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The festivities over Christmas include having your socks or stockings hole-free to hang up over the mantelpiece - make s...
18/12/2025

The festivities over Christmas include having your socks or stockings hole-free to hang up over the mantelpiece - make sure yours become December 24th-ready by putting these books on your wish list!

'Beyond Darning' and 'Darning Socks' by the queen of darning - Hikaru Noguchi are the only guides you will need to innovatively mending your socks. Pop one of these beautifully illustrated guides in your basket as you visit www.quickthornbooks.com

The elves in Katy's office will be hard at work packing and posting right up to the last UK mailing date!

Just a reminder from to spend some exhibition time with them and to visit textile artist ‘s work :-🌟 Stitching With C...
17/12/2025

Just a reminder from to spend some exhibition time with them and to visit textile artist ‘s work :-🌟 Stitching With Communities 🌟⁠
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Did you know that some of Lynn Setterington’s most impactful works involve hundreds of collaborators including our very own Speaking English groups at Oldham Library? 🌍💫⁠
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From grassroots community projects to collaborative quilt-making, Lynn’s work highlights the power of collective creativity in addressing social issues and preserving cultural histories.⁠
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World Wellbeing Map (2024) aims to raise awareness of rising sea temperatures. It was made by hand using waste materials from the construction industry. Come see it in person at the exhibition! 🧵✨⁠
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📅 Dates: Sat 8 Nov 2025 – Sat 7 March 2026⁠
📍 Location: Gallery Oldham⁠

Copies of her book can be purchased from the gallery or directly from us:
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'Earth Fire Iron - Alan Evans and the New Iron Age' was very busy sharing the wonderful exhibition of the same name orga...
15/12/2025

'Earth Fire Iron - Alan Evans and the New Iron Age' was very busy sharing the wonderful exhibition of the same name organised by the Museum in the Park recently.

🔥With contributions from leading voices in the artist blacksmith community, this book provides an overview from Evans’ roots in the Cotswold Arts and Crafts movement to exciting developments in the craft since 1980, as makers and educators stepped up to the challenges and positives of blacksmithing and began to engage in constructive thinking about ways of tackling environmental issues and climate change.

🔥This richly illustrated book includes an overview of the important and pioneering Artist Blacksmithing course at Hereford College of Arts and an introduction to issues around commissioning new work. Case studies by seven artist blacksmiths at different stages in their careers brings all these issues to life. Earth, Fire, Iron will inspire and assist both students and established makers and open everyone’s eyes to the potential of this elemental craft.

Head to our bio or our website to purchase a copy in time for Christmas.
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Grief is difficult - and it can be particularly tough during the festive period.'When Words are Not Enough' has been wri...
13/12/2025

Grief is difficult - and it can be particularly tough during the festive period.

'When Words are Not Enough' has been written for the bereaved, by the bereaved and offers a powerful, personal and essential insight into the creative potential of grief. Beautifully illustrated and easy-to-read, it is a book that everyone of us will need at some point in our lives.

You can also head over to the Good Grief Project's website where you can find out more about the charity that the book's authors founded and how to access their grief retreats and films.

Their latest substack essay on 'Living with grief over the festive holidays' is available now. Head to the The Good Grief Project bio or over their website to read. (www.thegoodgriefproject.co.uk)

09/12/2025

The aim of Quickthorn is to make intelligent craft books so makers get the kind of books they deserve.
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Pleased to share • Celia Pym is an artist darner. This new book is based on the exhibition commissioned by NOW Gallery,...
05/12/2025

Pleased to share • Celia Pym is an artist darner. This new book is based on the exhibition commissioned by NOW Gallery, Greenwich Socks: The Art of Care and Repair.
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SOCKS celebrates the everyday act of mending socks through darning. An illustrated account of what happens when you teach a whole primary school how to darn a sock. Central to the book is a vibrant, colourful library of 488 socks, each stitched and darned by the Surrey Square Primary School community in Southwark using industry ‘warehouse’ waste socks. Children, staff and families of the school, learnt and practised their darning and stitching skills on socks, during a series of 26 workshops facilitated by Pym in early 2024.
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The progression of the work from nursery to year 6 aged children to the headteacher, beautifully demonstrates the dexterity and creativity of the children and how that changes over time, highlighting the importance of practical education for cognitive development.
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SOCKS also includes Pym’s own work mending socks for friends and family. Celia is a prominent artist and teacher, exhibiting and teaching internationally and her London workshops sell out within minutes. Her previous book is On Mending: Stories of damage and repair.
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Please join us for the launch of SOCKS, Imaginative Mending by Celia Pym on Tuesday 9 December from 6-8pm.

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Hello frantic festive stocking-filling people! 🌟This is just a gentle nudge in case you want to be sure of a pre-christm...
05/12/2025

Hello frantic festive stocking-filling people! 🌟

This is just a gentle nudge in case you want to be sure of a pre-christmas book delivery! Please order from us in good time to meet the dates below👇🏽

🧝‍♂️Our postal elves will be packing books up until 23.12.25. *BUT* the last postal dates advised by Royal Mail for deliveries to arrive in time for Christmas are:

📍UK addresses: 16 December
📍Overseas addresses: 09 December

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🫶🏼We are darned happy to let you know that 'Beyond Darning' by Hikaru Noguchi has been reprinted! Copies are now availa...
03/12/2025

🫶🏼We are darned happy to let you know that 'Beyond Darning' by Hikaru Noguchi has been reprinted! Copies are now available to order from us to be posted out to you before Christmas.

⏰New stock has arrived in our warehouse and we can post to the UK or overseas. The last posting dates for Christmas delivery are:
UK - 16/12/25
O/S - 09/12/25

03/12/2025

We are so delighted that the Red Dress is receiving this sort of coverage as it continues its exhibition journey • “A dress featuring the work of 380 artists from 51 countries has earned a place in the Guinness Book of records as the most collaboratively embroidered textile artwork in the world. The Red Dress has travelled around the world and is now being featured at the National Trusts’ Killerton House in Devon.”

Copies of the book ( paperback and special edition hardback) are available directly from us:

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Full link is in our bio and here:

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/take-a-look-at-the-most-collaboratively-embroidered-textile-artwork-in-the-world/72vb8l7

💬• “Celia, Celia, Celia! We have so many super lovely things happening with 🎉I’ll start off by letting you know that w...
01/12/2025

💬• “Celia, Celia, Celia!

We have so many super lovely things happening with 🎉

I’ll start off by letting you know that we’ve got lots of stock in of her great new ‘Socks: Imaginative Mending’ and Celia was very kind and came by to sign all of our copies.

👉🏻Then, on January 31st, she’ll be teaching a sock mending workshop at Loop from 1:30-3:30. Booking for that is open now. 🤗( head to )

👉🏻Later that same day, Celia will be hosting a fabulous Sock Salon. She’ll be signing books, doing a meet + greet, and they’ll be loads of samples for you to try out mending with the help of Celia and her assistant. If you’d like to bring your own sock to mend, that is fine too.

⏰That’s from 4:30-6:30 and is free and open to all. Everyone is welcome and there is no need to book. Please join us!

🧦And, of course, all the techniques for sock darning and mending can easily be applied to other things as well.

🎉Lastly, we’ve scheduled more of our usual all day mending workshops with Celia for the New Year. The workshop dates listed so far are: March 31st and May 9th and can be booked now! (Head to to book )

🧦Love the idea of the Sock Salon and we both hope you can swing by and say hello. 🪡 “

01/12/2025

The aim of Quickthorn is to make intelligent craft books so makers get the kind of books they deserve.

🌟Do join us on Monday 1 December for the last in the 2025 season of repair circles! 7-9pm at the Trinity Hub🌟Socks with ...
29/11/2025

🌟Do join us on Monday 1 December for the last in the 2025 season of repair circles! 7-9pm at the Trinity Hub🌟

Socks with holes? Buy a copy of our latest book - ‘Darning Socks - innovative repair techniques’ and bring your favourite pair back to life!

Katy Bevan and Kat Child are the stitching gurus at this community mending and darning circle that meets on the first Monday evening of each month.

🧵 Meet• Other members of Stroud textile community
🧵Make• New Contacts, share skills and start new projects
🧵 Mend• Bring a beloved piece of clothing to mend

🧵 Bring clothes to mend with your sewing bits and bobs if you have them. Aside from circle tutors Katy and Kat, there is always a group of people on hand to offer guidance and advice and there is a provision of resources: needles, yarn, thread and fabric scraps to help you mend your loved items. No experience necessary. The workshop is still priced at £7 per session.

👉 Tea and coffees are available, feel free to bring drinks and/or nibbles to share…

👉 Booking link in bio above in our linktree bio,
or via Trinity Rooms Community Hub Trinity Rooms Community Hub

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