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Название: Embroidery Made Easy: Beautiful Birds
Автор: Beth Hoyes
Издательство: Walter Foster Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 32 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Learn to create a variety of birds following the newest embroidery trend: thread painting. Through a collection of 12 detailed, full-color patterns, aspiring and established embroidery artists will discover how to employ the art of thread painting to create a range of popular birds and waterfowl from around the world, including North America, the Amazon rain forest, and Europe. Thread painting is the name for using single strands of embroidery floss to create lifelike images with beautifully blended gradients of color and detail. Fortunately, the process is not as hard as it sounds! After learning a bit about how to create gradients and blend colors, anyone can create incredible embroidered masterpieces.

Название: A Field Guide to Identifying Woods in American Antiques & Collectibles
Автор: Bruce Hoadley
Издательство: Taunton
ISBN: 1631863711
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 256
Размер: 101 MB
Язык: English

A Field Guide to Identifying Woods in American Antiques & Collectibles is the authority on wood identification. Beginning with general information about the featured woods, the book then delves into hundreds of detailed photographs, even at a macroscopic level, depicting the critical characteristics used in identification. Ultimately, each wood is presented in two or more antique or collectible objects to illustrate the traits that confirm the wood's identification.

Название: Beading and Designing Bracelets
Автор: S. D. Halpenny
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Год: 2014
Размер: 27 mb
Формат: epub
Страниц: 154
Язык: Английский

Книга по бисероплетению. Она написана с учетом необходимости создания ваших собственных уникальных браслетов. Работая с изданием, вы можете освоить множество техник, таких как плетение сеткой, плетение под прямым углом, шевронная цепочка и квадратный стежок. Вы наглядно увидите, как добавление вариаций к базовому дизайну может изменить внешний вид, создавая оригинальные дизайны, уникальные для каждого.

Название: On Weaving: New Expanded Edition
Автор: Anni Albers, Nicholas Fox Weber
Издательство: Princeton University Press
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 76 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Written by one of the twentieth century’s leading textile artists, this splendidly illustrated book is a luminous meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. First published in 1965, On Weaving bridges the transition between handcraft and the machine-made, highlighting the essential importance of material awareness and the creative leaps that can occur when design problems are tackled by hand. With her focus on materials and handlooms, Anni Albers discusses how technology and mass production place limits on creativity and problem solving, and makes the case for a renewed embrace of human ingenuity that is particularly important today.

Название: Weaving Iridescence: Color Play for the Handweaver
Автор: Bobbie Irwin
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 57 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Iridescent fabric shimmers and glows, changing colors depending on how the light hits it. Different colors appear in the folds and pleats, adding surprising layers of color to fabric. To the uninformed it appears magical and difficult, but the truth is that weaving iridescent fabric is accessible to any handweaver who knows the tricks. Bobbie Irwin has been teaching the techniques for weaving iridescence in person and through articles for more than ten years. In this book, she delivers her most comprehensive course yet, covering the details from how to evaluate and choose yarn to achieve your desired effect to the ways weave structure affects iridescence to the best uses for your iridescent fabric. Hands-on project instructions will have you exploring what you've learned right away. If you have been looking to add some shimmer to your weaving, this is the only book you will ever need!

Название: Log Cabin Improv: Quilts with a Twist on Tradition
Автор: Mary M. Hogan
Издательство: Landauer
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 108 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Are you a quilter seeking to try your hand at improv quilting, but not quite sure how to approach the technique? This must-have guide to improv quilting offers some sought-after structure using a very familiar quilt block: log cabins! The ultimate guide to learning how to play with improv, this 128-page book will show you everything you need to know to quilt confidently using log cabin blocks as your base. With the log cabin quilt block structure, you can explore a variety of improvisational possibilities while still ending up with a quilt that goes together beautifully!

Название: Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models
Автор: Ron McCarthy
Издательство: Conway Maritime Press
ISBN: 0851776299
Год издания: 1994
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 200
Формат: PDF
Размер: 114,9 MB

Though a single ship is employed as an example, the techniques can equally well be applied to any wooden sailing ship, and for this reason the book is an essential tool for model makers - beginners and the experienced alike.

Название: Chunky Knits: Cozy Hats, Scarves and More Made Simple with Extra-Large Yarn
Автор: Alyssarhaye Graciano
Издательство: Page Street Publishing
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 175
Размер: 17,5 Mb
Язык: English

Big, Bold, Beautiful Knits Perfect for Beginners (and Procrasti-Knitters)
With big needles and oversized yarn, anyone can knit up fun, stylish patterns in a flash! Alyssarhaye Graciano, knitwear designer and founder of BlackSheepMade, filled this book with quick projects perfect for your friends, family, pets and home.

Название: In This Garden: Exploration in Mixed-Media Visual Narrative
Автор: Angela Cartwright, Sarah Fishburn
Издательство: Quarry Books
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 18 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This book acts as a showcase for a collaborative art project sponsored by artists Angela Cartwright and Sarah Fishburn. The project explores the theme of "gardens" as a metaphor for peace, beauty, tranquility, reflection, and creativity, while at the same offering readers an inspiring collage workbook that explores the techniques, methods, and the insights of the participating artists. The book includes inspiring garden-related quotes that artists can use in theirown work, a blank"garden gate" template, and a gallery of garden-themed imagery that readers can alter and use in their own artwork.

Название: Small Loom & Freeform Weaving: Five Ways to Weave
Автор: Barbara Matthiessen
Издательство: Creative Publishing
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 29 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Yarn arts and felting are two of today's most popular crafts, and popularity for weaving, a natural extension of those crafts, is growing. Small hand-held looms and tabletop looms are now available at yarn shops and hobby/craft stores, and readers of Small Loom and Freeform Weaving can even construct looms themselves using common household materials. Most looms can be constructed in a couple minutes and can be reused numerous times. This book will also show readers how to use their looms. Included are 30 projects, some of which can easily be completed in an evening or weekend. Readers will enjoy step-by-step, diagrammed instructions for personal items, such as iPod and cell phone holders, scarves, purses, and jewelry, and home decor projects, such as pillows, table runners, wall hangings, and book covers.