boardrooms. They're fixing things wherever they are, with whatever happens to be in their pocket.

INSPIRED! The Joy of Street Creativity (Coming from Quickthorn this November 2026) brings together over a thousand of these inventive acts, collected across twenty years. Part visual feast, part manifesto his work celebrates raw, untrained, zero-budget problem-solving and argues that this kind of resourcefulness, initiative and flexible thinking should be valued far more widely than it is.

👀Witty, surprising, and genuinely eye-opening. This new book is one for makers, designers, thinkers - and anyone who has ever quietly marvelled at someone else's brilliant fix.

Read more via our website blog: https://quickthornbooks.com/blogs/news/inspired-the-joy-of-street-creativity

Available to pre-order soon...

📖 £25.00 | November 2026 | quickthornbooks.com
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06/06/2026

She’s on her travels once more….
Reposting this lovely intro to the Australian panel from: • “In 2018, British artist Kirstie Macleod invited Brisbane’s Allthreads Embroidery community to create the Australian panel for The Red Dress. 24 embroiderers created an intricate panel inspired by Australia’s unique flora and fauna.

Join MoB Assistant Curator Gabrielle as she takes a closer look at the materials and techniques behind the design.

✨ The Red Dress at Museum of Brisbane
🗓 25 July – 13 September 2026

Learn more 👉 link in bio

Presented by Museum of Brisbane and Warwick Art Gallery with support from Allthreads Embroidery, Queensland Women’s Historical Association, Queensland Embroidery Guild, NWCQ and private donors. Project supported by the Queensland Government.
The Red Dress project is supported by charities, social enterprises, and funding bodies, including the British Council Dubai, Arts Council England, and others.”

🎥 MoB

The Red Dress is on the move again! 🌍This remarkable piece of travelling textile art has just visited Amersfoort in the ...
02/06/2026

The Red Dress is on the move again! 🌍

This remarkable piece of travelling textile art has just visited Amersfoort in the Netherlands, and after a brief return to the UK, she heads to Australia for July through September. 💃🏾

Follow her journey and find out where you can catch the project near you: https://quickthornbooks.com/blogs/news/quickthorn-abroad

And the good news for collectors and admirers -- our hardback and paperback editions telling the story of the Red Dress are back in stock! Pick up a copy directly from Quickthorn, at your AUS or USA bookshops via our distributors, or at participating exhibition centres. In the US we're stocked now by Ingrams, which means bookstores will have no problem ordering directly, which makes savings for you on the postage 😊.


The Red Dress Woodslane PTY LTD Warwick Art Gallery IngramSpark Distributors

www.quickthornbooks.com

🌟Farewell holes!! Hikaru Noguchi's latest book, 'Darning Socks' has captured reader's hearts — it's a practical guide to...
30/05/2026

🌟Farewell holes!! Hikaru Noguchi's latest book, 'Darning Socks' has captured reader's hearts — it's a practical guide to extending the life of your favourite pairs and mastering the art of visible mending.

Right now, while experiencing the heatwave we think that it could be the perfect time to take your socks right off and to get those holes under control. It is still after all! 🪡

🧦Whether you're new to darning or refining your technique, it's the perfect companion for anyone committed to sustainable living and reducing textile waste. In Japan socks have more prominence, since it's customary to remove shoes indoors, maybe that's why she has made the everyday so beautiful.

📥If you are a subscriber to our newsletter you'll have a 10% off voucher to use this month. Head to www.quickthornbooks.com to order from us directly.

27/05/2026

Judith is joining Rachel Podger and Jennie Muskett this summer at Hawkwood College for a unique residential on string musicianship and body awareness.

Drawing on her work as the author of 'Finding Quiet Strength', described as a 'personal survival kit', Judith brings a thoughtful, grounded approach to resilience, creativity and wellbeing for performers.

28 June to 1 July
Hawkwood College, Stroud

Find out more and book: https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programmes/programme/29021-string-musicianship-and-body-awareness

'Finding Quiet Strength' is available in hardback and ebook via Quickthorn.
Rachel Podger Jennie Muskett

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