The Beginner's Guide to Macramé

The Beginner’s Guide to Macramé: Easy techniques and 8 fun projects

Author: Isabella Strambio

In this complete course, popular macramé artist Isabella Strambio starts with the complete basics, covering everything you need to get going: discover the essential tools and materials, learn how to hold and tension your strings, and discover how to set up a good working space.

The 8 projects are carefully chosen by Isabella so that you can build up your confidence through practice. Each of the stunning projects will teach you new knots and techniques, and will gradually develop your skills as you work through the book.

Choose from 8 must-have contemporary projects:

• a stylish keychain (with gathering, lark's head and half square knots)
• a handy bottle holder (featuring an alternating square knot pattern)
• a stylish hat decoration (with a stylish wave knot)
• a stunning clutch bag (featuring double half hitch knots and decreasing square knots)
• a cute owl hanging decoration (with vertical lark's head knots)
• a statement lampshade (featuring berry knots)
• a gorgeous mini wreath (with waterfall knots)
• a contemporary wall hanging (featuring alternating half hitch knots).

The book also contains an inspiring 'Moving On' section, with advice on subjects including adding color, working in 3D, and adding lace detail. So embark on your macramé journey today, and have fun creating your own pieces of wall art and home décor items using simple macramé knots in natural materials.

This is the third title in the best-selling The Beginner's Guide series.

Isabella Strambio is a self-taught macramé and natural dye artist. She is half Italian and half Japanese and she grew up by the sea in Italy. At 18, she moved to the UK to learn English and study Interior Design. Isabella has always been attracted to design, hand-made products, natural materials and textures, and her passions are reflected in her work. She is also a big advocate of using recycled materials for her macramé work and food scraps for her natural dyeing. She started her blog, to document her personal journey to learn 12 new crafts in 12 months. In 2017, she took the leap and quit her career as an Interior Designer to work full-time on her small creative business.

She has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph, the UK TV series Kirstie's Handmade Christmas and regularly writes macramé tutorials for magazines like Mollie Makes, In the Moment, Hobbycrafts and Origin. In 2019, her Natural Dyed Japanese Apron was one of the finalists for the Etsy Design Award. She runs workshops, events and teambuilding classes in London and across the UK. She also teaches macramé and natural dyeing online for people who cannot attend her workshops.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Search Press (March 17, 2026)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1800923651
• ISBN-13: 9781800923652
• Dimensions: 8.13 x 0.36 x 10.25 inches