Both beginners and experienced weavers will value its thriftiness and versatility.

    Groundbreaking in concept and challenging in content, it presents sixty-five ingenious projects by respected masters working in a variety of themes and origami genres. From Toshikazu Kawasaki's Unique Iso-area Folding Method to David Briil's remarkable "bottle" to Peter Engel's playful "kangaroo," the featured designs have been carefully chosen to test the refined sensibilities and stimulate the artistic appetites of the origami devotee. If you are an accomplished paperfolder you will be inspired by the beauty and logic of the geometric form as discovered in such designs as Hourglass, Rotating Tetrahedon, Brain Ticklers, and Extraterrestrial Being. You will delight in the wit and poetry of representational origami as you create delicate and winsome patterns for Kitten, Goose, Pelican, Giraffe, Camellia, Spiral Snail Shell, Ground Beetle, Pine Cone, Fox, and many more designs. What's more, you will find the key to successfully mastering numerous intricate techniques and complex paper fold...with ease! This is no ordinary origami workbook. Complicated processes are made highly accessible-yet remain daring-through clear, concise instructions and highly detailed diagrams. One of the unexpected joys of the book is that its mentally invigorating text will serve as an ongoing inspiration to novel approaches and new origami adventures - even after you have completed a project.

    A Basic Stitch Guide and clear, easy-to-follow instructions are included.

    Today, craftworkers creating textiles and other products make use of many of these same resources and methods. Thoroughly researched and charmingly written, this practical guide by a veteran botanist and horticulturist provides weavers and gardeners alike with a wealth of information on growing plants for use in weaving and dyeing projects. Beginning with the history and uses of plant fibers, A Weaver's Garden then offers valuable hints on dyeing fibers and fabrics and how to use soap plants for cleaning textiles. Readers will also find expert advice on fragrant plants for scenting and protecting textiles, what plant materials to use as tools, how to plan and create a garden containing cotton, flax, indigo, madder, fuller's teasel, woad, and many other useful plants; and much more. A glossary, pronunciation guide, and an abundance of illustrations complete this informative and inspiring volume.

    Kaffe's samples come from the natural world - the patterned markings of frogs, butterflies, flowers, shells and stones - the manmade markings of primitive cultures and the world of 20th-century art.

    Use them to put the perfect finishing touch on any woven, knitted, sewn, or other handcrafted project—including clothing and household textiles. Each band and border comes complete with a photo of the stitch and reader-friendly instructions; diagrams display each stitch in the band or border, as well as its placement, so you can understand the entire design at a glance. A pictoral index features every pattern in its entirety, and beginners who need a little help with their stitches will appreciate the illustrated directions for all the basics.A Selection of the Crafter’s Choice Book Club.

    From a get well-card with a pop-up nose, through your very own pop-up zoo, here are dozens are amazing ideas for three-dimensional fun.

    With designs, hints, and techniques from 50 experienced spinners and knitters, this guide offers instructions for handspun yarn and commercial substitutes.

    A unique collection of origami facts, anecdotes, and techniques.Over 300 step-by-step diagrams, from simple and easy origami to more complex projects, with easy-to-follow instructions on how to make professional looking objects.An essential source book for all origami and papercraft enthusiasts--whatever their age or level of skill.

    Gathers Christmas stories, essays, poems, paintings, and recipes, and looks at Christmas cards, advertising, ornaments, trees, presidential Christmases, and Santa Claus.

    

    Here she has given us another excellently illustrated and clearly written practical handbook for spinners who wish to improve their skills and widen their knowledge of the craft.There is guidance for those who sometimes have difficulty in deciding how to use their yarn and for those who would enjoy being able to plan and spin yarn which is exactly what is required for any knitting or crochet pattern or some weaving project.Described in detail is how to make yarns of many kinds from thick, soft ones to fine gossamer, from simple yarns to the Fancy Fashion ones, expensive to buy but simple to make when you have directions as clear and explicit as those in this book which is full of information to enhance your spinning enjoyment, spurring you on to create and use your own unique yarns.

    Whether for play or display, they will become keepsake dolls that are sure to be cherished. Line, full-color, and two-color illustrations.

    100 full-color photographs and 350 full-color illustrations.

    Fashionable during the first half of the twentieth century, these popular designs ranged from the simple, stylized motifs found in edgings and tablecloths to superb bouquets of three-dimensional blossoms used in bedspreads, placemats, and doilies.With the patterns in this splendid collection, crocheters can again re-create many of the same eye-catching designs that were once presented in now-rare thread-company instruction booklets of the 1940s and '50s. Included here are designs for a delicate three-piece filet crochet vanity set displaying the timeless beauty of the daffodil; exquisite edgings depicting violets, fuchsias, and begonias; a lovely bedspread titled Friendship Garden; a Rose O' Summer doily centerpiece; a breathtaking doily set titled Forget-Me-Not Swirl; a variety of colorful pansy motifs incorporated in a bedspread, refreshment set, and two different doilies; a lacy lily-of-the-valley doily; and two dozen other irresistible designs.Easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and 36 finely detailed photographs enable crocheters at all levels to create a treasure chest of stunning, heirloom-quality items. In addition, a brief introduction provides helpful hints on how to care for completed projects through proper washing and blocking.

    The beautifully illustrated Atlas of Facial Expression expands upon the material in Peck's earlier book to provide a detailed guide to the complexities of facial expression. Illustrated with fifty pages of drawings depicting musculature and facial expressions and sixteen pages of photographs of heads sculptured in clay, the book analyzes facial behavior, ranging from the sardonic smile to the lustful leer, from day-dreaming to screaming, from nausea to cold sweat, and more. Artists, art students, actors, writers, and anyone else interested in the art of relating emotion to the physiology of the face will find this volume indispensable.

    How to enhance serged seams with stitch length and contrasting thread, and how to adjust the tension for decorative edges, heavy threads, yarns, and ribbons.

    

    A Signature in Time presents a gallery of the finest sampler designs selected from the works of The Vanessa-Ann Collection's designers. Their interpretations of the familiar components borders and alphabets, designs and sayings have produced fresh, expertly styled designs. They have used the full variety of fabrics and the spectrum of floss colours available today. In these thirty-four pieces are numerous techniques and detailed instructions to guide you through the creation of each sampler. As in traditional samplers, cross-stitch is the method used most often, but you will also find samples of beadwork, candlewicking, ribbon work, chicken-scratc, and embroidery.Choose from samplers for birth announcements, wedding records, housewarmings, or personalized gifts for relatives and friends. One sampler integrates the names of several generations of one family into a family tree. Another project is a replica of a nineteenth-century alphabet sampler.The rich, warm, deep colours of the vegetable still-life truly showcase a stitcher's skills. Three unique Christmas designs are too lovely to put away at season's end!The photographs, set in delicate, hand-drawn pen-and-ink borders, will entice you with the beauty of the fabrics and flosses. This book is certain to be one of the best collections of samplers available to the contemportary needleworker. A Signature in TIme is a celebration of art, literature, and history through needlework.

    Learn how to grow naturally better tasting fruits and vegetables and cultivate healthy plants in healthy soil.

    Leaf through and you will quickly discover the eye-catching appeal of each typeface: the flowing elegance of Liberty; the sturdy formality of Piranesi Bold Italic; the airy, Art Deco flair of Hannover; the monogram-like quality of Juliet; the dazzle of Boulevard Script; the classical appeal of Virginia Antique. These beautiful designs, and scores more, are reproduced in complete uppercase alphabets. Ninety-two of them include lowercase alphabets as well, and eighty-nine include numerals.In all, Script and Cursive Alphabets is an invaluable resource of typefaces that will lend a distinctive character and mood to your message. Here in this rich collection of fonts, from Back Script and Virtuoso Bold to Khayyam and Poppl Exquisit, you'll find the letter-perfect way to say it.

    This book describes the customs and recipes of each festival and accompanies these with samples of related craftwork, pressed flowers, old photographs, flower paintings and charming, fresh drawings and illustrations, all arranged in a scrapbook fashion. "Cattern cakes and lace" may appeal to anyone interested in traditional festivals, and the food, folklore and crafts associated with them.

    Valuable tips on drawing styles and techniques make these best-sellers favorites with both aspiring artists and kids who just want to have fun.

    

    M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf.

    This volume is a complete manual on the technique of writing with the pointed pen in roundhand, which is the American version of copperplate. You'll find detailed step-by-step instructions for executing the straight stroke, variations on the straight stroke (heavy strokes, hairline), curved stroke, push stroke, shading, ligatures, and other components of the style. Mastery of these strokes will in turn enable you to form lowercase letters and variations, capitals, alternate forms of capitals, numerals, and more. The author has provided numerous sample letters in both upper and lower case, alphabet sentences, and two short compositions for use in learning to draw the letters properly. Also included are helpful suggestions on selection and care of a calligrapher's tools: inks, nibs, paper—even how to make your own pens. A model book as well as an instruction book, The Technique of Copperplate Calligraphy is completely written in roundhand. By carefully studying its elegant script and practicing the formation of letters according to the author's expert advice, even beginning calligraphers can achieve mastery of the influential and distinctive copperplate style.