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Penguin Threads - Classic Books with Embroidered Covers

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

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Take a look at these wonderful embroidered book covers from the Penguin Threads series.

Artists Jillian Tamaki and Rachell Sumpter sketched the designs and then hand embroidered the sample covers.  The finished book covers are sculpt embossed to give them texture. 

I want them all!  

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

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Take a look at the other Penguin Threads covers:

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, Cover by Rachell Sumpter

Emma by Jane Austen, Cover by Jillian Tamaki

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Cover by Jillian Tamaki

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Cover by Jillian Tamaki

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The Art of Manipulating Fabric by Colette Wolff

At the beginning of the year, I checked this book out from the library and it was so interesting I didn't want to give it back! 

Because I tend to move every 2-3 years, and books can get really heavy, I've learned to be picky about the books I buy.  If it is a reference book I might want to keep for many years, I pre-screen it by checking it out from the library first (if possible).  The Art of Manipulating Fabric is definitely one I am going to buy soon.

The book has so many different techniques for pleats, folds, tucks and other surface treatments.  I didn't get the chance to really go through it thoroughly, but I do remember it had lots of black and white photos showing the finished technique and plenty of text descriptions.

The two methods I did try out were shell tucks and pin tucks. The shell tucks I didn't quite get down, but pin tucks are easy. This book is what inspired me to make this pin tuck clutch: