These projects join two age-old skills: gourding and sewing. With simple techniques, you can combine gourds with a cloth body to make dolls or pupp...

Bring new direction and inspiration to your gourd crafts by adding motion! Gourd art is often stationary -- either elaborately decorated items of b...

Knitting is a booming pastime enjoying a resurgence of interest, spawning books, movies, a brisk online trade in wool and knitted goods -- even tra...

The title of this book embodies the author's attitude toward the collection that she presents, using vivid photographs to guide the reader through ...

The lifeline for all the writers collected here is the ocean's edge. Stephen Crane, Frank Stockton, Norman Duncan, Thomas Raddall, Alistair MacLeod...

Guilloché is the decorative engraving of a metal surface, such as watch cases, cufflinks, or the Fabergé Egg, with the use of a hand-powered device...

Meet the people behind Hagen-Renaker Pottery and enjoy their artistry as this book delves into a behind-the-scenes look at this unique and creative...

This book is jammed full of photographs, patterns, drawings, hints, details, notes and ideas concerning the Bolinger's playful and entertaining Hal...

Plane users, craftsmen who would like to become plane users, and plane collectors all will find a wealth of how-to information, backed with more th...

The Arts and Crafts Movement, a fascinating period in American decorative history, led to the unprecedented commercialization of fine crafts and th...

Elegant, hand-painted porcelain plates were popularly produced as decorative fine arts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Created by so...

This comprehensive new book celebrates over 550 top quality handbags by leading and unknown designers the world over, dating from 1759 to 2004, wit...

This practical book provides guidance in identifying and evaluating American brilliant cut glass. It is organized by patterns and illustrated with ...

This handbook serves as a practical guide for all phases of knot techniques—both practical and decorative in purpose. Much more than a reference wo...

In an era when there are countless competing claims on one’s attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture c...

Narrow bands of woven tape were important to Americans in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, before the days of elastic and zippers. Th...

The often surprising predicaments in which we find ourselves are personified in this wooden cowboy and his hapless steed. Cleve Taylor takes you st...

First-time artists and flower lovers will unlock their creative potential with this beginner-friendly guide to painting!Budding artists will learn ...

A must-have reference for every woodworker’s library, this well-illustrated book shows how to apply a hardwood edge and inlay to any curved tableto...

Over 210 beautiful color images display, and text describes, traditional quilt designs and their contemporary counterparts, all produced on modern ...

A year ago Helen Gibson shared her techniques for carving the human figures of the nativity story: Mary, Joseph, Jesus, the wise men, and the sheph...

Learn the history of heritage crochet techniques, and how to use them to enrich any crochet project. Clear instructions from master teacher Rita de...

A long-overdue tribute to a selection of women who have shaped history through herstory, this rich collection of 108 mixed-media fiber art pieces c...

Following the success of their first book, Sculpting Traditional Bowls, Rip and Tammi Mann bring this new book to those who love this ancient craft...