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Eiderdown Books
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Female founded indie publishing house. Publishing books about women artists. Modern Women Artists series and more. Find our books in museums, galleries and the best indie bookshops ✨ Up next: Ithell Colquhoun by Emma Sharples 💙📚 www.eiderdownbooks.com
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Eiderdown Books @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social · Nov 16
Hello! 👋 We're an indie publishing house making books about women artists. Here's our series of pocket hardbacks on some brilliant artists you should know. Follow along for latest news and upcoming releases 📚
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Fabulous evening. First up a visit to the College of Psychic Studies to hear a talk about the art and life of Ithell Colquhoun with a book launch by @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social

Can’t wait for the Tate exhibition later this year 🙃

#surrealism #occultart 🖤
January 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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..and we have a brilliant launch event planned in London - please do come along and join us if you can
Poster for the book launch of Ithell Colquhoun by Emma Sharples
January 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Lovely news this morning that our latest book is on track and finishing on the bindery and due into the warehouse next week...
January 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The kind of books you want to find under the tree on Christmas morning 🥰
A photograph of a group of colourful art books displayed on a green and cream armchair with tapestry cushions in front of a Christmas tree decorated with with fairy lights, good bows, red baubles in a green living room
December 3, 2024 at 11:37 AM
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Short medical interlude over. Now back to the business of book making!
December 3, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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I spent the day with Lucy Haworth‘s depicton of Marlow Moss’ life and work - and it‘s so powerful and inspiring. A wonderful small book by @eiderdownbooks.bsky.social about a great artist!

Thanks for sending it to me, @spiral-tat.bsky.social & @miketyl.bsky.social!
The cover of the book in front of the Alster lake in Hamburg - in between a single seagull.
November 23, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Dame Elisabeth Frink, The Three Riders, 1972
https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1118377
Presented by Curwen Studio through the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
November 23, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Christmas email written and sent ✔️
Book files off to be indexed ✔️ Now time to make dinner and lay the fire 🔥
A flat-lay photograph of the Modern Women Artists series of books displayed in a circle surrounding a lit-up star in the centre of the image. The background shows Christmas wrapping paper with holly, for branches. There is a Christmas cracker with the number 12 in the top right of the image.
November 22, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Ooh, exciting news! We've just had confirmation of the *perfect* venue to launch our next book on artist and occultist Ithell Colquhoun in January...
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November 22, 2024 at 3:00 PM
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Gift cards sussed ✔️ Newsletter going out shortly

Sign up if you'd like to hear more from us and buy some lovely art books for Christmas 💙📚 🎄

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Eiderdown Books: Books about Women Artists
Books about Women Artists, written by women authors
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November 22, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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The most beautiful long walk this morning, swiftly followed by a visual migraine 🙄 Now battling with how to make a gift card on our website. Do people still buy gift cards for books at Christmas?
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November 22, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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There is a free event in Edinburgh this afternoon at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust - an afternoon tea and activities to celebrate the book in #ScottishBookWeek. Wish I was in Edinburgh so I could go along
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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Children's Book Celebration
Join us for an afternoon of tea and activities to celebrate our recently published children's book
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November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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Meet the artist behind the cover of this year’s Booker Prize winner 👀 https://buff.ly/3CErVl5
November 21, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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This exhibition looks excellent! Exciting to read that a catalogue raisonné for Fell is coming soon too
artukdotorg.bsky.social Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · Nov 21
Sheila Fell: Cumberland on Canvas opens this weekend at Tullie in Carlisle 🤩

Read more about the artist in this new story 👉 artuk.org/discover/sto...

'Harbour, Maryport, Cumbria' by Sheila Mary Fell (1931–1979) © the artist's estate. 📷 Durham County Council
Harbour view painting in brown tones
November 21, 2024 at 11:03 AM
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Good morning! 👋 Home from our crisp and frosty walk and ready for a day of ticking things off our publishing to-do list ✔️
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November 21, 2024 at 9:49 AM
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Still thinking about this mermaid studio prop from the Paula Rego and Goya exhibition at the Holburne

#PaulaRego #Mermaids
A photograph of a flying Mermaid figure from the studio of Paula Rego, currently on display at the Holburne museum in Bath. The female figure is suspended from the ceiling on a blue circular frame. She is bald with a few strands of hair, and an old face, black feathery wings and stares down intently at the viewer A photograph of the Mermaids prop from the studio of Paula Rego currently on display at the Holburne Museum in Bath. It shows three female mermaids with black wings and fish tails suspended from a blue circular frame hanging from the ceiling.
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 PM
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Which other artists do you think we should add to our Modern Women Artists series? Here's who we have so:

Sylvia Pankhurst
Frances Hodgkins
Marlow Moss
Laura Knight
Lee Miller
Eileen Agar
Nina Hamnett
Eileen Mayo
Lucie Rie
Tirzah Garwood
Mabel Nicholson
Ithell Colquhoun

All ideas welcome! 💙📚
A bookshelf showing the colourful spines of the Modern Women Artists series between lots of other books
November 20, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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In 1908, aged 50, Olivia Tonge, freed of family ties, adventurously journeyed to India for an extended period, to paint. Her intricate, small-scale works covered both nature & cultural artifacts, & her informative annotations are well worth examining
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Painted images of frogs, insects birds and foliage, with hand-written inscriptions
November 20, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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1k followers! 🥳 It's very nice to meet you all 👋
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November 19, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Is there anything better than a good book by the fire on a cold winter's eve?
A photo of a fireside scene in a green living room at night, with a lit wood burning fire, fireplace with lit candles, china dogs and ornaments on top, and a framed painting of a landscape above. In the foreground, an unopened book - The Living Stones by Ithell Colquhoun
November 19, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Getting ever closer to sending our next book off to print

That means pre-orders will be opening on our website very soon...

(Must get on and make a product page for it!)

💙📚
#IndePublishing
#IthellColquhoun #WomenArtists
#ComingSoon
#NonFiction
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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A lovely photograph of Judith Kerr and a Tiger who has come to Tea. (Photographer unknown to me, but it is a terrific photograph, well done! 🐯)
A photograph of the author & illustrator Judith Kerr holding a big white cat. She’s sitting at a table in her kitchen, she’s got a teapot with a tiger on it, cups and saucers and a plate of biscuits. Her kitchen isn’t modern but it does look lovely, old wallpaper and a shelf with old jars on it. A clock on the wall. A bright pink container of washing conditioner on top of a washing machine in the corner. Sunlight illuminates the scene, the cat and Judith look happy, of course they are…the tiger has come to tea.
November 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
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A show of photographs and Pop art-inspired prints by Corita Kent displays the artist’s fun side but plays down her political fervour, writes Catherine Bennett
Corita Kent, the Pop art nun | Apollo Magazine
A show of Kent’s photographs and Pop art-inspired prints in Paris displays the artist’s fun side but plays down her political fervour
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November 17, 2024 at 10:30 PM
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If we could get to Leeds on Thursday, this is where we would be. Sounds like a brilliant exhibition
hmileeds.bsky.social Henry Moore Institute @hmileeds.bsky.social · Nov 15
Join us to celebrate 100 years of Surrealism at the opening party for our new exhibitions The Traumatic Surreal and John Hoyland: Imaginary Beings on Thurs 21 Nov 2024, 6–8pm, all welcome, free entry.
No need to book but welcome to help us plan the event: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-trauma...
Birgit Jürgenssen, Ohne Titel (Hund) / Untitled (Dog) 1972 © Birgit Jürgenssen, Estate Birgit Jürgenssen / Bildrecht Vienna, 2024 / DACS 2024; Courtesy Galerie Hubert Winter. Photo: Simon Veres
November 18, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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Do we need a publishers and their dogs starter pack?
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November 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM