Название: Essential Links for Wire Jewelry, 3rd Edition
Автор: Lora S. Irish
Издательство: Fox Chapel Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In this updated, compact 56-page reference guide, you'll learn to use your favorite jewelry wire—whether gold, silver, copper, or bronze—to create more than 300 different wire links that can be used in countless combinations to form necklaces, earrings, and bracelets. Internationally renowned artist and talented author Lora S. Irish shows you how to use a handful of tools and materials to produce fun and elegant pieces simply by learning the basic steps. You'll find a collection of helpful wire techniques and tutorials, from the basics to coiling and adding beads.

Название: Ultimate Crochet Nursery: 40 Designs for Blankets, Baskets, Decor & So Much More
Автор: Kristi Simpson
Издательство: Stackpole Books
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 115 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Adorn the nursery with handmade crochet pieces for baby! Your baby deserves the ultimate in crochet designer luxury. From soft and squishy blankets and rugs to colorful baskets, huggable lovies, stylish totes, wall hangings, mobiles, toys, and so much more, Ultimate Crochet Nursery delivers 40 patterns for diverse items for the baby and nursery. All patterns are suitable for a beginner to intermediate crocheter, and can be worked up quickly so you’ll be ready to go when baby arrives. Make the items in the bright pastels shown here, or change up the colors to your favorite hues. There’s so much to make, so get your hooks and yarn, and get going—baby’s on the way!

Название: Sew Outdoor Living: Brighten Up Your Garden with 22 Colourful Projects
Автор: Debbie Shore
Издательство: Search Press
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Размер: 176 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Bring handcrafted style to your garden or patio with this beginner-friendly guide featuring 22 sewing projects. Using easy-to-follow photography and simple instructions Debbie shows you how to create fun and practical accessories for your next garden party, barbecue, or lazy Sunday by the pool. Sew Outdoor Living features decorative projects like outdoor seat cushions, placemats, plant pot covers, and bunting. Debbie also includes practical items such as a BBQ tool roll and picnic caddy. There’s even a teepee for the kids!

Название: Advanced Creative Draping
Автор: Karolyn Kiisel
Издательство: Laurence King Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 82 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Advanced Creative Draping teaches designers and students how to drape fashion-forward, conceptual designs that use elements of couture construction to elevate the work to the highest level of fashion. Five methods of draping are explored as well as draping using embellishments or particular surface designs. The final chapter demonstrates how to create a high quality heirloom garment. Featuring specially commissioned step-by-step photography, the book includes tips from designers working with draping methods today. Essentially an advanced textbook for the serious fashion student, it also serves as a workroom reference book for professional fashion and costume designers.

Название: Couture Tailoring: A Construction Guide for Women's Jackets
Автор: Claire Shaeffer
Издательство: Laurence King Publishing
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 71 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Bestselling author Claire Shaeffer teaches you everything you need to know to plan and sew the perfect jacket. Based on couture techniques learnt from master tailors, this book begins with the equipment, materials, design elements, and sewing and construction techniques used in all types of tailoring. Part Two provides an illustrated step-by-step guide to making a couture jacket, explaining all the design options and alternative methods for making every element including collars, sleeves and pockets. Couture Tailoring includes over 800 step-by-step illustrations throughout, over 200 photographs of couture jackets by Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and more than 100 couture tips.

Название: Reconstructing Clothes For Dummies
Автор: Miranda Caroligne Burns
Издательство: For Dummies
Год: 2007
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 29 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Reconstructing Clothes for Dummies offers inspiring projects and savvy tips on how to salvage those tired old clothes in your closet and turn them into a one–of–a–kind wardrobe. It shows craftsters, DIY enthusiasts, budget–conscious fashionistas and people from all walks of life how to unleash their inner fashion designer and transform outdated duds into hip new clothes. Featured projects include making good use of old scraps; reviving shrunken sweaters; finding redemption in that bridesmaid dress; decorative repair and embellishment of existing pieces; and creating unexpected home décor with what s hiding in your drawers.

Название: 365 Quick & Easy Tips: Home Cleaning
Автор: Weldon Owen
Издательство: Weldon Owen
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 217 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Quick and Easy Home Cleaning gives you everything you need to know on how to establish practical cleaning routines, create daily upkeep schedules, and make DIY green-cleaning solutions to help keep every area of your home neat, safe, and, most importantly, spotless. Learn how to tackle the most difficult stains, how often to deep clean upholstery, and how to maintain cleanliness throughout all 365 days of the year. Complete with step-by-step instructions and handy checklists to make cleaning and organizing your home easier than you ever thought possible, learn the secrets to implementing a proven cleaning system to keep up with daily, weekly, and monthly chores for a spotless home. Whether you’re new to home keeping or a seasoned cleaner, you’ll find that cleanliness is achievable all year long, one day at a time.

Название: Узоры разнотравья
Автор: Федотов Г.Я.
Издательство: Просвещение
Год: 1992
Страниц: 201
Формат: pdf
Размер: 23 mb

Эта книга посвящена травам. Свою тайну и поэтическую историю поведают полынь, крапива и все российское разнотравье, воспетое в живописи, графике, архитектуре, фольклоре, литературе и музыке. Книга расскажет и об истории возникновения многих, в том числе малоизвестных, видов художественной обработки трав.
Впервые излагается технология изготовления декоративных панно и скульптуры из пустырных трав и многое другое.

Название: Beaded Jewelry with Found Objects: Incorporate Anything from Buttons to Shells
Автор: Carole Rodgers
Издательство: Krause Publications
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Размер: 36 Мб
Язык: английский / English

With the more than 30 original projects featured in Beaded Jewelry with Found Objects, and the inspiration to create more, readers are able to match designer jewelry?reflective of their impeccable taste?with each outfit they own! Professional designer and self-proclaimed ?Beadaholic,? Carole Rodgers enthusiastically shares a striking new approach to the age-old hobby of beading?transforming easily obtainable household objects into distinctive, one-of-a-kind wearable jewelry designs. Using items that can be found in hardware stores, fishing tackle stores, flea markets, glass items, game pieces, cabochons, and other natural objects, readers of all skill levels will be beading gifts as individual as themselves. Projects, such as the Amethyst Crystal Necklace?made with a pie-shaped slice of amethyst crystal on a chain of amethyst and lavender seed beads, are photographed and accompanied by clear instructions. Basic skills, such as stitches, making neck straps and fringes, and beading around the objects used in the projects, are also explained with detailed, step-by-step instructions.

Название: DIY Bookbinding
Автор: Brian Sawyer
Издательство: O'Reilly Media
Год: 2011
Формат: PDF
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Bookbinding may well be a dying art in this digital age, but you can still learn how to do it yourself with this easy-to-follow ebook. In fact, you can reverse the course of evolution and convert this particular digital specimen into a durable, hand-stitched book that will last for generations. When you’re finished, this ebook will truly be "hands-on." O'Reilly Senior Editor Brian Sawyer takes you through the process with step-by-step instructions and scores of instructive photographs. All you need to bring to the table are a few simple materials—including magazines you'd like to preserve. Discover how simple, unmessy, fun, and satisfying binding books by hand can be.