Author: North House Folk School
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565233072
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
With its graceful silhouette and distinctive white bark, the birch tree has been important to people wherever it has grown. This book covers all aspects of the North's most versatile tree—from its biology and ecology to its different uses, craft applications, and legends. Some of the lore revealed includes birch's role as a Welsh token of love and its mysterious connection with witches' brooms. In addition to learning about how the wood is used in baskets, shoes, and wood coverings, readers can also make more than 15 craft projects from instructions in the book, including folded bark baskets, carved ornaments, and turned wooden bowls.
Celebrating Birch
Author: North House Folk School
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565233072
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
With its graceful silhouette and distinctive white bark, the birch tree has been important to people wherever it has grown. This book covers all aspects of the North's most versatile tree—from its biology and ecology to its different uses, craft applications, and legends. Some of the lore revealed includes birch's role as a Welsh token of love and its mysterious connection with witches' brooms. In addition to learning about how the wood is used in baskets, shoes, and wood coverings, readers can also make more than 15 craft projects from instructions in the book, including folded bark baskets, carved ornaments, and turned wooden bowls.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565233072
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
With its graceful silhouette and distinctive white bark, the birch tree has been important to people wherever it has grown. This book covers all aspects of the North's most versatile tree—from its biology and ecology to its different uses, craft applications, and legends. Some of the lore revealed includes birch's role as a Welsh token of love and its mysterious connection with witches' brooms. In addition to learning about how the wood is used in baskets, shoes, and wood coverings, readers can also make more than 15 craft projects from instructions in the book, including folded bark baskets, carved ornaments, and turned wooden bowls.
Celebrating Birch
Author: North House Folk School
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565233072
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
With its graceful silhouette and distinctive white bark, the birch tree has been important to people wherever it has grown. This book covers all aspects of the North's most versatile tree—from its biology and ecology to its different uses, craft applications, and legends. Some of the lore revealed includes birch's role as a Welsh token of love and its mysterious connection with witches' brooms. In addition to learning about how the wood is used in baskets, shoes, and wood coverings, readers can also make more than 15 craft projects from instructions in the book, including folded bark baskets, carved ornaments, and turned wooden bowls.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565233072
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
With its graceful silhouette and distinctive white bark, the birch tree has been important to people wherever it has grown. This book covers all aspects of the North's most versatile tree—from its biology and ecology to its different uses, craft applications, and legends. Some of the lore revealed includes birch's role as a Welsh token of love and its mysterious connection with witches' brooms. In addition to learning about how the wood is used in baskets, shoes, and wood coverings, readers can also make more than 15 craft projects from instructions in the book, including folded bark baskets, carved ornaments, and turned wooden bowls.
Celebrating Birch, 2nd Edition
Author: North House Folk School
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565239746
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Delight your curiosity with the fascinating history and myths of this legendary tree while sharpening your woodworking skills with 20 beautiful projects including carved ornaments, turned bowls, bark baskets and more.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781565239746
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Delight your curiosity with the fascinating history and myths of this legendary tree while sharpening your woodworking skills with 20 beautiful projects including carved ornaments, turned bowls, bark baskets and more.
Celebrating Birch
Author: North House Folk School
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 9781565233072
Category : Birch
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If you think of birch as simply a wood to work with, think again. For centuries, this legendary tree has been vital to the survival of mankind and is celebrated by cultures around the world. In this stunning salute, the North House Folk School will delight your curiosity with the fascinating history and myths of the birch while sharpening your woodworking skills with 15 beautiful projects that include carved ornaments, turned bowls, bark baskets, and more.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 9781565233072
Category : Birch
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
If you think of birch as simply a wood to work with, think again. For centuries, this legendary tree has been vital to the survival of mankind and is celebrated by cultures around the world. In this stunning salute, the North House Folk School will delight your curiosity with the fascinating history and myths of the birch while sharpening your woodworking skills with 15 beautiful projects that include carved ornaments, turned bowls, bark baskets, and more.
Birch
Author: Anna Lewington
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140390
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Elegant, rich in history, and supremely useful, birches have played an extraordinary yet largely unrecognized part in shaping both our natural environment and the material culture and beliefs of millions of people around the world. Exploring birches’ many uses, the ancient beliefs and folklore we associate with them, their abiding portrayal in literature and art, and their biology, Birch presents a fascinating overview of the cultural and ecological significance of these versatile trees. For thousands of years, birches have given the people of northern temperate forests and beyond raw materials in the form of leaves, twigs, branches, bark, wood, and sap—materials used not simply to survive, but to flourish and express identity in practical and spiritual ways. Tough, waterproof, and flexible, birch bark has been used for everything from basketry and clothing to housing, transport, musical instruments, and medicines, and even to communicate and record sacred beliefs: some of our most ancient Buddhist texts and other historic documents are written on birch bark. Birches have not only shaped regional indigenous cultures—for example, in the form of the Native American wigwam and the birch bark canoe—they also continue to be of global economic importance today. Featuring an arbor of illustrations and rich analyses, Birch is an enlightening look into the history and possible future of these beautiful trees.
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140390
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Elegant, rich in history, and supremely useful, birches have played an extraordinary yet largely unrecognized part in shaping both our natural environment and the material culture and beliefs of millions of people around the world. Exploring birches’ many uses, the ancient beliefs and folklore we associate with them, their abiding portrayal in literature and art, and their biology, Birch presents a fascinating overview of the cultural and ecological significance of these versatile trees. For thousands of years, birches have given the people of northern temperate forests and beyond raw materials in the form of leaves, twigs, branches, bark, wood, and sap—materials used not simply to survive, but to flourish and express identity in practical and spiritual ways. Tough, waterproof, and flexible, birch bark has been used for everything from basketry and clothing to housing, transport, musical instruments, and medicines, and even to communicate and record sacred beliefs: some of our most ancient Buddhist texts and other historic documents are written on birch bark. Birches have not only shaped regional indigenous cultures—for example, in the form of the Native American wigwam and the birch bark canoe—they also continue to be of global economic importance today. Featuring an arbor of illustrations and rich analyses, Birch is an enlightening look into the history and possible future of these beautiful trees.
Celebrating Freedom
Author: David S. Rubin
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The first publication to examine the career of Willie Birch, an influential sculptor whose re-imagining of African and Southern folk art inspires both conversation and contemporary sculpture and design. 60 colour illustrations
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The first publication to examine the career of Willie Birch, an influential sculptor whose re-imagining of African and Southern folk art inspires both conversation and contemporary sculpture and design. 60 colour illustrations
The Nourishing Homestead
Author: Ben Hewitt
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603585516
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"...tells the story of how we can create truly satisfying, permanent, nourished relationships to the land, nature and one another" -- Back cover.
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 1603585516
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"...tells the story of how we can create truly satisfying, permanent, nourished relationships to the land, nature and one another" -- Back cover.
Celebrating the Labyrinth
Author: Gailand MacQueen
Publisher: Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1773434160
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Labyrinths and labyrintine borders have been around for a very long time. In fact, they have been used outside of formal religion as a ritual object to express spiritual values for at least 3500 years in countries all over the world, including China, India, the Holy Land, Ireland, Southern Europe, Scandinavia, pre-Columbian America, and England. They can be found at Neolithic and Sardinian and Hopi rock art sites, in Hindu temples and Taoist shrines, bordering Minoan frescoes, and in Roman mosaics. They have been incorporated into Roman Catholic and Episcopal cathedrals, Protestant churches, and in New Age retreat centres. They have been carved into rocks, turf, and wood; engraved in metal; laid out in stones; woven in reeds; set in tiles; painted and drawn. In other words, the labyrinth is a nearly universal form and comes as close as we can to an archetype. An archetype is a symbol that appeals to us at an unconscious level. We don’t have to struggle with its meaning intellectually. Its symbolic meaning is somehow ingrained in us, part of our very nature. As a result, it may appeal to us without our even understanding why. It is always risky to talk about the meaning of such an archetypal symbol. We know that it must carry a wealth of meaning to appeal to so many different sorts of people over such a long stretch of time. But we can, tentatively, explore some of its meanings if we stay aware that we can never really plumb all of its riches.
Publisher: Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1773434160
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Labyrinths and labyrintine borders have been around for a very long time. In fact, they have been used outside of formal religion as a ritual object to express spiritual values for at least 3500 years in countries all over the world, including China, India, the Holy Land, Ireland, Southern Europe, Scandinavia, pre-Columbian America, and England. They can be found at Neolithic and Sardinian and Hopi rock art sites, in Hindu temples and Taoist shrines, bordering Minoan frescoes, and in Roman mosaics. They have been incorporated into Roman Catholic and Episcopal cathedrals, Protestant churches, and in New Age retreat centres. They have been carved into rocks, turf, and wood; engraved in metal; laid out in stones; woven in reeds; set in tiles; painted and drawn. In other words, the labyrinth is a nearly universal form and comes as close as we can to an archetype. An archetype is a symbol that appeals to us at an unconscious level. We don’t have to struggle with its meaning intellectually. Its symbolic meaning is somehow ingrained in us, part of our very nature. As a result, it may appeal to us without our even understanding why. It is always risky to talk about the meaning of such an archetypal symbol. We know that it must carry a wealth of meaning to appeal to so many different sorts of people over such a long stretch of time. But we can, tentatively, explore some of its meanings if we stay aware that we can never really plumb all of its riches.
Celebrating Philadelphia's Artistic Legacy
Author: Michael W. Schantz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Exhibition catalogue for a show on view at Woodmere Art Museum from Sept. 21, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Exhibition catalogue for a show on view at Woodmere Art Museum from Sept. 21, 2019 - Jan 19, 2020
Woodworker's Guide to Handplanes
Author: Scott Wynn
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607654717
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A technically rich analysis and evaluation of every handplane style in the world and how to maintain them for optimum performance.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607654717
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A technically rich analysis and evaluation of every handplane style in the world and how to maintain them for optimum performance.