Название: Quick & Easy Stitched Jewelry: 20+ Projects to Make
Автор: Cathy Jakicic
Издательство: Kalmbach Media Co.
Год издания: 2016
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 113
Размер: 129 Mb
Язык: English

Cathy Jakicic captures the untapped market of beginner stitchers. No one has made a book this simple yet creative. The book contains 20 basic stitching projects that result in pretty, fashion-forward jewelry. She very cleverly adds project variations, with instructions that expand the number of projects to 40+. Each variation is very different from the core design. Each design has a stitching element, some flat designs, and some 3D. This book has something for everyone and is a great value.

Название: Modern Japanese Crochet: Classic Stitches Made Easy
Автор: Nihon Vogue
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 59 Мб
Язык: английский / English

15 amazing stitches, 10 simple lessons, and 25 glorious projects. Modern Japanese Crochet casts the classic stitches you think you know in a totally new light, showing them in ways that add striking textures and contrasts to handcrafted pieces. For the experienced needlework enthusiast, this book is a revelation--the perfect introduction to the unique Japanese style of crocheting and charted patterns. The introduction by Gayle Roehm explains how Japanese crochet diagrams work, allowing you to stitch these fantastic patterns and projects easily. A section on stitch techniques walks you through the basic stitches, adding and decreasing, binding, and finishing.

Название: The Modern Flower Press: Capturing the Beauty of Nature
Автор: Melissa Richardson, Amy Fielding
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 107 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In The Modern Flower Press, innovative florists Melissa Richardson and Amy Fielding (owners of JamJar Flowers) share their abundant knowledge of flowers and tell the stories that surround the traditional art of flower pressing, reinventing the craft into a very modern form that celebrates the colour, shape and beauty of flowers. The Modern Flower Press is a storybook full of entertaining facts, myths and legends about flowers. Melissa and Amy explain all aspects of the history of pressing flowers, from its origins to the present day. They show you how to choose the right flowers for pressing, how to prepare and press them, and share ideas for projects and artworks to display them in all their perfectly preserved glory.

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: 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: 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.