הוצאת Lark Books
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Everyone knows that felting is great for making fashionable garments—but with its bright colors, textures, and versatility, felt is the ideal medium for jewelry, too! Aimed at an audience of both general crafters and jewelry artists, this rich collection of 20 projects offers an enlightening ...
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For 75 years, the Penland School has attracted the greatest minds in crafting, and now its artists have created a real jewel of a collection. From the premier academy for fine crafting comes a third showstopper: a splendidly photographed guide that offers a combination of how-to man...
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No other volume has ever presented such a diverse and captivating collection of contemporary animal-themed ceramics. Juried by distinguished artist and educator Joe Bova, this magnificent gallery includes pieces from an international group of artists; the beautifully crafted works ran...
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The Figure in Clay: Contemporary Sculpting Techniques by Master Artists (A Lark Ceramics Book)
מאת Lark Books Nine master ceramic artists present their personal approaches to sculpting the human figure in a spectacular volume that's both technically illuminating and visually inspirational. The outstanding examples range from representational to abstract, diminutive to heroic. Nan Smith uses a range of ...
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Contemporary and unique, these handmade creations range from representational to abstract, from skillful realism to provocative surrealism—and they’re made from every conceivable material, including beads, gourds, and polymer clay. Juror Akira Blount, a pioneer in the “art doll” movemen...
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Every child has a favorite story, whether it’s about a little mermaid, an ugly duckling, or a brother and sister who meet a witch in a gingerbread house. And no matter how many times mom and dad tell that tale, it’s never enough; the young listener is hungry for more. So mayb...
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Never before has such a diverse collection of fine contemporary bracelets been assembled, showcasing hundreds of renowned international jewelers. Materials range from the most precious metals and gems to paper and plastic, and the varied techniques include forging, casting, weaving, and and sur...
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In the hands of an expert ceramist, the once-simple cup can become an extraordinary work of art--as these 500 magnificent examples so beautifully prove. The exciting pieces come from an international array of artists, each with a unique perspective. The stylishly varied collection has a little ...
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More artists make necklaces than any other form of jewelry—and these pieces are among the most exquisite ever created. Selected from over 5,000 entries, they range from unique chokers to artful collars. Some showcase precious metals and gems, while others use more unusual materials, including...
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In origami, a flat piece of paper is folded to create a dimensional object. Similarly, in traditional Japanese kirigami, paper is folded, cut, and unfolded to reveal complex patterns—like a paper snowflake. Here, author Hiroshi Hayakawa has ingeniously combined ... |
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The successful 500 series shines a spotlight on today’s most breathtaking ceramic sculptures. Selected from more than 8,000 entries by the distinguished art critic, historian, and professor Glen R. Brown—an elected member of the International Acade... |
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Including flame worked goblets, cast vases, and blown cups, this work presents 500 pieces of handmade glass objects from top artisans worldwide....
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A must-have for any young-professional who is creating that fresh contemporary look from scratch - and wants to build that perfect storage unit, this book features 20 modern, attractive and ever-so practical storage units ranging from eye-catching shelving to a wheeled trolley that fits easily under...
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Diverse, extensive, and incredibly beautiful, this awe-inspiring collection features the most magnificent rings ever. With designs that range from the traditional to the very avant-garde, each of the 1,000 examples is an exceptional work of art, finely crafted by the best contemporary jewelers....
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Sox rocks! Here comes the hottest collection of knitted socks yet, filled with 30-plus designs, a variety of techniques, tips, and playful trivia from those in the know. And it’s all in one flirtatiously fresh package. Aimed at the knitter who is super-passionate about socks...
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The Complete Book of Jewelry Making: A Full-Color Introduction to the Jeweler's Art
מאת Carles Codina This amazingly comprehensive guide to the jeweler’s art is a goldmine of information—big, beautiful, and with hundreds of color photos. It’s simply the handsomest, most complete sourcebook available, with its enlightening discussion of basic metallurgy (alloying, smelting, annealing,...
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Following The Art of Jewelry: Polymer Clay, this second book in the series takes an exciting look at one of the most popular materials in crafting today: paper. Artists have constantly pushed the envelope of this versatile medium; these pages showcase their innovative techniques along wi...
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Vickie Howell's Pop Goes Crochet!: 36 Projects Inspired by Icons of Popular Culture
מאת Vickie Howell Needlework dynamo Vickie Howell is back with a high-spirited, playful collection of goodies to crochet. Vickie Howell’s Pop Goes Crochet! pays creative tribute to popular culture past and present with 40 projects inspired by celebrities i... |
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Chain mail is one of the hottest jewelry trends out there; add beads and the style positively sizzles. Who could resist? Bestselling author and chain mail expert Dylon Whyte presents his time-tested, time-saving techniques with more than 30 breathtaking projects, ranging from ext...
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Poring through the beautiful images in this exquisite gallery of earrings is like stepping inside a jewelry store filled with remarkable pieces from the finest contemporary jewelers. Juried by award-winning designer Alan Revere, the earrings range from the classic to the avant-garde, and come f...
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Crocheted Wire Jewelry: Innovative Designs & Projects by Leading Artists (Lark Jewelry Book)
מאת Arline Fisch Over the past ten years, crochet has developed in an exciting new direction, as many artists have begun using wire to create unique jewelry. Arline Fisch, an internationally acclaimed jeweler and one of the foremost experts in adapting textile techniques for metal... |
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Altered art is the fastest growing craft trend today—but its practitioners can’t live by books alone: they long to expand their horizons and explore new directions. And this follow-up to the hugely successful Altered Art will fulfill their creative desires. It moves into ...
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Forget gold and silver—the hottest materials in jewelry-making are plastic and resin! And this exciting new entry in the popular Art of Jewelry series is an inspirational treat that introduces the major techniques, provides insights from contemporary artists, and showcases an arra...
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Contemporary knifemakers are far more daring than their counterparts from as recently as a generation ago: they’ve become masters of new techniques and technologies, experts in reinterpreting form and function to create sculptural works of art. Flip through this... |
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With easy-to-follow instructions and detailed photo sequences showing how to arrange lights and lighting accessories, this carefully structured course teaches all the fundamentals of portraiture, as well as a host of other creative techniques. It sets out everything the amateur needs to kn...
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Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT/EOS 350D (A Lark Photography Book)
מאת Michael Guncheon Canon's newest digital camera is going to be hot, hot, hot! It's high quality, reasonably priced, lightweight, and constructed to feel comfortable in the hand. And the many avid amateurs snatching up this great equipment will want to understand how to get the most of every one of its state-of-...
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The Art & Craft of Making Jewelry: A Complete Guide to Essential Techniques (Lark Jewelry Book)
מאת Joanna Gollberg
Packed with hundreds of colour how-to photographs, images of contemporary work, and time-tested tips - this spectacular guide will become an essential addition to every jeweller's library. All the basics are covered such as: sawing, piercing and soldering metal with advanced skills such as granulati...
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Marcia DeCoster's Beaded Opulence: Elegant Jewelry Projects with Right Angle Weave (Lark Books Beadweaving Master Class)
מאת Marcia DeCoster The newest addition to the Beadweaving Master Class series features two dozen spectacular jewelry designs from renowned master beading teacher Marcia DeCoster. DeCoster specializes in the popular right angle weave stitch, a... |
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Beading with Charms: Beautiful Jewelry, Simple Techniques (A Lark Jewelry Book)
מאת Katherine Duncan Aimone From a reconstructed vintage necklace that incorporates family heirlooms to a locket collar with trinkets and ribbon, these projects are literally charm-filled. This latest entry in the popular Beading with series goes way beyond the familiar charm bracelet; it features unique pieces tha...
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Donna Kooler, a renowned designer of gorgeous cross-stitch projects for more than 30 years, has now come up with nine colorful sampler patterns that celebrate home, nature, holidays, and more. Each one—from the charming and playful “Pet Friends” to the lush flower-filled “Beau...
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Juried by Fred Fenster, a distinguished presence in the field, 500 Metal Vessels features page after page of superbly crafted bowls, teapots, vases, chalices, urns, and other exquisite handmade hollowware. Made from diverse metals and techniques (forging, raising, casting, forming, solde...
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With more than 70,000 copies sold, Lark’s Handmade Tiles has delighted crafters everywhere, and whetted their appetites for more beautiful ideas. They’ll find just what they’re looking for in these dozen ceramic tile projects, which include everything from trivets to tabletops...
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Magic Lantern Guides Multimedia Workshops The world’s best photographic package!
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500 Pendants & Lockets: Contemporary Interpretations of Classic Adornments (500 Series)
מאת Lark Books One look at these breathtaking suspended neck ornaments, and it’s clear why Lark’s series of jewelry design books has become so wildly popular. Every pendant is a masterful work of art, whether it’s symbolic and purposeful (amulets, talismans, and charms) or purely decorative. Juried by...
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The Art & Craft of Stonework: Dry-Stacking, Mortaring, Paving, Carving, Gardenscaping
מאת David Reed More than 300 outstanding photos highlight the expressiveness of stonework from New Jersey to Nepal. “Well written and beautifully illustrated...wonderful. Shows readers a variety of techniques used to shape and place stones in their yards [and] ideas for creating paths and walls. Provides mu...
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Terry Taylor—the bestselling author of Altered Art—brings the same keen sense of imagination, design, and play to a classic favorite: paper dolls. These creatively constructed versions are all grown up and influenced by Altered Art’s wide-ran... |
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Delicate, luminous, beautiful: no wonder metal filigree components are a jeweler’s treasure. From antique brass and copper to shimmering silver and gold, they pair perfectly with a variety of beads. This latest entry in the bestselling Beading with series features 33 sophisti...
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The Good House Book: A Common-Sense Guide to Alternative Homebuilding Solar * Straw Bale * Cob * Adobe * Earth Plaster * & More (A Natural Home Book)
מאת Clarke Snell From Lark Books and Natural Home magazine—which has a circulation of 200,000—comes an illustrated, unique guide to building an earth-friendly home.To create a dwelling that’s both ecologically sustainable and attractive, Natural Home magazine is the place to go. With this exquisitely...
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Arline Fisch is the world's foremost expert in adapting textile techniques for metal and takes the art to an entirely new level. With a thorough overview of the basics, even beginners can make breathtaking wire jewellery. She explains the characteristics of wire, how to achieve the best results, plu...
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Cameras can capture what the eye can’t perceive: the presence of infrared light. And shooting infrared (IR) with a digital camera makes it easier than ever to create distinctively dreamlike, high-contrast black-and-white pictures. Using a wealth of stunning images, this thorough res...
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From press-molded pieces to carved works showcasing spectacular surface treatments, these magnificent tiles will inspire beginners and professionals, as well as collectors and enthusiasts. Some of the larger handcrafted displays here were made to decorate public and private spaces; others use s...
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- Will help owners of this just-released Canon model master the camera’s new full 1080p HD video recording mode along with the other outstanding features on this highly innovative compact, full-frame digital SLR camera. |
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Metal clay is the most exciting material in jewelry design today: the procedures for molding and shaping are simple, the tools few, and the results stunning. CeCe Wire, a leader in the field, details all the newest innovations and clays, as well as the basics for beginners. She includes every f...
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Kids' Crafts: Polymer Clay: 30 Terrific Projects to Roll, Mold & Squish (Lark Kids' Crafts)
מאת Irene Semanchuk Dean "[An] attractive book...30 clever projects will appeal to both boys and girls....A great resource."--School Library JournalPliable, colorful, and bake-in-the-oven polymer clay is the perfect material for youngsters. With this terrific just-for-kids manual from a renowned polymer clay art...
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Modern Jewelry from Modular Parts: Easy Projects Using Readymade Components (Lark Jewelry Book)
מאת Marthe Le Van Everyone can make stylish contemporary jewelry with ease! This beginner’s guide holds the key: simply take widely available manufactured metal parts (hollow tubes, solid rods, precut perforated sheets) and arrange them in repeating patterns that develop into complex designs. The techniques—...
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John Murphy's sock creations have been featured in such publications as the Washington Post and Readymade magazine. Crafters with a sense of humor, a taste for the weird, wacky, and way-out, and a hunger for the outrageous will find themselves captured by this wildly creative menagerie of s...
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The Penland Book of Ceramics: Master Classes in Ceramic Techniques (A Lark Ceramics Book)
מאת Lark Books With classes in more than ten media, instruction by only the finest practitioners, and an atmosphere of friendly exchange between artists, Penland is the place for crafters to improve and broaden their skills. Here, ceramists will discover technical and inspirational resources from the mas...
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Building Green, New Edition: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs (Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative)
מאת Clarke Snell The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, it’s now printed on recycled paper with agri-base... |
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Experience the pleasure of crafting with precious metals, and of using your creativity and skills to produce objects of great beauty. Hundreds of color photographs illustrate the procedures in rich detail, and display a breathtaking assortment of pieces by talented artists. Each innovative proj...
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The art of glass beadmaking has exploded in popularity during the past decade—and these awe-inspiring examples, exquisitely fashioned by 40 of the world’s top creators, reveal exactly why. Whether showcasing faces, animals, or flowers, these beads exhibit incredible detail and gorgeous colo...
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Every quilter will want to possess this stunning anthology, which features 10 years worth of the most innovative pieces chosen for the Quilt National biennial exhibition--the top showcase for modern quilt artists. Acclaimed author Robert Shaw, a widely recognized expert on American folk art, in...
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From our beloved baby “blankie” to the cozy sweater that warms us, fabric touches us at every stage of life. So it’s no surprise that today’s crafters love to work with it...and that we love to accessorize with it. Stitched Jewels presents... |
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For the very first time, renowned international photographer and bestselling author Michael Freeman reveals all the insider secrets that professionals keep for themselves alone. Everyone from enthusiastic amateurs to seasoned experts will learn plenty of the tried-and-true, field-tested te...
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A fast-growing craft trend, handled by experts.Choose an object—a cigar box, playing cards, an old album cover—and use it as a creative starting point to make beautiful and entirely new items to display and use: that’s “altered art,” and it’s the fastest-growing trend in the ...
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Brilliance! Masterpieces from The American Jewelry Design Council (Lark Jewelry Book)
מאת Cindy Edelstein This sensational design book showcases America’s most gorgeous and inventive art jewelry! For over a decade, the elite invitation-only American Jewelry Design Council (AJDC) has sponsored an annual project: every member creates an original piece based on a given theme. With imagination and ...
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Felted fabric is versatile, useful, and fun to work with—and the bold hues of its smooth surface perfectly complement embroidery, allowing the yarn, floss, or thread to really pop. Craft masters Donna Kooler and Linda Gillum bring together these two hot trends in a colorful volume filled with...
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500 Plastic Jewelry Designs: A Groundbreaking Survey of A Modern Material (500 Series)
מאת Lark Books The popular 500 series takes its hippest, most fun approach yet, with an intoxicatingly vibrant and technically diverse collection of contemporary jewelry. Juror Susan Kasson Sloan has put together a groundbreaking survey of the best work being done with th... |
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Magic Lantern Guides Multimedia Workshops The world’s best photographic package!
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Magic Lantern Guides and DVDs have always provided the very best, most in-depth coverage of a camera's ins-and-outs. Now, there's even more "magic" on the market for photographers: the MAGIC LANTERN MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP. It's a complete class in digital photography with a D-SLR camera one that enable...
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Fiber artists, crafters, quilters, and sewers have all embraced the art of needle felting—the popular technique of using a barbed needle and wool roving to create sheets of felt or embellish fabric. This colorfully illustrated guide shows just how easy it can be to g... |
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These chairs aren’t made just for sitting down! They’re pieces of art meant to delight the eyes, stretch the imagination, and occasionally tickle the fancy. From classic forms to groundbreaking creations from modern innovators, this newest entry in the 500 series presents a dazzling collect...
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Asian-inspired lampshades embellished with flying fish. Canvas sneakers decorated with pink and white swirls. A pretty pillow adorned with a sleeping bunny, sweetly curled up. All it takes to create these appealing projects—or add charming embroidered touches in no time at all—are a fe...
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Two entrees in the digital SLR market from Pentax, in one Magic Lantern Guide. Both of these easy-to-use, budget-friendly cameras are packed with loads of features, including: a 6.1 megapixel sensor, large 2.5” LCD monitor, Auto Picture modes, Shake Reduction image stabilization (K100D...
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What awesome craftsmanship appears throughout this unique volume—the zenith of an art that marries the world’s most exceptional gems with exquisitely-honed metal designs. Approximately forty of the world’s top jewelers present expertly-fashioned settings that embrace a diversity of styles...
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Pearls have long stood for classic beauty and elegance, and this collection of 30 exquisite projects, the latest in the bestselling Beading with series, continues that time-honored tradition. It features sophisticated and stylish designs by a pool of talented artists, most using sim...
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Two hot topics in one book—crochet and jewelry! Here’s something special for crocheters who want to go beyond hats and afghans and for jewelry makers looking for new and adventurous ways to create jewelry. The 40 projects come from the finest contemporary crochet artists, and range from sle...
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Twenty different crafting methods—countless breathtaking beads, all made from easy to work with polymer clay! The varied techniques in this comprehensive skill-building book—many of which have never before been published—range from hand-formed tubes, spheres, wedges, teardrops, and baguet...
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This is the essential who, what, when, where, and why of hand tools! Not only is the equipment itself beautiful, it’s the classic and most pleasurable way to work with wood. Hundreds of photographs, accompanied by explanatory illustrations, escort you through the traditional woodshop, ...
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Every year Penland, the innovative school where crafters from around the world come to hone their skills, offers a master class in the art of bookmaking that’s simply without equal. Fortunately, it’s available to everyone, thanks to this technical and inspirational guide that showcases ten ...
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Bugle Bead Bonanza: A Sparkling Collection of Jewelry Projects (Lark Jewelry Book)
מאת Jamie Cloud Eakin Popular beader Jamie Cloud Eakin uses bugle beads to make her fun, fantastic pieces, and she’s showing other crafters how to do it, too! The techniques—from weaving into beadwork to using stop beads—are wonderfully simple, and explained in an easy-to-follow basics section. Each...
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Plates and chargers can serve as more than just places to put your food: they can be glorious art to show off on a table, sideboard, or hutch. These 500 spectacular pieces chosen by esteemed juror Linda Arbuckle range from the utilitarian yet beautifully glazed plate to dramatically decora...
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Anyone who buys this superb Sony semi-professional camera will want to try out every one of its awesome features. The 12.24 MP Exmor™ APS-C size CMOS imager, with on-chip noise-canceling before and after A/D conversion, provides over 12 million pixels. A Dynamic Range Optimizer with Advanced ...
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Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS Rebel XSi EOS 450D EOS Rebel XS EOS 1000D Multimedia Workshop
מאת Lark Books Magic Lantern Guides Multimedia Workshops The world’s best photographic package!
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Rustic Garden Furniture & Accessories: Making Chairs, Planters, Birdhouses, Gates & More
מאת Daniel Mack Rustic woodworking is a technique that continues to attract both novice and experienced craftspeople. Through 30 attractive projects of varying difficulty, two experts in this traditional art teach the pleasures of working with sticks, twigs, and other found wood. No experience is required to c...
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"Making Bead and Wire Jewelry" sold more than 67,500 copies - and because one great success deserves another, here's a second chic collection featuring the very best in contemporary design. Created by today's finest artisans, these pieces all showcase the incredible diversity of interesting beads an...
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It's a doodle book. It's a notebook. Actually, it's both.Great for ages 10 to 110, this doodle notebook is anything but the usual cute and quaint kind. It's subversive, irreverant, and most of all FUN! That's why every kid (and many adults too!) will want this fool-the-teacher notebook t...
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With this comprehensive skill-building guide at hand, jewelers of all levels can craft 30 stunning one-of-a-kind beads in shimmering silver, copper, brass, and other metals. An introduction to metalworking provides the basics, followed by creative design ideas and techniques specific to metal b...
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Now, digital newcomers hoping to turn their ordinary photographs into eye-catching art finally have a book created just for them! This very accessible prequel to Airey’s more advanced Digital Photo Art expertly guides beginners through the wonders of digital image-making, and give...
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Presents a collection of ceramic pitchers. This work offers 500 images that include almost everything from handbuilt to wheel-thrown, practical to sculptural, round to square....
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Baby Photography NOW!: Shooting Stylish Portraits with Your Digital Camera (A Lark Photography Book)
מאת David Nightingale This first book in an exciting new series offers a lively and contemporary re-examination of a classic subject. It’s geared to young photographers who are having fun with their first digital SLR cameras, and want results that look like the stylish photos in hip magazines and ads. Filled with ...
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“Elegant contemporary jewelry....What artist-author Wells and her 30 colleagues conjure up in more than 30 bracelets, earrings, and necklaces is nothing short of breathtaking. All the projects can be readily mastered by beginners....One hundred percent of the fundamentals, from graphic illust...
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Celebrate kids and their special talents. There's nothing kids like more than putting pencil, crayon, or chalk to paper and drawing their favorite things. But mastering technical skills isn't always easy for them. So visual artist and instructor Jennifer Lipsey has creat...
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Children love being on vacation or visiting friends and family—it’s just the boring hours traveling on the plane, train, bus, or automobile that they hate. But even long journeys will fly by with this jam-packed collection of activities. In fact, it will keep kids so busy they w...
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Creating with strings, fingers, rollers, straws, and other super techniques: no wonder this entry in Lark's fabulous new art series will have kids saying "I love to paint!"It's amazing what even the littlest ones can achieve when they practice on projects that feel like pure...
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Aimed at serious photographers, this lavishly illustrated guide takes a close look at every detail of lowlight photography. Michael Freeman (The Complete Guide to Digital Photography, Mastering Digital Black & White Photography) offers in-depth analysis of the many techniques phot...
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It’s easy being green! Kids have enormous potential to affect change, and this enlightening book harnesses children’s natural energy, enthusiasm, optimism, and drive to make a difference in the world. Young eco-activists will feel empowered as they begin doing... |
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Photoshop users who haven’t been working with plug-ins haven’t been taking full advantage of the program’s creative and technical potential, from advanced digital art and photo effects to support for varied file types. But finding the ri... |
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Magic Lantern Guides Multimedia Workshops The world’s best photographic package!
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Pet Photography NOW!: A Fresh Approach to Photographing Animal Companions (A Lark Photography Book)
מאת Paul Walker For animal lovers, a pet is a member of the family—but one that is much harder to photograph. Capturing an animal’s charm and personality can be an incredibly challenging (even frustrating) exercise, but Pet Photography NOW! makes the job easier. It shows professionals and amate...
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Simple Contemporary Quilts: Bold New Designs for the First-Time Quilter
מאת Valerie Van Arsdale Shrader More and more needleworkers are rediscovering quilting—and these newcomers want a youthful, fresh, and fashionable approach to the craft. Here it is: a comprehensive introduction to quilting with a thoroughly modern attitude, plus creative ideas and time-saving tips. Of course, it presen...
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The Weekend Crafter: Woodcarving: 20 Great Projects for Beginners & Weekend Carvers
מאת John Hillyer Woodcarving is fun, any way you cut it! Whether your interest lies in chip, incised, pierced, relief, sculptural, or architectural carving-or if you'd just like to whittle your weekend away-here's what you need to gain self-confidence in the craft. From a review of tools and techniques to advic...
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Creative Juice (DIY): 45 Re-Crafting Projects to Make with Recycled Stuff (DIY Network)
מאת Cathie Filian Wait—don’t throw out that old hubcap: it will make a great chandelier! That’s the thinking behind Creative Juice, a crafty do-it-yourself guide to recycling ordinary items and turning them into extraordinary art. Every clever idea comes from the wildly imaginative minds of crafting...
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All you need is a shovel, a hammer, small stones, a few feet of land, and this book: master stonemason David Reed guides motivated homeowners through every step of dry-laid stonework. Have a sloped garden? Build a beautiful retaining wall with built-in benches and flowers growing out through th...
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Kids love comic strips…and now they can devise their own imaginative illustrations and stories with the help of a professional artist who designs for the Cartoon Network. He provides advice on the basic tools and materials; demonstrates how to construct bodies and faces; explains how to ...
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This is by far the most attractive volume on ceramic bead-making anywhere! Crafters will eagerly snap it up to learn how they can create a variety of striking projects using low-fire clay and a rainbow of colorful glazes. The basic techniques include hand-rolling, cutting, stamping, press-moldi...
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Bow WOW! Man’s best friend deserves a home of his own. Build one good enough to prove to your puppy that being in the doghouse can be a wonderful thing. The experts on the Barkitecture series have two dozen fabulous options, plus lots o... |
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Quilters have moved beyond the traditional boundaries of their art, embellishing their work with layers of beads, embroidery, and surface design. They—as well as other fiber artists and sewers—will warmly welcome this idea-packed resource with 24 projects that will open up a new realm of cr...
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Imagine a material that looks and feels like clay and yet, when fired, becomes pure, solid gold and silver! That’s metal clay, and here are the fabulous techniques and instructions, lavish photos and projects that will open up endless creative possibilities to every crafter. With this ve...
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