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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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..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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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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First up, getting this little beauty off to the printers
Colour proofs from the forthcoming Ithell Colquhoun book showing the book jacket, images of the artists work and colour bars on the sheets of paper spread out on a table
December 3, 2024 at 8:40 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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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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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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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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Ooh yes! Although I have now been joined by her royal fluffiness, so I feel I gain another point
November 19, 2024 at 9:19 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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Do we need a publishers and their dogs starter pack?
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November 18, 2024 at 4:27 PM
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Well that was fun! Love love loved that exhibition. Get yourself to Bath to see the Rego & Goya exhibition if you can - what a great pairing. Particularly enjoyed seeing Rego's studio props and sculptures
Paula Rego's Mother's and Daughters, pen, ink and watercolour on paper Paula Rego's sculpture Pride (2019) - a lifesize dummy of a woman in eighteenth century dress and hairstyle - in the galleries at the Holburne museum with a large traditional eighteenth century oil on canvas portrait of a man in a gilt frame in the background Goya's etching of Unhappy Mother (1810-15/20) etching and acquatint depicting a woman being carried away by three men and a child crying
November 18, 2024 at 12:49 PM
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Good morning! From the top of our hill above the clouds. Looks like another Bluesky kind of a day 💙
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November 18, 2024 at 8:31 AM
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Everyone has at least four books on the go at any one time, right? 💙📚 #CurrentlyReading #ArtBooks #NonFiction
Stack of four books about Ithell Colquhoun, Laura Ford, Barbara Jones and Paula Rego on a wooden table top
November 17, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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Did we mention we made a book about her...? 💙📚
November 17, 2024 at 11:26 AM
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Here's our little book on Frances Hodgkins alongside the Penguin Modern Painters book about her from 1943

The Penguin series was part of the inspiration for our Modern Women Artists series (Hodgkins was the only female artist included in the Penguin collection) 📚💙
November 17, 2024 at 10:58 AM
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That feeling when you're an indie press and Jeannette Winterson writes an introduction for one of your books on portraiture and the paintings of Susanne du Toit (including one of @pascalepetit.bsky.social)
November 16, 2024 at 2:28 PM
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Up next: Ithell Colquhoun by Emma Sharples (publishes January 2025)
November 16, 2024 at 10:29 AM
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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 📚
November 16, 2024 at 10:07 AM