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Book Description
This classic book, now completely revised and expanded, has long been a favorite of both teachers and students of tapestry weaving. Learn to weave tapestry on any kind of loom, vertical or horizontal. Take an intriguing journey to make an elaborate, but logical, tapestry sampler. The process is explained step-by-step and illustrated with over 300 beautiful color photographs and diagrams of tapestry techniques. Along the way, color theories applicable to tapestry are explained. You will be inspired by the ancient art form explored on these colorful pages. Treasures from museums and prominent contemporary artists relate the historic significance of tapestries and their limitless range of visual power. Learn how archival finishing and mounting your handwoven textile completes the project. A chapter on designing for tapestry provides tools for translating future concepts into compositions. Be a part of this ancient, yet completely modern, weaving tradition.
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Price: $59.95
Carol Russell
The Next Generation
Book Details
ISBN: 9780764327568
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Illustrations: 200 color & 125 b/w photos
Pages: 240
Binding: Hard Cover
Type: Hardcover
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Quilts of the Oregon Trail by Mary Bywater Cross
Between 1840 and 1870, thousands of women arrived in the Pacific Northwest by way of the Oregon Trail. This migration or "leave taking" was a life-changing experience, consuming the longest time and widest distance these women would travel to establish homes and farms and help build communities for themselves and their families. This fascinating book presents quilts as documents of history to discover the women and their life stories.
The book features 56 quilts made before, during, and after the journey west, as well as new information about the role of women in their communities. Each quilt is shown in full color, along with vintage photos of the makers plus information describing the quilt and the maker's family. Multiple appendices relate trail conditions, an analysis of the quilts, letters and narrations of the Trail experience, and available resource locations. Also includes a glossary, extensive bibliography, maps, and index. A wonderful resource for quilt enthusiasts, descendants, educators, and historians alike.
New Softcover
8 1/2 x 11
138 color pictures and 40 b/w
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Hooked Rugs Today by Amy Oxford
Book Description
A giant high-top sneaker embellished with golden scissors floats in a polka dot sky along with the surprising motto, "Run With Scissors." Hooked rug maker Jill Cooper explains, "The older I get, the more I don't follow 'the rules.' This rug was a way to share my belief that you must take every chance you can to enjoy all the beauty of life."
Taking chances with hooked rugs -- those cozy accessories of hearth and home -- is just what members of Vermont's Green Mountain Rug Hooking Guild do best. They tackle unconventional subjects, delight in using unheard of fibers, and love the challenge of designing their own contemporary work. At the same time, they are experts on "traditional" rugs and can replicate hooked pieces from the 1800s with uncanny precision. The guild's annual exhibit in 2006 featured more than 900 wonderful rugs, of which half are presented here and half in the companion volume. Feast your eyes on winners of the coveted Viewers' Choice Awards, rugs in Oriental designs, florals, abstracts, animals, architectural designs, and delicate miniature rugs smaller than a credit card. Rugs by one of the show's three honorees, Pat Merikallio, are featured here, as are rugs made by children, rugs illustrating "The Twelve Days of Christmas," and over 100 pieces depicting the theme "Strong Women." This book is a delightful, inspiring look at what can be accomplished with the versatile and exciting medium of hooked rugs.
Book Details
ISBN: 0764325787
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Illustrations: 456 color photos
Pages: 160
Binding: Soft Cover
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World Designs
Over 1200 dynamic, ethnic, decorative designs, from civilizations over 3000 years, are displayed here and on CD. Architecture, sculpture, painting, ceramics, mosaics, textiles, bronze, lacquer, leather, manuscripts, glass, metals, and typography were consulted from sources in Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Rome, China, Japan, India, Persia, Arabia, Turkey, Byzantinium, and Europe. The designs, most shown in beautiful color and exquisite detail, display Ancient, Gothic, Renaissance, and Classic styles. The accompanying text both describes each civilization and gives the sources for all the images, from their ruins, churches, museums, books, artifacts, and monuments around the world. This important collection will become a classic reference and source for designers of every type for years to come.
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Women's Fashions of the Early 1900's - National Cloak & Suit Co.
This book has great pictures of 1909, they are wonderful to study. It only covers 1909 and not the rest of the early 1900's during which there were lots of fashion changes. Right after this time period there were further changes so it's a good stopping point. Dover is great for those of us who are looking at vintage fashion!
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Victorian Fashions & Costumes from Harper's Bazar 1867-1898 - Stella Blum
Day costumes, evening wear, sports clothes, shoes, hats, other accessories in over 1,000 detailed engravings. Very thorough identification of styles, materials, colors by editor. "An endlessly entertaining book.
Product Details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications (April 1, 1975)
ISBN: 0486229904
Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
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About Buttons: A Collector's Guide by Peggy Osbone
Hard Cover. New/Fine. This is the most informative book available for the collector of buttons, written by a second-generation collector who has traveled the world over to expand her knowledge of this exciting collectible. The book presents over 10,000 buttons of all imaginable materials from 150 AD to the present in full color and relates their history and development around the world. Buttons have been the fastest growing part of the collecting world for the last few years, and this book tells you about the trends in this vast field of collecting. A number of buttons have gone up ten times in value in the past few years alone! This book is certain to become the "Bible" for the button enthusiast, dealer, or anyone who loves beautiful objects.
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Lace From the Victoria and Albert Museum by Clare Browne
Lace focuses on the world-renowned collection of exquisite hand-made lace at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. From the delicate geometric perfection favored by Elizabethan courtiers to the bold floral exuberance of the Victorian age, this comprehensive book covers the art of lacemaking as it has been practiced for more than 300 years. The 150 beautiful illustrations, including many close-up details, highlight the intricate techniques and designs.
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Persian Flatweaves by Parviz Tanavoli
This is the first comprehensive survey of the vast and fascinating subject of Persian flatweaves, and in particular floor covers. Previous publications on the subject have largely been dealers' restricted catalogues focusing on a narrow geographical area or the weavings of a particular group, or sections in more general books. This book thus fills a huge gap in the oriental carpet and textile literature.
Flatweaves have until recently been seen as merely the products and property of the poor. Since the late 1960s, however, growing attention has been paid to the best known type of flatweave, the gelim, revealing both its quality and variety. Other flatweaves, such as the palas, which is no less frequently found than the gelim, have scarcely been mentioned in any of the literature published so far, yet are shown in this work to be objects of great beauty and diversity.
The book is divided into two parts.
The first deals with the cultural background to the subject. Drawing onliterary sources as well as surviving examples, it describes the long historyof flatweaves, showing their relation to pileweaves.
The second part of the book deals with the different types of flatweave in turn: gelim, palas, weft-wrapped weaves, zilu and jajim. It also coversthe range of uses to which they were put.
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The Splendour of Antique Rugs and Tapestries by Parviz Nemati
For many centuries the designs that have been woven into Oriental rugs and tapestries have been indicative of the cultural and historical tradition of each rug-weaving area of the world. The Splendour of Antique Rugs and Tapestries celebrates this practice in sumptuous style.
Parviz Nemati believes tapestries and handmade carpets to be the most expressive works of art that have ever been produced and provides an extensive history of this resplendent tradition. The techniques of rug weaving are discussed and accompanied by chapters on each of the major types. The volume incorporates rugs of the Orient and of Europe as well as European tapestries of the 15th to 19th centuries.
The Splendour of Antique Rugs and Tapestries is a priceless reference tool for designers, collectors, investors, private buyers, or those interested purely because of the decorative qualities of the woven arts.
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Embroideries and Patterns from 19th Century Vienna by Raffaella Serana
Embroideries and Patterns from 19th Century Vienna by Raffaella Serena
Published by Antique Collectors' Club
ISBN No: 1 85149 283 6
Size: 8 1/2 x 11 ins
208pp 200 col.35 line diagrams
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Animal Embroideries & Patterns by Raffaella Seran
Animal Embroideries & Patterns
Raffaella Serena
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The discovery of the Nowotny collection in Vienna brings us a collection that is unique both in quality and quantity of the patterns. It is also a comprehensive record of some of the most refined and elegant creations of the nineteenth century.
In the history of embroidery, the nineteenth century occupies a very special place. Not only did it coincide with the most popular period in this time-honoured art but it also happened to be the century in which embroidery gave full expression to the ideal of femininity.
This book perfectly compliments Embroideries and Patterns of Nineteenth Century Vienna, Serena’s first publication concerning the Nowotny Collection. Like its counterpart, Animal Embroideries and Patterns surveys samplers, motifs and decorative patterns, but focuses solely on animal patterns.
The embroideries are perfectly reproduced in 221 flawless colour photographs and are accompanied by 24 technical drawings. Practical advice is offered which allows any keen embroidery enthusiast to reproduce some of the more spectacular designs.
Sales Points
Over 200 superb colour reproductions of original nineteenth century embroideries
Written by Raffaella Serena, a notable authority in the field of embroidery
Includes 24 technical charts with practical advice
Exceptional factual, practical text of particular interest to contemporary needlework enthusiasts
Also available by Raffaella Serena: Embroideries and Patterns from 19th Century Vienna
The Author
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Raffaella Serena, an expert in and collector of all applied arts, has extensively researched petit-point and cross-stitch history for more than twenty years.
Her interest in the applied arts led her to open the Bottega delle Arti Applicate in Milan where she holds embroidery classes. She is also the author of A Piccoli Punti.
Size: 279 x 216mm
Pages: 240
Illustrations: 208 col. 41
Antique Collectors' Club
ISBN: 1 85149 401 4
Price: $49.50
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AMERICAN ARTS AND CRAFTS TEXTILES BY DIANN AYRES & ETAL
American Arts and Crafts Textiles
By Dianne Ayres, Timothy Hansen, Beth Ann McPherson,
and Tommy Arthur McPherson II
One hundred years after it was born, the American Arts and Crafts style—made famous by designers such as Gustav Stickley and Greene & Greene—remains enormously popular. But while the architecture and furniture have received most of the attention, the colorful table linens, curtains, pillows, clothing, and other textiles have been largely overlooked. This lavishly illustrated volume will delight the eye and become the standard reference on these treasures from our past.
Especially valuable are the book’s rare photographs, some showing the textiles in period settings. There is a wealth of important historical information, and sections on needlework techniques and caring for antique textiles. The striking designs themselves and the interiors in which they are pictured will provide inspiration for decorators, designers, collectors, and needlecrafters alike.
200 photographs, 150 in full color,
248 pages, 10_ x 9_"
ISBN 0–8109–0434–9
EAN 978081090434–7
US$60.00 CAN$90.00
Dianne Ayres is a textile designer and founder of Arts & Crafts Period Textiles. She and her husband, Timothy Hansen, write and lecture widely on Arts and Crafts textiles and design. Ayres and Hansen are based in Oakland, CA. Tommy Arthur McPherson II is Director of the organization that administers Gustav Stickley’s Morris Plains, NJ, home, Craftsman Farms, as a National Historic Landmark. Beth Ann McPherson is Curator for interpretation at Craftsman Farms, where the McPhersons live.
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Art Deco Textiles by Charlotte Samuels
Art Deco Textiles
by Authors: Charlotte Samuels
Released: 01 March, 2003
ISBN: 0810966042
Hardcover
OVERSIZE HARDCOVER HARRY N ABRAMS INC 2003. C Tracing the evolution of the Art Deco style, the bold, dramatic, brilliantly colored & patterned fabrics pictured in this study encompass luxury silks, woven & embroidered textiles, and man-made synthetics, and showcase the work of desi gners such as Paul Poiret, Raoul Dufy, Rober Bonfils, Ruth Reeves, and Marion Dom - during the era of jazz, the Ballet Russes, flappers, and so much more. Illus., 150 in full color. 144p. ART-TEXTILES. ISBN:0810966042
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US Army Shoulder Patches & Related Insignia by W. Keller
United States Army Shoulder Patches and Related Insignia from World War I to Korea
Volume 3: Army Groups, Armies and Corps
William Keller & Kurt Keller
ISBN: 0764319213
Size: 8 1/2" x 11"
Illustrations: over 600 color photos
Pages: 200 pages
Other books on Uniforms and Medals: United States
$49.95 hard cover
Beginning in the Civil War, the U.S. Army sought to find an effective system to distinguish troops from different units. In the closing days of World War I, it finally arrived at a practical and desirable solution with the adoption of the shoulder patch or shoulder sleeve insignia. For more than eighty years, this often simple device, has been the source of pride and inspiration for servicemen everywhere. This all new collection (the third in a multi-volume set), with a gallery of more than 600 color and sepia toned illustrations of original insignia and period photographs, documents the evolution of these special insignia. From the period beginning with World War I to the Korean War era, you won’t find a more indispensable guide for the study and collection of U.S. Army shoulder patches. Collectors will especially enjoy the handy reference section for determining whether a patch was made by an ally, or a former foe. With special emphasis on theater made patches, these volumes are sure to be a collector’s paradise. Without a doubt, this series is the finest and most complete effort to date on the subject.
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