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Название: Making Winter: A Creative Guide for Surviving the Winter Months
Автор: Emma Mitchell
Издательство: LOM Art
Год: 2017
Формат: PDF
Размер: 148 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This nature-inspired collection of winter-themed creative projects includes leaf preservation, silver-jewellery making, paper decorations, crocheted mittens, foraged infusions and seasonal recipes, all accompanied by step-by-step instructions and photographs shot at crafter Emma Mitchells home in the Fens.

Название: Zodiac Puzzles for Scroll Saw Woodworking: 30 Projects from the Eastern and Western Calendars
Автор: Judy and Dave Peterson
Издательство: Fox Chapel Publishing
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Размер: 19 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A comprehensive pattern and project guidebook for making interlocking puzzles, this exciting collection is based on astrological signs. With two complete projects--Capricorn and Year of the Horse--novice scrollers will benefit from step-by-step guidance and 22 additional zodiac patterns and six bonus patterns based on other celestial bodies, including the Big Dipper and Orion. With projects provided in a detailed cutting pattern and a solid silhouette version, each offering is fully adaptable to a wide variety of media. Fascinating information about each astrological sign, including its character traits, and corresponding calendar dates, and a photograph of the source material used to design the pattern accompany each project.

Название: The Art of Paper Cutting
Автор: Henya Melichson
Издательство: Quarry Books
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 10 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Papercutting is an ancient, elegant art that dates almost as far back as the creation of paper itself. In today's multicultural world, papercutting embraces any number of themes, designs, and images. It is an all-inclusive art that requires few tools and minimal materials. All one needs is instruction and inspiration, both of which are found in good measure in The Art of Papercutting. The book includes more than 20 projects that feature a range of sizes, subject matters, and techniques. Every project features step-by-step photographs and numerous helpful hints.

Название: Tool Making Projects for Joinery & Woodworking: A Yankee Craftsman's Practical Methods
Автор: Steve Olesin
Издательство: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1892836238
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 100 MB
Язык: English

Take your woodworking to a new level by making your very own handmade tools. Here is a fully illustrated, hands-on guide to making 20 essential hand tools. All of them can be made using common tools in your workshop and easy-to-learn techniques suitable for all skill levels. Joinery and general woodworking tools you'll learn to make include: *Single-beam cutting gauge *Dual-beam marking gauge *Mortising, Dovetail, Joinery Check, and Sliding Bevel gauges *Marking knife *Case-squaring stick *Wooden square *Backsaw *Bucksaw *Bench and Shoulder plane *Cam clamp *Bench hook *Shooting board *And more! Tool Making Projects for Joinery & Woodworking will teach you the joys of crafting beautiful and practical items using tools made with your own two hands. The book also includes lessons on how to use these tools to cut mortise and tenon joints and dovetail joints.

Название: The Bust DIY Guide to Life: Making Your Way Through Every Day
Автор: Debbie Stoller, Laurie Henzel
Издательство: ‎‎Stewart, Tabori and Chang
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Whether it’s sewing clothes, making cheese, or growing a garden, the modern appeal of “do-it-yourself” projects has a broader reach than ever. And who better to teach us how to DIY our lives than the über-crafty editors of BUST, the quirky, raw, and real magazine “for women who have something to get off their chests”? In The BUST DIY Guide to Life, magazine founders Debbie Stoller (of Stitch ’n Bitch fame) and Laurie Henzel have culled more than 250 of the best DIY and craft projects from its 15-year history. Organized by category—beauty and health, fashion, food and entertaining, career, finance, travel, and sex—and written in BUST’s trademark brazen and witty style, this quintessential DIY encyclopedia from the quintessential DIY magazine is eclectic, empowering, hilarious, and downright practical, truly capturing the spirit of women today.

Название: Нарды - игра тысячелетий. Самоучитель
Автор: Фадеев Игорь
Издательство: Самиздат
Год: 2011
Формат: pdf+djvu
Страниц: 152
Размер: 13.3 Мб
Язык: русский

Эта книга – сборник нардовских игр с элементами самоучителя – станет стимулом для начинающих игроков, справочником для опытных нардистов и послужит популяризации этой интересной, полезной и увлекательной игры. История этой древней игры теряется в глубине пяти тысячелетий. Благодаря простым правилам и лёгкости обучения нарды доступны всем желающим и число поклонников этой игры в мире неуклонно растёт.

Название: The Art of Bonsai: Creation, Care and Enjoyment
Автор: Yuji Yoshimura, Giovanna M. Halford
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Год: 1996
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Learn the ins and outs of proper bonsai design and care with this comprehensive Japanese gardening book. Japanese bonsai have long been admired throughout the world while their care and preservation have seemed shrouded in mystery. The Art of Bonsai is, however, a comparatively simple art to learn. Anyone with a love for plants, a little patience and this eminently practical book can create bonsai and keep a finished plant healthy and vigorous for generations. This classic work remains an eminently practical book and is the classic guide to bonsai care. It contains the essentials of an art that is one of Japan's most treasured traditions—sculpting beauty in living wood.

Название: Art Made from Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed
Автор: Laura Heyenga, Brian Dettmer
Издательство: Chronicle Books
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 130 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Artists around the world have lately been turning to their bookshelves for more than just a good read, opting to cut, paint, carve, stitch or otherwise transform the printed page into whole new beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. Art Made from Books is the definitive guide to this compelling art form, showcasing groundbreaking work by today's most showstopping practitioners. From Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up landscapes to the stacked-book sculptures of Kylie Stillman, each portfolio celebrates the incredible creative diversity of the medium. A preface by pioneering artist Brian Dettmer and an introduction by design critic Alyson Kuhn round out the collection. Presented in an unusual, tactile package with an exposed spine, this is an essential addition to the libraries of book lovers and art aficionados.

Название: Martha Stewart's Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines
Автор: Martha Stewart
Издательство: Mariner Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 118 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Trust Martha to help you master all things organizing—sorting, purging, tidying, and simplifying your life—with smart solutions and inspiration. Here, she offers her best guidance, methods, and DIY projects for organizing in and around your home. Topics include room-by-room strategies (how to sort office paperwork, when to purge the garage or attic), seasonal advice (when to swap out bedding and clothing, how to put away holiday decorations), and day-by-day or week-by-week plans for projects such as de-cluttering, house cleaning, creating a filing system, overhauling the closet, and more. Martha’s indispensable expertise walks you through goal-setting, principles of organizing, useful supplies, and creating systems for ongoing success. A look into Martha’s own personal calendars offers a template for scheduling essential tasks. Last, plenty of strategies, how-tos, timelines, and checklists will help you stay organized all year long.

Название: #shelfie: How to style and display your collections
Автор: Geraldine James
Издательство: CICO Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 57 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Use your shelves to display your collections and create ever-evolving works of art with Geraldine James’s inspirational ideas. Find out how you can use what you already have in a stylish and unexpected way to revitalize a room. Whether you want to group a collection of colorful vases against a dark wall, use picture rails to line up a selection of prints, or organize plants and treasured finds from the natural world, any shelf can be a stage for artful arrangements with this innovative guide. You can find a home for all your prized possessions, and the best thing about shelves is that you can change a display whenever the mood takes you. Chapter by chapter, discover ideas for how to arrange virtually anything and begin a journey into color, textures, and themes to create elegant focal points that give a home character and charm.