Download or read book 20 Folk Bird and Fish Patterns written by Al Streetman and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk carving leaves less to the rules and more to the imagination, transforming plain everyday objects and materials into decorative accent pieces to brighten the home. Here are 20 patterns for bird and fish, with a simplicity that makes the carving process quick and enjoyable, and the final product charming and elegant. In full color Al guides the carver step-by-step though the carving of a bird and a catfish, with careful instructions for carving, painting and presenting each piece.
Download or read book Subject Guide to Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 3054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traditional Jewish Papercuts written by Joseph Shadur and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on papercuts, a long-overlooked aspect of Jewish folk art.
Download or read book Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 59 Summer 2012 written by Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue features: Power carving: quick, easy, effective Hiking sticks: with ball-inpcage design Simple and strong shellac finishes Easy-carve realistic eyes Make a dragon for your desk Carve more, sharpen less: our $90 solution
Download or read book Folk Embroidered Felt Birds written by Corinne Lapierre and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 20 beautiful folk embroidered felt birds to make and display Corinne Lapierre's beautiful folk embroidered birds are sure to delight everyone! They include a swan, a hen, a goose, a partridge, an owl, a dove, a peacock and a flamingo. Beautifully made in lovely soft colors, the birds are filled with toy stuffing and embellished with beads and folk-style surface embroidery in different-coloured threads. The stitches include chain stitch, feather stitch, fly stitch, running stitch, blanket stitch, French knots and satin stitch. The book includes lovely, hand-drawn step-by-step illustrations and there are same-size templates at the back of the book for all the birds. The birds all have optional ribbon hangers for display. These delightful birds make great gifts for all occasions and are quick, easy and fun to make with minimal outlay on materials.
Download or read book Signs of Life written by Angeles Arrien and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-08-24 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The soul never thinks without an image," claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded in our minds. Understanding the messages they convey and our attraction to them opens up a door to the secret workings of our inner selves and to a fuller appreciation of the art itself.As in her widely popular The Tarot Handbook, Arrien applies her background as a cultural anthropologist to the import human beings attribute to shapes. Examining her results, she has developed an effective tool to determine the connection between a person's preferences for certain shapes and the same person's inner, subjective states. In the course of using Arrien's book, individuals, parents, teachers, and therapists will experience the universal processes of growth embodied in images and myths. Life, we discover, is art, and through Arrien's fascinating journey in Signs of Life, we gain a new perception of the omnipresent patterns and symbols that surround us. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs
Download or read book Woodcarving Illustrated Issue 58 Spring 2012 written by Editors of Woodcarving Illustrated and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside this issue of Woodcarving Illustrated, you'll find: Features: *Rising from the Ashes *Motivated to Create *The Work of Rob Lucero Projects: *Carving Scenic Stamps *Carving Interlocking Hearts *Tequila Worm Bottle Stopper *Power Carving a Life-Size Whistling Swan *Carving a Cascading Ribbon Heart Pendant *Carving and Painting a Folk Art Rooster *Carving a Caricature Elephant *Creating a Pierced Relief Carving *Chip Carved Crosses *Folding Carving Bench Techniques: *Holding Your Work *Making Custom Colors
Download or read book The Ultimate Applique Guidebook written by Annie Smith and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you need to succeed with appliqué. 150 appliqué design elements-flowers, leaves, stems, vases, birds, bugs, and flourishes. Mix and match to design your own beautiful appliquéd blocks, quilts, and wearables. Layflat binding makes it easy to trace your favorite patterns. Includes 3 projects to get started, ranging from basic to complex. This complete source book guides you every step of the way in how to design your own appliqué patterns. Learn where to find new inspiration, read more about the history of appliqué, and build your skills in both hand and machine techniques. You'll revel in your new-found freedom to make your appliqué projects uniquely your own!
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Popular Mechanics written by and published by . This book was released on 1940-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.
Download or read book Symbol Pattern and Symmetry written by Michael Hann and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbol, Pattern and Symmetry: The Cultural Significance of Structure investigates how pattern and symbol has functioned in visual arts, exploring how connections and comparisons in geometrical pattern can be made across different cultures and how the significance of these designs has influenced craft throughout history. The book features illustrative examples of symbol and pattern from a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, from Byzantine, Persian and Assyrian design, to case studies of Japanese and Chinese patterns. Looking at each culture's specific craft style, Hann shows how the visual arts are underpinned with a strict geometric structure, and argues that understanding these underlying structures enables us to classify and compare data from across cultures and historical periods. Richly illustrated with both colour and black and white images, and with clear, original commentary, the book enables students, practitioners, teachers and researchers to explore the historical and cultural significance of symbol and pattern in craft and design, ultimately displaying how a geometrical dialogue in design can be established through history and culture.
Download or read book Visual Elements written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carving Fish Decoys written by James T. Cottle and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fish decoys were originally used by Native and Early American ice fisherman to lure food fish within range of their spears. Carved and painted to mimic the appearance and behavior of prey for pike and muskies, the hand-crafted fish decoy has become enshrined in American culture as a treasured form of traditional folk-art. Although the practicality--and sanity--of ice-fishing with spears is up for debate, traditional fish-decoys have seen a recent surge in interest and have become highly sought-after both as collectables and to be used under the ice. If you're someone who appreciates traditional American folk art and you want to learn to carve your own fish decoys, then this is the book for you. Life-long fisherman and decoy-carving instructor James Cottle makes it fun and easy to get started with detailed instructions, contextual information, history lessons, and tips on tools and techniques. This book contains 22 traceable patterns for decoys including trout, perch, bass, suckers, walleye, pike, muskies, sunfish, and walleyes, plus a mouse and a frog. Every step of the process is described clearly, with instructions that will guide you through cutting, carving, weighting, painting, and adding fins and tail to your decoy. Then it's ready to use--on your mantle or under the ice. With full color photographs of finished decoys and tips for developing your own painting style, this is the definitive guide to making your own traditional fish decoys.
Download or read book Prehistoric Textiles written by E. J.W. Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East. Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from palaeobiology and other fields, it shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed. Prehistoric Textiles made an unsurpassed leap in the social and cultural understanding of textiles in humankind's early history. Cloth making was an industry that consumed more time and effort, and was more culturally significant to prehistoric cultures, than anyone assumed before the book's publication. The textile industry is in fact older than pottery--and perhaps even older than agriculture and stockbreeding. It probably consumed far more hours of labor per year, in temperate climates, than did pottery and food production put together. And this work was done primarily by women. Up until the Industrial Revolution, and into this century in many peasant societies, women spent every available moment spinning, weaving, and sewing. The author, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, demonstrates command of an almost unbelievably disparate array of disciplines--from historical linguistics to archaeology and paleobiology, from art history to the practical art of weaving. Her passionate interest in the subject matter leaps out on every page. Barber, a professor of linguistics and archaeology, developed expert sewing and weaving skills as a small girl under her mother's tutelage. One could say she had been born and raised to write this book. Because modern textiles are almost entirely made by machines, we have difficulty appreciating how time-consuming and important the premodern textile industry was. This book opens our eyes to this crucial area of prehistoric human culture.
Download or read book Ethnobiology written by Darrell Addison Posey and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Designs of Chinese Indigo Batik written by Pu Lu and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Folk Art of Primitive Peoples written by Helmuth Theodor Bossert and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decoration and ornament, Primitive Art
