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Stitch 380 adorable animals and a few surprises with detailed, easy-to-follow instructions.
Let your imagination run wild with this collection of nearly 400 enchanting animal embroidery motifs. Using traditional embroidery, cross-stitch, and applique techniques, you can create a menagerie of motifs, borders, and alphabets unlike any you've seen before. Each stitched motif is, accompanied by detailed instructions for fuss-free execution. The collection...
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"Find out why medallions are the center of attention. 11 modern medallion quilts ranging from basic to advanced. Customize! Swap centers and borders to create your own design. Authors Janice Zeller Ryan and Beth Vassalo are joined by 9 other quilters who are creating waves in the modern quilt movement--Alexia Abegg, Karen Anderson-Abraham, Rebecca Bryan, Kerry Green, Erica Jackman, Christina Lane, Melissa Richie, Latifan Saafir, and Amy Sinibaldi"--back...
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Get the Summary of Ingrid Fetell Lee's Joyful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Joyful," Ingrid Fetell Lee explores the transformative power of color and light on human emotions and behaviors. She recounts how Edi Rama, the former mayor of Tirana, Albania, revitalized the city by painting buildings in bright colors, leading to positive changes in the community. Lee connects this to the universal happiness bright...
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"The Art of Tinkering is a collection of exhibits, artwork, and projects that celebrate a whole new way to learn, in which people create their own knowledge through making and doing, working with readily available materials, getting their hands dirty, collaborating with others, problem-solving in the most fun sense of the word, and, yes, oftentimes failing and bouncing back from getting stuck. Each artist featured in The Art of Tinkering goes through...
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"China has been a source of fascination for the West since the early days of the China trade, and the country's importance to the world grows with every passing day. China's renowned art objects and traditional manufactured products have long been sought by collectors--from porcelains and finely detailed paintings, silk fabrics, and furniture to the lacquered or ebony-and-bone chopsticks that are a distant relation to the ones you'll find in most...
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As long as people have lived on Earth, they've created art, and as long as people have played Minecraft, they've created art in the game! Both in real life and in Minecraft, art can include many different aspects: textiles, stained glass, music, paintings, writing, and far more. Students will investigate how they can use Minecraft to try out many forms of art for themselves. They'll also learn about how forms of art have changed throughout history...
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This book guides young readers through the process of identifying patterns. With simple text and closely matching pictures, this title is perfect for beginning readers.
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Kids love to be creative! Why not have them learn about Mexican culture at the same time? This book features fun and unique Mexican crafts that have been adapted in an easy, step-by-step activity format with pictures for a young crafter. There is an engaging project that everyone can enjoy creating, from an Aztec sun to a Cinco de Mayo poncho. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.
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Zentangle is the drawing art form taking the world by storm. Easy to do and immensely enjoyable, the Zentangle method can make artists of us all. To create artworks the Zentangle way, you need no drawing skills. The steps are easily taught in a few simple lessons In this follow up to her first book, the immensely successful Zentangle, Certified Zentangle Teacher Jane Marbaix explores the artistic possibilities of Zendalas and shows how beautiful and...
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Houseplants are everywhere--on Instagram, in the media, and in trendy homes all over the world. In Handmade Houseplants, expert crafter and tastemaker Corrie Beth Hogg offers a no-water necessary alternative: plants made from paper! This stylish guide includes step-by-step instructions for 30 of the most popular houseplants, from monstera and peperomia to fiddle leaf fig and philodendron. Additional projects show how to use paper plants for home décor,...
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Magnificent collection of floral patterns and stencil designs, created by one of the movement's finest artists, includes 120 images of graceful garden flowers -foxglove, hollyhocks, columbine, lilies, among others, and 39 stencil designs of blossoming trees, reeds, mushrooms, oak leaves, peacocks, and more.
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This excellent volume presents a dazzling assortment of copyright-free, full-color allover patterns. Carefully selected for their eye-catching appeal and suitability for practical use, the 361 patterns in this volume offer artists, designers, and craftspeople an extensive and convenient archive of colorful patterns for use in a virtually unlimited number of projects. Ranging from 15th- through 20th-century sources, the collection encompasses a rich...
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This collection of 72 full-page black-and-white Art Deco designs offers artists and craftspeople royalty-free, ready-to-use borders, frames, and motifs. Abstract geometric forms contrast with foliate and floral elements in dynamic designs. Useful in graphic arts, textile and upholstery design and more.
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60 rare plates of pictorial borders - all with space for text or a message - depict floral garlands, cupids, scrollwork, as well as finely rendered scenes of salon parties, amorous couples, ardent suitors, lovely maidens, and other eye-catching vignettes. Superb royalty-free illustrations for artists, graphic designers, decoupeurs, and other craftworkers.
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A familiar decorative detail that's found both inside and outside of Victorian homes, fretwork delights the eye with its graceful interlaced designs. This vintage sourcebook, reproduced from a rare edition, provides today's graphic designers and craftworkers with intricate plates of authentic patterns, including scrollwork, finials, banisters, interlaced vines, foral carvings and many other elegant fretwork designs. They're perfect for lending a quaint...
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The last and one of the most important of the great chromolithographic collections of the Victorian era, this magnificent volume first appeared in 1892. Spans a wide spectrum of ornamental styles: Greek moldings and pilaster designs; medieval roof ornamentation, "masonry" patterns; Renaissance coffer and panel ornamentation; Japanese fret bands; and more.
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Forty beautiful designs by one of Victorian era's most influential designers. Modestly priced, royalty-free collection of richly detailed patterns, faithfully reproduced from rare 1890s publication. Superb designs for wallpapers, chintzes, velveteens, tapestries, tiles, carpets, more.
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This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight - reproduced directly from a rare original edition - contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l'oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
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Contemporary adaptations of beautiful, traditional decoration, patterns: Art Nouveau, Paisleys, op art, plaids, stripes, geometrics, snowflakes, Mexican, Scandinavian, African, Persian, masks, more. Limitless uses - wallpapers, textiles, needlework, jewelry, other crafts. 104 plates, 4 in color.
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