Elinor Kapp
••• she who embroiders the truth •••

Elinor is an eminent psychotherapist and psychiatrist, who has also taken a degree in Embroidered Textiles with OPUS School of Textile Arts, UK.

She is an inventive textile artist, poet and storyteller with a keen sense of humour and a life-long love of the English language.

Elinor's latest book, Rigmaroles & Ragamuffins, is now available.


See larger image 		When we unpick the English language, it is quite startling to find how many of our common words, sayings, figures of speech, folklore, myths, and stories come from thread and all the fascinating processes it had to go through to create textiles.
This book offers a collection of textile-related words and phrases that have entered our everyday consciousness through spoken and written English. Many of them – such as ‘Following a thread’ or ‘Spinning a yarn’ – are direct figures of speech. Others, such as LAP, FILE and RIGMAROLE, have lost their craft connections and acquired totally new meanings. Words are delightfully wayward things and sometimes go off in surprising directions.

Rigmaroles & Ragamuffins costs just £9.99 + £2.50 UK P&P from Word4Word, or direct from the author by email. It makes a wonderful gift for all the textile enthusiasts among your friends and relatives, as well as those who love words and stories.