books tagged “craft”

books tagged “craft”


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  • Townswick, Jane: Quiltmaking Tips and Techniques: Over 1,000 Creative Ideas to Make Your Quiltmaking Quicker, Easier and a Lot More Fun
  • Rosengarten, Dale: Row upon Row: Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry
  • Freyer, Bryna M.: Royal Benin Art: In the Collection of the National Museum of African Art
  • Shibori: The Inventive Art of Japanese Shaped Resist Dyeing Tradition Techniques Innovation
    by Yoshiko Wada, Rice, Mary Kellogg and Barton, Jane, Mary Kellogg Rice, Jane Barton
    ISBN 0870115596 (0-87011-559-6)
    Hardcover, Kodansha Amer Inc

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    This text examines the art of Japanese shaped resist-dyeing. [via]

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  • Cunningham, Scott: Spell Crafts: Creating Magical Objects
    Spell Crafts: Creating Magical Objects
    by Scott Cunningham, David Harrington
    ISBN 0875421857 (0-87542-185-7)
    Softcover, Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd

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  • McQuaid, Matilda: Structure and Surface: Contemporary Japanese Textiles
  • Temari: How to Make Japanese Thread Balls
    by Diana Vandervoort
    ISBN 087040881X (0-87040-881-X)
    Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc

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    Number one bestselling Temari beginner instruction book in English reveals Japan's superb tradition of stitchery on a ball. Inexpensive, easy-to-find materials produce exquisite patterns. An endless spectrum of colors and designs allow limitless possibilities. It is Elegantly Simple and Simply Elegant. [via]

  • Bawden, Juliet: To Dye for: The Rit Book of Creative Dyeing Projects
  • Leinhauser, Jean: The Ultimate Book of Baby Afghans
  • American School of Needlework: The Ultimate Ripple Afghan Book: 25 Designs to Knit & Crochet
  • Flexner, Bob: Understanding Wood Finishing: How To Select And Apply The Right Finish
  • The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty
    by Bernard Leach, Soetsu Yanagi
    ISBN 0870119486 (0-87011-948-6)
    Softcover, Kodansha Amer Inc

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    This book challenges the conventional ideas of art and beauty. What is the value of things made by an anonymous craftsman working in a set tradition for a lifetime? What is the value of handwork? Why should even the roughly lacquered rice bowl of a Japanese farmer be thought beautiful? The late Soetsu Yanagi was the first to fully explore the traditional Japanese appreciation for "objects born, not made."

    Mr. Yanagi sees folk art as a manifestation of the essential world from which art, philosophy, and religion arise and in which the barriers between them disappear. The implications of the author's ideas are both far-reaching and practical.

    Soetsu Yanagi is often mentioned in books on Japanese art, but this is the first translation in any Western language of a selection of his major writings. The late Bernard Leach, renowned British potter and friend of Mr. Yanagi for fifty years, has clearly transmitted the insights of one of Japan's most important thinkers. The seventy-six plates illustrate objects that underscore the universality of his concepts. The author's profound view of the creative process and his plea for a new artistic freedom within tradition are especially timely now when the importance of craft and the handmade object is being rediscovered. [via]

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    Upholstery Basics
    ISBN 0865733198 (0-86573-319-8)
    Softcover, Quayside Pub Group

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  • Goddard, Wayne: Wayne Goddard's $50 Knife Shop
  • Buckley, Christopher: What Will Suffice : Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry
  • Bennett, Noel: Working With the Wool: How to Weave a Navajo Rug
  • Writing down the Bones : Freeing the Writer Within
    by Natalie Goldberg, Robert M. Pirsig
    ISBN 0877733759 (0-87773-375-9)
    Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated

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    Wherein we discover that many of the "rules" for good writing and good sex are the same: Keep your hand moving, lose control, and don't think. Goldberg brings a touch of both Zen and well... *eroticism* to her writing practice, the latter in exercises and anecdotes designed to ease you into your body, your whole spirit, while you create, the former in being where you are, working with what you have, and writing from the moment. [via]