Название: Eco Colour: Botanical Dyes for Beautiful Textiles
Автор: India Flint
Издательство: Interweave
Год: 2010
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 77 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The essence of plants bursts forth in magnificent hues and surprising palettes. Using dyes of the leaves, roots, and flowers to color your cloth and yarn can be an amazing journey into botanical alchemy. In Eco Colour, artistic dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you how to cull and use this gentle and ecologically sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes. India explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant color using a wide variety of techniques and recipes. From whole-dyed cloth and applied color to prints and layered dye techniques, India describes only ecologically sustainable plant-dye methods. She uses renewable resources and shows how to do the least possible harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a number of entirely new processes developed by India, as well as guidelines for plant collection, directions for the distillation of nontoxic mordants, and methodologies for applying plant dyes. Eco Colour inspires both the home dyer and textile professional seeking to extend their skills using India's successful methods.

Название: Quilting with Stash or Cash: 10 Patterns, 20 Quilts, Lots of Creative Options
Автор: Linda J. Hahn
Издательство: Landauer
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 47 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Quilt beautiful projects whether you want to use up your stash or spend your cash! Featuring 10 quilt patterns and two options for each—one "Stash" (using scraps and fabric you already own) and one "Cash" (newly purchased fabric)—inside this inspirational guide, you get to decide for each project whether you want to use up your fabric scraps or go shopping for new yardage. With step-by-step instructions, expert tips, helpful diagrams, and other helpful tips, Quilting with Stash or Cash offers so much to love with 20 total quilt designs and possibilities. Inside this unique quilting project book, you'll learn different ways to piece traditional quilt blocks for easy construction, make your stash fabrics work with patterns, cut and sort your scraps, add sashing and borders, and other techniques to strengthen your quilting skills.

Название: Weaving: Structure and Substance
Автор: Ann Richards
Издательство: ‎The Crowood Press
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 63 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Weaving: Structure and Substance looks at weave design from several different perspectives, showing how resources, ideas and practical experience can come together in a creative process of designing through making. Emphasizing the potential of woven textiles throughout, Ann Richards follows the success of her sister title Weaving Textiles that Shape Themselves and explores the tactile properties that emerge from the interaction of material and structure. The book is organized into four parts that look at the natural world as inspiration, the design resources of material and weave structure, the fabric qualities as starting points for design, and the practical issues of designing through making. With over 280 lavish photos, this book will be an invaluable resource for textile designers and enthusiasts looking for inspiration and practical advice.

Название: A Year of Creativity: A Craft Date Planner to Meet, Share, and Create
Автор: Petra Hoeksema, Lidy Nooij
Издательство: ‎Quarry Books
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Do something creative every day! In A Year of Creativity, learn how to throw the perfect creative party with your friends—with organizing tips, 25 project ideas, and even recipes for snacks. Can’t meet in person? Organize a virtual party to connect with others as you work on the same craft project. Then share your unique results with creative people all over the world. A "craft date" is a fun get-together with a handful of creative friends in which you surprise each other with craft and DIY projects using cool materials, inspire each other, and make beautiful things together. At each date, a group of participants share a self-made project to be re-created by the other attendees. Materials are individualized for each participant and given as a unique personal gift along with the instructions for the project. A craft date is different than a workshop since you get to choose the lovely people that you invite, and as the organizer, you get to participate in all the projects. Invitees can put their own spin on the project by using their favorite colors, materials, or techniques. This way you end up with a range of different interpretations and results, leading to new inspiration and ideas.

Название: Школа кройки и шитья Анастасии Корфиати
Автор: Анастасия Корфиати
Издательство: ACT
Год выхода: 2015
Страниц: 514
Формат: PDF
Язык: русский
Размер: 53,9 MB

Более 25 лет своей жизни Анастасия посвятила моде. Эта книга - результат многолетнего опыта, практики и разработок, которые привели к созданию простой и доступной для понимания системы обучения шитью. Если вы не знаете с чего начать, чтобы шить понравившуюся вещь, то эта книга для вас настоящая находка! А усердие и практика - основные составляющие вашего успеха.

Название: The Metal Detecting Handbook: The Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Uncovering History, Adventure, and Treasure
Автор: Mark Smith
Издательство: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510711754
Год: 2016
Формат: PDF (conv)
Страниц: 397
Размер: 7,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Enthusiastic and thorough, everything you need to know about discovering buried treasure from choosing your first metal detector to finding locations loaded with possibilities, and everything in between.
There is an incredible amount of treasure buried right under our feet, but most people don’t even know this huge amount of untold wealth exists. Imagine how it must feel to uncover large caches of silver and gold coins or long-lost jewelry packed with shimmering, precious stones.

Название: Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media
Автор: LK Ludwig
Издательство: Quarry Books
Год: 2009
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Using a variety of formats, collaborative art projects result in wonderfully complex pieces, and often provide the glue between artists within a community. Heavy on visual inspiration, Collaborative Art Journals and Shared Visions in Mixed Media covers various organizational structures for collaborative art projects, offers instructions and tips for organizing such ventures, and includes interviews with organizers and participants of collaborative projects, as well as a healthy smattering of techniques including how to create books that can be added to as they travel and how to devise various binding structures for different paper projects.

Название: Last-Minute Afghans
Автор: Rena V. Stevens
Издательство: Annie's
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB, AZW3
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An alternative to typical afghan patterns, this workbook of original designs presents transportable projects that can be made in a flash. The afghans are created by knitting sections at a time and then sewing or crocheting the final afghan together, providing more versatility and less bulk to carry around during the process. The designs can be easily customized and call for affordable yarns that are readily available and can be washed. With six patterns to make in various colorways, the book offers a new perspective on the classic afghan.

Название: Applique the Sew Quirky Way: Fresh designs for quick and easy applique
Автор: Mandy Murray
Издательство: David & Charles
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 86 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Learn how to do quick and easy applique the Sew Quirky way for fun, sewn projects. This collection of 12 designs for bright and bold machine applique patterns can be used to create bags, pillows, and quilts as well as to embellish clothes. Author, Mandy Murray, has a very unique style and that is reflected in her irreverent, humorous approach to designing, so whether it’s a dachshund in a doughnut or a flamingo who likes to mingle, her designs can’t fail to make you smile. This collection includes 12 projects for homewares and wearables. Choose from a fun floor cushion to an apron, table mats, wall hanging and even a dinosaur inspired applique design for a denim jacket. Mandy uses fusible applique to bring her designs to life and she explains this technique with step-by-step instructions and illustrations at the beginning of the book along with specific advice about getting the most from your sewing machine and using unusual fabrics – she loves to incorporate cork, vinyl and other eye catching fabrics into her designs.

Название: Elemental Macrame: 20 macramé and crystal projects for balance and beauty
Автор: Rebecca Millar
Издательство: David & Charles
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 30 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The idea of classical ‘elements’ is common to many belief systems including Ancient Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as Chinese and Japanese philosophies. The five elements of the Pagan religion Wicca represent the five points of the pentagram, a powerful sacred symbol. No matter what your beliefs, paying attention to the forces of nature can bring a greater sense of spirituality and calm to your life, which is equally true of the craft of macramé, which like all handicrafts has proven benefits for wellbeing.