Cas Holmes is one of the UK's most renowned textile artists. She exhibits widely and runs courses at West Dean College in West Sussex. She is the author of Textile Landscape, Stitch Stories, The Found Object in Textile Art, Embroidering the Everyday and Connected Cloth, also published by Batsford. She has also written for magazines and websites including Embroidery, The Quilter and TextileArtist and for the Festival of Quilts. She lives in Maidstone, Kent.
Deena Beverley is a textile artist, author of several craft books and a regular contributor to Embroidery magazine. Her award-winning work has been widely exhibited internationally and she also talked about embroidery on BBC Radio 4's 'Woman's Hour'. She is based in Wiltshire.
