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A thoughtful, meditative guide to the ways creative textile art can soothe and comfort us during challenging times. Renowned British textile artists Cas Holmes and Deena Beverley, each well known for their richly textured, deeply evocative work in stitch, collaborate for the first time in this important and timely book. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of work from both artists along with other embroiderers and textile artists from around the world, Soulful Stitch documents a wide range of stitched responses to crisis, both personal and global. With invaluable advice on how to develop your own work in times of trouble, it explores: • How the restrictions and trials of everyday life ca...
This is not just 'another life coaching book'. No, really, bear with me. This is very, very different. What makes this book essential reading - and different to other self-help manuals - is that it distils my own crazy life experiences alongside the coaching tools and techniques I have honed from working with thousands of clients over more than 15 years and delivering genuinely life-changing results. This book presents my personal story and my own unique way of working in a friendly, approachable, 'you-can-do-it' way. Because you can. It is a practical guide that will help people to understand and address the specifics of their own thinking, which is the real key to realising how problems in...
Written by an avid and resourceful gardener, this book is packed with practical information, specific recommendations, and step-by-step guidelines for creating a lush country garden. Over 2,000 color photos.
Inspiration and practical tips on incorporating the everyday into textile art. In Embroidering the Everyday, acclaimed textile artist Cas Holmes explores the 'everyday' and the 'domestic', generating a wealth of inspiration and raw material to create textile work that resonates with time and place. Cas invites us to re-examine the world and use the limitations sometimes imposed by geographic area or individual circumstances as a rich resource to develop ideas for mixed media textiles in a more thoughtful way. With techniques and projects throughout, the book explores: How to be more resourceful with what we have to hand, including working with vintage scraps, homemade dyes and papers, and ev...
Where does the word "soap" come from? What are the active ingredients in soap? How was soap used in the Middle Ages? To uncover the hidden facts behind everyday things, explore the secrets of True Stories. True Stories reveals the surprising truth about a range of subjects. Discover everything you could wish to know, and some things you'll wish you didn't, about a huge range of topics!
Volume seven of a seventeen-volume, alphabetically-arranged encyclopedia contains approximately five hundred articles introducing key aspects of science and technology.
Meets the requirements of the Revised National Curriculum. Integrated and continuous assessment. Re-capping and reinforcement throughout. Homework and Assessment books that accompany the series contain guidance notes for assessments and provide photocopiable worksheets. Support for differentation. Up-to-date information.
When Johannes Gutenberg invented his printing press almost 700 years ago, he effectively changed the world.
Briefly introduces the process by which cheese is made from milk.
With over 110 color step-by-step photos, this book shows different styles of sills, from Mediterranean to cottage style to Alpine troughs, along with decorative container choices, from baskets and pots to unusual, improvised containers. Covers windowbox gardening, composting, attaching a windowbox, and more.