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The Joy of Handweaving
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 351

The Joy of Handweaving

This is the first paperback edition of a manual well known to weavers for its great thoroughness, clarity, and value to beginning and professional weavers alike. The author has drawn upon many years of experience as a teacher and writer in preparing this practical text of basic weaving techniques and projects from the simplest to the extremely complex. Each topic of weaving theory and technique is presented with its practical applications in mind. Within the first thirty pages, readers learn enough to complete their first weaving project, a bookmark, and this leads directly to the weaving of rugs on a loom, the process of weaving on a two-harness loom, threading plain weave from a draft, mak...

Making Wooden Toys
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 35

Making Wooden Toys

Illustrated instructions for making twelve simple wooden toys including a freight train, cargo ship, helicopter, and others.

Hedonizing Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Hedonizing Technologies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009-08-01
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Rachel P. Maines’s latest work examines the rise of hobbies and leisure activities in Western culture from antiquity to the present day. As technologies are "hedonized," consumers find increasing pleasure in the hobbies’ associated tools, methods, and instructional literature. Work once essential to survival and comfort—gardening, hunting, cooking, needlework, home mechanics, and brewing—have gradually evolved into hobbies and recreational activities. As a result, the technologies associated with these pursuits have become less efficient but more appealing to the new class of leisure artisans. Maines interprets the growth and economic significance of hobbies in terms of broad consumer demand for the technologies associated with them. Hedonizing Technologies uses bibliometric and retail census data to show the growth in world markets for hobby craft tools, books, periodicals, and materials from the late 18th century to today. The book addresses basic issues in the history of labor and industry and makes an original contribution to the discussion of how technology and people interact.

The Making of a Milliner
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

The Making of a Milliner

"A great introduction for those interested in millinery, with easy to understand instructions and a variety of patterns for constructing different types of hats." — Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System Design the hat of your dreams with the guidance of an expert milliner. Jenny Pfanenstiel presents beautifully rendered, full-color tutorials that explain the basics of hat-making, from material selection to stitching and finishing. Seven designs, suitable for beginners as well as experienced hat makers, include cloche, cowboy, and straw-brimmed hats, as well as a variety of fascinators. Helpful suggestions range from how to measure your head and how to choose the style that best complem...

The Gift Wrapping Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

The Gift Wrapping Book

This guide offers 150 inspirational and practical gift-wrapping suggestions plus more than 25 projects that employ a wide variety of techniques. Step-by-step instructions and color photos show how to beautify any gift.

Weaving the Sermon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 176

Weaving the Sermon

Using images connected with the art and craft of weaving, Christine Smith discusses the special vision that women bring to the task of preaching. She looks at the significance of feminist theology, psychology, and philosophy in terms of their impact on the preaching of all men and women. Among other topics, she considers the authority of the preacher, God language, and global feminism.

Making Authentic Shaker Furniture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Making Authentic Shaker Furniture

Over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic Shaker designs: cradle, dry sink, trestle table, lap desk, rocking chair, many more. 262 halftones. 140 black-and-white line illustrations.

National Union Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

National Union Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1978
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Includes entries for maps and atlases.

A Handbook of Weaves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

A Handbook of Weaves

Lucid text and 1,875 illustrations offer a thorough survey of the field, from simple draft and plain weaves to more complicated fancy weaves. Coverage includes irregular, double-stitched, and filling satins; basket and rib weaves; steep, undulating, broken, offset, corkscrew, interlocking, herringbone, and fancy twills; honeycomb and lace weaves; and hundreds more.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1282

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)