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Origami Paper 200 Sheets Kimono Patterns 6 (15 CM): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Patterns (Instructions for 6 Pro - Loose Leaf

$8.99

by Tuttle Studio (Editor)This pack contains 200 high-quality 6 x 6" (15cm) origami sheets printed with colorful and attractive Kimono Patterns. These kimono patterns were chosen to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. The pack contains 12 patterns unique to this pack, and all of the papers are printed in coordinating colors on the reverse to provide aesthetically pleasing origami models. A booklet in the pack provides step-by-step instructions for 6 origami projec...

Origami Paper 500 Sheets Rainbow Patterns 6 (15 CM): Tuttle Origami Paper: Double-Sided Origami Sheets Printed with 12 Different Designs (Instructions - Loose Leaf

$12.99

by Tuttle Studio (Editor)This pack contains 500 high-quality origami sheets printed with colorful Rainbow Patterns. These illustrations were chosen to enhance the creative work of origami artists and paper crafters. The pack contains 12 patterns unique to this pack, and all of the papers are printed with coordinating colors on the reverse side to provide aesthetically pleasing combinations in origami projects that show both the front and back of the papers. This origami paper pack includes: ...

Rainbow Watercolors Gift Wrapping Papers - 6 Sheets: 24 X 18 Inch Wrapping Paper - Paperback

$7.99

by Tuttle Studio (Editor) These fine-quality tear-out wrapping sheets feature six whimsical watercolor patterns, suitable for craft projects as well as for gift wrapping. An introduction details the history and meaning behind the designs and provides some wrapping inspiration Tuttle Gift Wrapping Papers are an excellent value--a fraction of the price of a single sheet of gift wrap paper from stationery shops Each sheet is removable by tearing along a perforated line There are six sheets ...

$44.91

by Charles B. Heiser (Author)Humankind has had a long and intimate association with gourds, and one of them, the bottle gourd, or calabash, may have been man's first cultivated plant. Although grown in the United States today primarily as ornamentals, in other parts of the world gourds have many other important uses. With charming text and stunning black-and-white photographs, The Gourd Book provides fascinating scientific information and folklore about these remarkable plants and keys for id...

$59.40

by Russel H. Beatie (Author), Dean Krakel (Foreword by), Nancy Kay Niles Saddles is the first complete work on the subject to appear in print. It is an exhaustive survey, in words and more than eight hundred illustrations, of the one indispensable item of horse equipment, whose history began about the time the horse was domesticated, in the dim mists of unrecorded time.More than history, Saddles also explains the construction of the basic saddle, describes the different saddle types, and expl...

Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians: Volume 140 - Paperback

$39.51

by Ronald P. Koch (Author)In the current surge of interest in the history and culture of the American Indian it has become obvious that detailed information about many aspects of Indian life is all but inaccessible to any but the most diligent researchers. In the matter of Indian dress there are, of course, the stereotypes worn by actors in motion pictures and television productions, but they are for the most part highly inaccurate, crafted in designers' studios for effect rather than authent...

Woodwright's Shop: A Practical Guide to Traditional Woodcraft - Paperback

$34.51

by Roy Underhill (Author)Roy Underhill brings to woodworking the intimate relationship with wood that craftsmen enjoyed in the days before power tools. Combining historical background, folklore, alternative technololgy, and humor, he provides both a source of general information and a detailed introduction to traditional woodworking. Beginning with a guide to trees and tools, The Woodwright's Shop includes chapters on gluts and mauls, shaving horses, rakes, chairs, weaving wood, hay forks, do...

Woodwright's Companion: Exploring Traditional Woodcraft - Paperback

$34.51

by Roy Underhill (Author)With The Woodwright's Companinon, Roy Underhill continues to demonstrate "how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it." This volume features chapters on helves and handles, saws, the search for the whetstone quarry, crow chasers and turkey calls, hurdles, whimmy diddles, snaplines and marking gauges, candle stands, planes, window sash, riven shingles, and pit sawing. The final chapter offers a glimps...

Woodwright's Workbook: Further Explorations in Traditional Woodcraft - Paperback

$34.51

by Roy Underhill (Author)Roy Underhill is America's best-known master of traditional woodcraft. Creator of the popular PBS series The Woodwright's Shop, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftsman to armchair woodworker--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm. Roy returns here with his third book. The Woodwright's Workbook features step-by-step instructions for a selection of projects from his television series. All projects are illustrated with photographs and measured drawing...

Turners and Burners: The Folk Potters of North Carolina - Paperback

$66.96

by Charles G. Zug (Author)This richly illustrated portrait of North Carolina's pottery traditions tells the story of the generations of "turners and burners" whose creations are much admired for their strength and beauty. Perhaps no other state possesses such an active and extensive ceramic heritage, and one that is entirely continuous. This book is an attempt to understand both the past and the present, the now largely vanished world of the folk potter and the continuing achievements of his ...

Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop - Paperback

$37.80

by Roy Underhill (Author)For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Through his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, ' and his previous books, Roy has inspired millions--from professional craftspeople to armchair woodworkers--with his talent, knowledge, and enthusiasm. Roy returns now with his fourth book, The Woodwright's...

The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games - Paperback

$34.56

by Linda Garland Page (Editor), Hilton Smith (Editor)Part oral history and part rule book, The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys and Games is a joyous collection of memories of playing indoor and outdoor games; of making dolls, homemade board games, playhouses, and other toys--each with complete instructions and the flavor of southern Appalachia. Every toy and game has been tested by the Foxfire students and is devised to make or play yourself, without major expense, complicated parts, or elec...

The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge - Paperback

$34.51

by Roy Underhill (Author)For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, The Woodwright's Shop, has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, in his seventh book, Roy shows how to engage the mysteries of the splitting wedge and the cutting edge to shape wood from forest to furniture.Beginning with the standing tree, each chapter of The Woodwright's Guide explores one of nine trades of woodcraft: faller, countryman and cleaver, hewer, log-builder, sawyer, carpenter...

Raised in Clay: The Southern Pottery Tradition - Paperback

$53.46

by Nancy Sweezy (Author)Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the South, one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how families preserve and practice the traditional art of pottery making today. First published in 1984, Sweezy's book documents the last generation of potters to have direct contact with preindustrial pottery tradi...

The Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the Woodwright's Shop - Paperback

$37.26

by Roy Underhill (Author)For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up chisel and plane. The master woodwright returns here with instructions for handcrafting an appealing selection of projects from the American woodworking tradition. The Woodwright's Apprentice begins with d...

Foxfire Christmas: Appalachian Memories and Traditions - Paperback

$32.40

by Eliot Wigginton (Editor), Bobby Ann Starnes (Preface by)New in paperback This captivating book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families as passed from one generation to the next. Based on Foxfire students' interviews with neighbors and family members, the memories shared here are from a simpler time, when gifts were fewer but perhaps more precious, and holiday tables were laden with traditional favorites. More than just reminiscences, however, A Foxfire Ch...

Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry - Paperback

$64.73

by Sarah H. Hill (Author)In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee women by examining changes in their basketry. Based in tradition and made from locally gathered materials, baskets evoke the lives and landscapes of their makers. Indeed, as Weaving New Worlds reveals, the stories of Cherokee baskets and the women who weave them are intertwined and inseparable. Incorporating written, woven, and spoken records, Hill demonstrates that changes in Cherok...

The Cardboard Bible: Taking Cardboard Crafting to the Extremes of Creativity and Upcycling - Paperback

$21.58

by Luanga a. Nuwame (Author), Randall Wickham (Editor)Welcome to this new series dedicated to transforming ordinary cardboard into incredible, fun, useful and practical products for your personal use. This guide will showcase original creative concepts and will provide detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make the featured designs on YOUR terms. Cardboard is the greatest building material available to all people based on the simple fact that it is predominantly free, overtly abundant ...

Love the Details: Add your own or just color - Paperback

$25.90

by Agnes Zulueta (Author)Basic and Detailed versions of- Chinese and Embroidery Shop- Dressing Room and Filipino- Flower Shop and Gatsby- Indian and Ironing- Japanese and Kitchen- Korean and Laundry- Market and Peranakan- Mexican and Japanese Pond- Spanish and Tea House- Thai and Vietnamese Number of Pages: 88 Dimensions: 0.23 x 8.5 x 11 IN Publication Date: August 19, 2022

KRiggsArt Paintings: Colouring Book - Paperback

$20.25

by Kimberly Riggs (Author)Some of my original paintings have been transformed into colouring book pages of varying complexity. Take a moment to sit back, relax, play with colour, and take a moment to escape the stresses of your day. I would love to see what you come up with. If you're willing, please post your coloured pages to social media using the hashtag #kriggsartcolouringbook, or #kriggsartcoloringbook. The originals paintings can be found at www.kriggsart.com. Number of Pages: 64 Dimen...

Upcycle: Songwriting & Art-Making to Break Cycles of Trauma and Create Something Valuable - Paperback

$21.60

by Bree (Author), Bree (Cover Design by), Green Panda Press (Created by)Bree collects her complete catalog of song lyrics with a personal essay about using poetry and songwriting to break cycles of trauma, and create something valuable, and empowering. Writing, art, music- all forms of art-making require utter focus. That focus, mindfulness, excludes worries about the past or future. It is the same concentration people use meditation and yoga to achieve. While we create, or listen to music or...

Stained Glass Suncatchers: 24 Cutting-Edge Patterns and How to Make Them - Paperback

$37.60

by Heidi Wurm (Author), Sarah Allgire (Author), Hannah Jacobs (Author)A Stained Glass Guide for AllThis contemporary stained glass process and pattern book is designed for all levels of interest and experience. Glass Class was founded by stained glass artisan Heidi Wurm and her creative daughters Sarah Allgire and Hannah Jacobs. Together, they created this easy-to-follow guide to share the joy and art of stained glass. Those new to the craft will find everything they need to get started with ...

Knook Your Socks Off: Knit Your Socks Using a Crochet Needle - Paperback

$42.73

by Agnes Lobbezoo (Author)If you have a choice between knitting socks on 3 or 4 needles vs a crochet hook, would you take the challenge? How to knook your socks will give you that. It is easy to learn, easy to do and the result is the same as if you knitted it on straight knitting needles. Learn the art of how to knook your own socks and WOW your friends. Why should do anything else today besides crocheting Thinking this just keeps me smiling, as I crochet round after round after round . ...

Into the Woods: Families Making Art in Nature - Paperback

$27.00

by Sue Fierston (Author)Discover your family's inner artist in the great outdoors In Into the Woods, artist and teacher Sue Fierston has created 12+ chapters of family-friendly games and art activities designed to engage the senses and get your family in touch with nature at any season. From fish prints to outdoor meditation, Into the Woods makes it easy to go outside with your family and have fun, whether your kids are 5 or 15. You'll try: Printing with real fish and making a t-shirt in an...

$34.11

by P. E. Jerry Yeaney (Author)This book is intended for the experienced Mousetrap Car designer who desires a set of theoretical equations that may be useful for Mousetrap Car design optimization. Text equations are supported with experimental data from in-house testing of several Mousetrap Car designs. The equations attempt to guide questions such as:  How much energy is available from the spring of a mousetrap?  How much time does it take a Mousetrap Car to travel a given displacement?  H...

Intermediate Guide to Punch Needle: What Every Punch Needle Artist Needs to Know to Get Better - Paperback

$21.58

by Ari Yoshinobu (Author)If you want to get better at punch needling sitting at home, without paying $40+ every month for online courses, then read on...Do you want to level up your punch needle skills?Do you want to express your creativity and make your own designs?Do you feel ready to share and sell your crafts, but can't find a place to do so?If your answer is yes, then this book is for you Inside this book you'll discover: How to dye your own wool in 6 steps, and get the exact color you ...

Craft a Multi-Key Native American Style Flute: Adapted from A Comprehensive Guide Native American Flute History & Craft - Paperback

$9.79

by C. S. Fuqua (Author)The contents of this booklet have been adapted from A Comprehensive Guide Native American Flute History & Craft, by C.S. Fuqua, which provides a thorough, documented account of the Native American flute's history and mythology and an illustrated, step-by-step crafting guide for making Native American style flutes of any key and size, including the multi-barrel system, Native American drone flutes, ancient end-blown Native American flutes, and modern two-chamber Nati...

$37.53

by Athena Maker (Author)Let the crochet melt your daily stress away like snow in the sun. Did you know that crochet is a great way to fight stress and relieve anxiety? It has the same benefits as meditation...but WITHOUT closing your eyes, sitting still, and trying to clear your mind. What's more, at the end of your "meditation session" (aka, "crochet session") you find yourself in your hands something that you have done yourself - a potholder, a scarf, a sweater. What a gratification! But to...

Dear Tomorrow: Journaling Your Story Today - Paperback

$9.72

by Nina Hundley (Author)Capture life's greatest lessons and treasured memories.Do you wish you had a simple way to document memories? Many keepsake journals can be long and daunting and most people won't complete them. But the Dear Tomorrow Journal is designed differently. It's an easy-to-complete journal you can start at any age to record life's most precious lessons and life-changing moments. Designed to capture and preserve important memories in a simplified manner, this gift book is a spe...

30 Questions about the Japanese Art of the Kimono: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Art of Traditional Japanese Dress - Paperback

$26.98

by Eikotto Japan Guide (Author)As a tour guide for more than ten years, I have hosted more than a thousand overseas guests to Japan. I have noticed that certain questions come up again and again. I thought it would be helpful to have a book that answers the most common questions about the ancient Japanese art of the kimono.If you take the time to learn about the traditional kimono, you will understand its real attraction as an art. Traditional kimonos utilize sophisticated Japanese handicraft...

How to Start Your Curiosity Cabinet - Hardcover

$71.80

by Lesley Koomen (Author)Are you always mesmerized by all the beautiful curiosities displayed in curiosity cabinets? This book will function as your guide in the beautiful world of curiosities and oddities. Number of Pages: 258 Dimensions: 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: August 29, 2021

Zen Coloring Book for Adults. - Paperback

$10.53

by Abicam Books (Created by), M. Gelbke (Author)Discover a haven of tranquility and mindfulness within the pages of this Zen adult coloring book designed for stress relief. Immerse yourself in a world of intricate patterns and soothing designs inspired by the serenity of Zen philosophy. As you color each page with a meditative focus, let the gentle strokes of your pencil or pen whisk away the worries of the day. Unleash your creativity and find solace in the therapeutic process of coloring, w...