Dig into evolving  fiber traditions.

Read the owner's manuals and packaging for products you use to learn about potential health hazards and other important information. Google the manufacturers to read the great ideas they offer on their web sites. And above all, get the Dharma Trading Company catalog and read every single word.

• Altered Images: A Handbook for Fiber Artists by Donna Kallner
  
• The Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric by Holly Brackman
  
• Complex Cloth by Jane Dunnewold
  
• Three-Dimensional Embroidery by Janet Edmonds
  
• The Art of Construction: Projects & Principles for Beginning Engineers & Architects by Mario Salvadori
  
• Art Quilt Workbook: Exercises & Techniques to Ignite Your Creativity by Jane Davila & Elin Waterston
  
• The Quilter's Book Of Design by Ann Johnston
  
• The Embroiderer's Workbook; a basic embroidery course, designed to help embroiderers structure their approach to the craft by Jan Messent
  

• Cloth Paper Scissors
  
• Quilting Arts Magazine
  
• Fiberarts
  
• Bead & Button
  
• Belle Armoire: Art To Wear
  
• Somerset Studio
  
• Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot