A fantastic collection of beautiful illustrations including flowers, trees, birds, animals, figures and other classic, traditional and stylised images. These motifs, designs, patterns and borders will inspire craftspeople, artists, needleworkers, and all those interested in creating their own original ideas and projects.

The Ultimate Design Sourcebook for Crafters

Search Press

Christmas, the most exciting celebration of the year, is planned, thought about and looked forward to for weeks, even months, in advance.

Explore decorating ideas across 128 pages of outlines, photos, motifs and ideas covering Christmas decorating from A to Z. 

This book provides insight on how to plan the Christmas holiday throughout the year. Holiday times can flow more easily with fun and imaginative innovations throughout the year: collecting and pressing flowers, storing cones, making prints, cards and collages. Dozens and dozens of simple yet charming ideas for decorating, from paper chains to candles to table top centerpieces, ornaments and angels, are given thoughtful consideration in this book. Ample colorful photos, illustrations and patterns suppliment the text to visualize each theme perfectly. One of the better books on this topic, THE CHRISTMAS CRAFTS BOOK will delight anyone who wishes to add this near-perfect reference to their arsonal of ideas in order to help make the home and the season bright with winning home decorating ideas and handmade charm.

The Christmas crafts book

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Distributed by Sterling Pub., Co

The Complete Book of Patchwork & Quilting

Search Pr Ltd

This guide features a traditional white-on-white embroidery of the Hardanger region in Norway. It offers a wide variety of Hardanger ideas - classic and modern patterns and motifs for napkins, table-mats, runners, table-cloths, cushions, blinds, window pictures and bed covers. There are also ideas and full charts for a range of presents suitable for many occasions. The book is a comprehensive introduction to Hardanger embroidery, including the modern coloured variations, and at the same time a useful handbook. It includes practical tips from choosing fabric to how to wash and care for the finished work.

An Introduction to Hardanger Embroidery

This comprehensive guide to bead embroidery features more than 30 stunning and versatile projects. With over 440 step-by-step photographs, it brings bead embroidery within the reach of anyone who can thread a needle. Find out how to work tambour beading, beadpoint, padded beading, how to handle sequins and bugle beads, and so much more. Discover the best tools for the task and learn to identify different beads by their size, shape and finish. Full of hints, tips and historical insights, and all patterns are provided.

A-Z of Bead Embroidery: The ultimate guide for everyone from beginners to experienced embroiderers (A-Z of Needlecraft)

Country Bumpkin

The ultimate compendium of cake-decoration techniques, derived from the Modern Cake Decorator series. Cake Decorating for Beginners is a wealth of useful information for avid amateur bakers. Combining nuggets of valuable advice and popular projects from the Modern Cake Decorator series, the book leads the reader from the first stages to the last embellishments, including baking and icing your cake, and features a range of exciting, innovative but accessible techniques for decoration such as stencilling, using cutters, piping, painting and airbrushing for a polished, professional finish. The cumulative knowledge of authors Cassie Brown, Christine Flinn, Sandra Monger and Stephanie Weightman makes this book a must-have, go-to guide - the ultimate cake decoration compendium.

Cake Decorating for Beginners: 24 Stunning Step-by-Step Cake Designs for All Occasions

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Weightman, Stephanie

Flinn, Christine

Monger, Sandra

Baking

This is a practical and comprehensive guide for all oil painting enthusiasts, from the beginner to the experienced artist. Starting with advice on materials, painting from photographs, colour and composition, it goes on to describe basic and more advanced techniques such as wet on wet, wet on dry, scumbling, dry brush, sgraffito, impasto and glazing and the wonderful effects they can produce. For those wanting to avoid the use of smelly additives like turpentine or white spirit, there is a section on water mixable oils. For readers who would like to see quick results, there is a section on instant oil painting, or painting in an intuitive, spontaneous way. Easy to follow step-by-step demonstrations show the reader how to paint landscapes, sea and sky, still life and flowers, and each section is accompanied by a selection of inspirational paintings by the four featured artists, in a rich variety of styles.

Oil Painting Step-by-step

Arts & Photography

Sanders, Michael

Gregory, Noel

Horton, James

Lang, Roy

Graphic Design

This book covers many different styles and is packed with original designs which can be used and adapted to create a whole range of professional-looking items, whether you want finely drawn images, or boldly outlined patterns. As an endless resource it offers a striking selection of traditional, classic and contemporary ideas which can be outlined, coloured and embellished as you choose. Here you will find flowers, trees, foliage, birds, animals, figures, hearts, and much more.

Glass Painters and Silk Painters Pattern Book

History & Criticism

This book is perfect for all those embroiderers seeking ideas and inspiration for their work. It covers many different styles and is packed with original designs which can be used and adapted to create a whole range of finished pieces. As an endless resource it offers traditional and contemporary ideas which can be stitched and embellished with fabric paints, dyes, metallic threads, beads, appliqué and much more. Here you will find flowers, trees, foliage, birds, animals, figures, hearts and a host of inspirational ideas.

Embroiderers' Pattern Book

Covering many different styles, this guide is packed with original designs that can be used and adapted to create a whole range of professional-looking cards and journal pages. As an endless resource it offers traditional and contemporary ideas that can be colored and embellished with many different techniques, whether crafters prefer rubber stamping, collage, paper pricking, embossing, parchment craft, or any other papercraft. Designs can be used to decorate photographs, mementos, or special occasion cards.

Card Makers' and Scrapbookers' Pattern Book

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