Add sparkle, movement, and visual pleasure to your life through the art form of tassel making. Filled with new and exciting ideas to create a flurry of tassels, this guide begins with an overview of how to make a simple tassel, including a few fancy knots and cords. Then it goes on to explore innovative techniques that you can use to personalize your tassels, including how to incorporate texture, color, ornaments, ribbons, fabric, and much more. The author lives in Woodside, CA. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

Creative Art of Tassels: The Creative Art of Design

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Welch, Nancy

Crafts & Hobbies

Sterling/Chapelle

Add tactile interest to everything-from drapes to handbags, bookmarks to hairpins--and spark your creativity, too! Tassels bring movement and visual pleasure to your home, your fashions, and your life. With these new, exciting, and artistic ideas, you'll feel inspired to craft dozens of different styles, from the simplest to those with spectacular skirts and ornaments, like colorful wrapped rings. An overview (with plenty of pictures and diagrams) shows how to make a basic tassel from molds, including a few fancy knots and cords. But, what will really catch your eye are the innovative techniques for personalizing tassels with texture, color, ribbons, fabric, and much more. Bedazzling variations include shisha mirror embroidering, lovely intricate picot edging, and glistening beads, bangles, and bells.

Simply Tassels: The Creative Art of Design

Creative Paper Art: Techniques for Transforming the Surface

You'll never look at a piece of paper the same way again! From shopping bags and newspaper to materials from art supply and commercial paper stores, any piece of paper can be transformed into a work of art. Using readily available materials--many of which you probably have on hand--you can create the most extraordinary decorative effects. Learn more than two dozen exciting techniques, including sponging, spattering, smoke smudging, faux finishes, marbling, suminagashi, paper dyeing, gilding, webbing, and creating dimensional effects. Then discover unique ways to showcase your creations from an accordion fold book to gift boxes and bags to jewelry made from the tiniest scraps. Throughout this full-color idea and instruction guide, the work of talented paper artisans offers infinite inspiration. Since paper is one of the least expensive craft materials, it offers a nearly endless opportunity to experiment and explore. So get ready to have some fun! 128 pages, 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK

Creative Paper Art: Techniques For Transforming The Surface

Sterling

From shopping bags to newspaper, any piece of paper can be transformed into a work of art. Learn more than two dozen exciting techniques, from sponging, spattering, and smoke smudging to faux finishes, suminagashi, and gilding. Throughout this full-color guide, the works of talented paper artisans offer infinite inspiration.

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[This book] is a must for those committed to voicing the personal conflicts writers experience and to turning those confusing and sometimes dismaying moments into productive sites for questioning textual relations. - Journal of Advanced Composition</ul>
In Getting Restless, Nancy Welch calls for a reconception of what we mean by "revision," urging compositionists to rethink long-held beliefs about teacher-student relations and writing practices. Drawing primarily on feminist and psychoanalytic theories, she considers how revision can be redefined not as a process of increasing orientations toward a particular thesis or discourse community, but instead as a process of disorientation: an act of getting restless with received meanings, familiar relationships, and disciplinary or generic boundaries--a practice of intervening in the meanings and identifications of one's text and one's life. Using ethnographic, case-study, and autobiographical research methods, Welch maintains two consistent aims throughout the study: <ul>
<li>to show how composition teachers can create for themselves and for their students environments that encourage and support revision as restlessness and as a process of intervening in a first draft's thoroughly social meanings and identifications </li> <li>to demonstrate how composition's process legacy is revitalized when we understand that our means to form and change communities- to form and change constructions of authority--are located in revision. </li> </ul>
In achieving these ends Welch examines three academic sites: a campus writing center, undergraduate writing classrooms, and a summer workshop for K-12 teachers. This book will appeal to a wide audience, including classroom and writing center teachers, historians and theorists in composition and rhetoric, feminist theorists, and those engaged in literacy studies, teacher education, and connections/tensions among teaching, writing, and psychoanalysis.

Getting Restless: Rethinking Revision in Writing Instruction (Crosscurrents : New Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition)

Literature & Fiction

Heinemann

Writing a dissertation can be joyful and reaffirming, but it can also feel like wandering into a labyrinth where dimly lit pathways twist and turn toward disaster. What is a dissertation supposed to look like? What is a dissertation supposed to do? Who is supposed to-or allowed to-decide? The Dissertation &amp; the Discipline brings together both dissertation writers and advisors to grapple with these questions and formulate answers. Each chapter highlights the intersection of power and politics in this high-stakes rhetorical scene while exploring and describing a range of productive strategies. Critiquing standard narratives and traditional assumptions, The Dissertation &amp; the Discipline offers a radical critique of dissertation writing and advising-and challenges us to consider how these practices can be deployed to expand our understanding of the very nature of Composition Studies.

The Dissertation & the Discipline: Reinventing Composition Studies

Moore, Cindy

Latterell, Kate

Carter-Tod, Shelia

History & Criticism

How can our students find - or make - spaces where their ideas and arguments can be heard? Living Room takes up this question in an age defined not only by YouTube and My Space but also the conversion of public streets to festival marketplaces, the creation of cordoned-off and tucked-away “free speech” zones, and the state sanctioning of ethnic profiling. In Living Room Nancy Welch traces the erosion of publicity rights to post-9/11 legislation and, more troublingly, to nearly thirty years of neoliberal privatization of space, institutions, and resources - even the very idea of who has the authority to speak and argue, especially in the political and public arenas. Joining the field's reinvigorated interest in public writing and rhetorical history, Welch argues that if we're to explore with our students when, where, and how they can deliver arguments that matter, we need to look to the lessons of earlier generations. Especially in the 20th century's struggles for labor and civil rights - the struggles that won “living room” rights for ordinary people in the first place - we find consequential (and sometimes unruly) arguments: workers shutting down production lines and cash registers, students disrupting segregated lunch counters, AIDS-HIV activists dying-in across a Wall Street intersection. By examining these and other vibrant models of rhetorical action in our classrooms, we can help our students better understand how to deliver effective arguments in the most restrictive of circumstances and how to most effectively shape their arguments using genre, collaboration, audience, tone, and style. Living Room vigorously critiques our privatized era “of shopping malls and Clear Channel; of state-sanctioned ethnic profiling and militarized responses to public protest; of private economic interests colluding to shape public policy on everything from energy and interest rates to health care and access to the airwaves.” Read Living Room and heed Nancy Welch's call for a reinvigorated rhetoric that connects your composition classroom with a contentious, lively history of writing as social action.

Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

The Road From Prosperity: Stories

Literary

Southern Methodist Univ Pr

Tassels: The Fanciful Embellishment

Tassels can be anywhere from clothes to menus to curtains to costumes. This book shows the reader how to creat and use tassels in an abundance of ways. Photographs from Nancy Welch's collection accompany her step-by-step instructions and drawings.

Lark Books

Ten More Things About Us

Parenting & Relationships

Black Lawrence Press

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