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Hand Bookbinding
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Hand Bookbinding

DIVExpert, illustrated guide to creating fine books by hand. Materials and equipment, basic procedures, rebinding an old book, more, plus 8 projects: dust jacket, folio, music binding, manuscript binding, 4 others. /div

The Watson Drawing Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

The Watson Drawing Book

  • Categories: Art

Brims with information on drawing techniques, media, and artistic examples. Technical information and tips on perspective, measure and form analysis, rendering light, shade, and shadow, portrait drawing, figure sketching, and outdoor sketching.

Hand Tools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Hand Tools

For those who would like to have the benefit of a woodworker's extensive experience, this illustrated guide explores the tools of the trade and how to use them. 450 line drawings throughout. 416 p.

Country Furniture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Country Furniture

An introduction to country woodworking traditions provides sample workshop designs, practical advice on tools and equipment, and an overview of woodworking methods that illustrates the step-by-step process of furniture design from a historical perspective. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators

  • Categories: Art

In this thought-provoking practical guide, a noted artist and educator demonstrates that learning to violate the rules of perspective (profitably) is as important for the practicing artist as learning the principles of perspective themselves. Only in this way can students free themselves from the constraints of tradition and find their own imaginative paths. However, it is vital that students first have a solid grasp of classical perspective before they can think about adapting it creatively. In presenting the principles of perspective drawing, Mr. Watson devotes a chapter each to step-by-step discussions of such topics as the picture plane, foreshortening and convergence, the circle, the co...

Waterfront New York
  • Language: en

Waterfront New York

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vibrant watercolors capture the New York City harbor and life on the waterfront in the 1920s and '30s.

The Village Blacksmith
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 150

The Village Blacksmith

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1968
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Describes the work of a blacksmith, including the development of techniques for working iron, the tools used, and the objects made on the forge. Also discusses the decline of this profession with the expansion of large scale industry.

Furniture Making Plain and Simple
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Furniture Making Plain and Simple

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987-02-01
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  • Publisher: Outlet

Presents twenty-five distinctive and versatile furniture projects, ranging from stools to tables and a four-poster bed, that can be made with solid wood and hand tools, along with simple illustrated construction directions

The Art and Craft of Handmade Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

The Art and Craft of Handmade Books

Innovative approach to bookbinding explains techniques that elevate handmade books into extraordinary artworks. Simple, well-illustrated directions explain how to make pop-up panels, pages that "explode" from the spine, slipcases, and more.

Mister Toad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 44

Mister Toad

Mister Toad loves his house inside a stone wall, until it is invaded by unwanted visitors.