Julia Triston is a designer-maker and educator in stitched textiles and contemporary art and design techniques. She is the co-founder and co-director of STITCHBUSINESS, an active member of the prestigious Prism Textile Group and is Chair of Fusion. She has exhibited her quirky and distinctive artwork internationally. Rachel Lombard is an award-winning textile artist and designer. Rachel runs her own business creating functional, tactile and decorative artworks. She also runs a programme of talks and workshops and has written for Stitch, Classic Stitches and Flair magazines. Julia and Rachel are the co-authors of How to Be Creative in Textile Art (9781849940061), also published by Batsford.