Crafts & Hobbies
Discover a wide selection of craft and hobby books, from crochet and origami to embroidery and cross stitch. Find the best-selling books on crafts and hobbies for beginners, all available at our online bookstore.
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Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded QuiltingMarseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development of broderie de Marseille needlework. During the seventeenth century these supple, all-white corded and quilted furnishings--from bedcovers to quilted bodices and caps--grew...
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The History of the Christmas Figural Light BulbThis new book by Robert Iwamasa and Patrick Fay is a companion guide to the earlier book Antique Christmas Figural Light Bulbs by Robert Iwamasa. This book records the history of the Christmas figural light bulb through a study of the construction of surviving...
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Bead Flora: The Revival of French Beaded FlowersSomething as simple as just seed beads and wire can be transformed into flowers. Learn the old-world art of French beaded flowers with revitalized techniques and patterns from a master designer.Foreword by author Ragnar Levi"Welcome to Fen Li's dazzling world of everlasting flowers What...
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The Judith Blacklock's Encyclopedia of Flower DesignA 'how to' manual for those interested in flowers and floral art. Illustrated with over 500 colour photographs and 200 line drawings, this book shows you ways to arrange flowers in a vase successfully; gives you advice and inspiration on wedding flowers; and explains...
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New Wood Puzzle Designs: A Guide to the Construction of Both New and Historic PuzzlesWooden puzzles are fun to solve, but with this guide to the almost perfectly square sticks, rings, disks, and other shapes that they require, they are even more fun to make. Twelve puzzles of four different, basic types are described in this guide, along...
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Wonders in Wood: 46 Puzzles and Other Novelties to Make and SolveThis is the sequel to the author's hugely popular ""Puzzles in Wood"" which was reprinted by popular demand and which has been selling for over fifty years.In this collection some 46 puzzles are just waiting to be made up and solved. They range from...
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How to Carve Wood: A Book of Projects and TechniquesWoodcarver Richard Butz teaches chapter by chapter whittling, chip carving, wildlife carving, relief carving, lettering, and architectural carving. In How to Carve Wood, the reader learns by doing, working through carefully illustrated and progressively more challenging exercises and projects. Butz provides scaled patterns for...
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The Secrets of Successful Irish Crochet LaceAnyone who can knit can certainly learn to crochet - in many ways crochet is a more easily mastered needlecraft. This book includes the basic crochet stitch techniques. And anyone who can make simple crochet chains and work a double crochet stitch can make...
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Making Magic Windows: Creating Papel Picado/Cut-Paper ArtFollowing the hands-on format of Carmen Lomas Garza's highly successful papel picado workshops, this book shows, step by step, how to create beautiful designs and banners by simply folding and cutting tissue paper.Following the hands-on format of Carmen Lomas Garza's highly successful papel picado...
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The American Girl's Handy Book: How to Amuse Yourself and OthersExplore, hike, discover, be crafty and have fun with friends or alone, indoors or outside Written for children in 1893, and valuable for both kids and adults today, here's a magical cornucopia of projects, devices, toys, gifts, dolls, recipes, decorations, perfumes, wax and clay...
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Earth Knack: Stone Age Skills for the 21st CenturyEarth Knack is a comprehensive how-to book for using Stone Age skills to fulfill your daily needs from materials readily at hand. Anyone who tries these ideas will find them environmentally appropriate and uniquely fulfilling. Here are just a few skills to enrich you...
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Braiding Fine Leather: Techniques of the Australian WhipmakersIn this book, David Morgan, the expert who made the whips for the Indiana Jones movies, shows how to braid simple projects quickly. With close attention to detail and a little practice using the methods described here, novices can produce attractive and enduring items...
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The Art Glass of Louis Comfort TiffanyLouis Comfort Tiffany considered his Favrile glass, produced between the 1890s and 1920s, his signature artistic achievement. Now highly collectible, the glass underscores one-of-a-kind quality--every piece was blown and decorated by hand. This definitive account explores the full range of Tiffany Studios' remarkably diverse...
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Tin Craft: Making Beautiful Objects from Tin and Tin Cans (Revised)Learn how to create beautiful art from scrap metal The colorful tin decorations seen throughout the American southwest and in Mexico are the inspiration for exciting these tin craft projects you can make yourself. In this book, author Fern-Rae Abraham introduces the marvels of...
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Toymaking with ChildrenThe toys that surround children in their early years can have a profound effect on the development of their skills, creativity, and imagination. Freya Jaffke, an experienced kindergarten teacher, explores the nature of children's play and shows how different toys are suitable for particular...
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Messy Church 2Another messy outing from Lucy Moore, this book follows on from the popular Messy Church, which has sold over 4500 copies since it was first published in 2006. Alongside the usual mix of creativity, fun, Christian hospitality and thanksgiving Messy Church 2 explores the...
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Planking Techniques for Model Ship BuildersPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A Modeler's reference for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models.Author: Donald DresselPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 03/22/1988Pages: 144Binding...
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The World's Greatest Paper Airplane and Toy BookPublisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.This amazing book has every possible airplane design from stunt plane to glider, from the normal dart, to...
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Spider Woman: A Story of Navajo Weavers and ChantersThis lively account of a pioneering anthropologist's experiences with a Navajo family grew out of the author's desire to learn to weave as a way of participating in Navajo culture rather than observing it from the outside. In 1930, when Gladys Reichard came to...
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Printmaking Revolution: New Advancements in Technology, Safety, and SustainabilityA tome of the newest advances in printmaking for today's environmentally conscious art students, master printers, teachers, and artists Etching, lithography, and screenprinting shouldn't be harmful to the artist or the planet. With cutting edge, never-before-published advances in printmaking media, Printmaking Revolution provides artists,...
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