Valerie Campbell-Harding

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Valerie Campbell-Harding (1932-2006) was an experimental textile designer and author of 24 books<http://www.librarything.com/author/campbellhardingvaler/>. She was born in Canada in 1932 and died in England in 2006. She founded the Computer Textile Design Group in 1996 <http://www.ctdg.co.uk/mag_archive/nl59/val_view.htm/>, a group whose focus was the application of computer technologies to textiles. Cambell-Harding was also editor and frequent contributor to the Design IT magazine.

List of Works

Books

Textures in embroidery, 1977
Patchwork: no.1, 1978
Faces and Figures in Embroidery, 1979
Patchwork: no.2, 1981
Strip Patchwork, 1983
Every Kind of Patchwork, 1984
Flowers and Plants in Embroidery, 1987
Weaving with ribbon, 1987
Machine embroidery : stitch techniques, (co-authored by Pamella Watts) 1989
Fabric painting for embroidery, 1990
Bead Embroidery (co-authored by Pamella Watts), 1993
Starting to Stitch Creatively, 1994
Goldwork, (co-authored by Jane Lemon and Kit Pyman) 1995
Textile Artistry, 1996
Machine Embroidery, 1997
Machine Embroidery: Stitched Patterns, 1997
Beaded tassels, braids & fringes, 1999
Layers of Stitch , 2001
Celtic Embroidery, 2002
Celtic Inspirations for Machine Embroiderers (co-authored by Maggie Grey), 2003
Edges And Finishes In Machine Embroidery, 2004
Stitch, Dissolve, Distort with Machine Embroidery, (completed by Maggie Grey after Campbell-Harding's death), 2007