Author: Morgyn Geoffry Owens-Celli
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9781579900786
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Make amazing natural projects ranging from simple but lovely plaits to creations fit for museums. The 20 different weaving techniques will prepare you to make house blessings including fans and harps; love knots, used to preserve and promote love; ancient and traditional designs such as Celtic knots, Earth Mother, Glory Braid, and much more.
The Book of Wheat Weaving and Straw Craft
Author: Morgyn Geoffry Owens-Celli
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9781579900786
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Make amazing natural projects ranging from simple but lovely plaits to creations fit for museums. The 20 different weaving techniques will prepare you to make house blessings including fans and harps; love knots, used to preserve and promote love; ancient and traditional designs such as Celtic knots, Earth Mother, Glory Braid, and much more.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN: 9781579900786
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Make amazing natural projects ranging from simple but lovely plaits to creations fit for museums. The 20 different weaving techniques will prepare you to make house blessings including fans and harps; love knots, used to preserve and promote love; ancient and traditional designs such as Celtic knots, Earth Mother, Glory Braid, and much more.
Wheat Weaving and Straw Art
Author: Linda D. Beiler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811704922
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wheat weaving is an ancient folk art made to celebrate a successful harvest. Today straw designs are admired for their beauty and intricacy. This title provides advice on the tools and materials needed to get started; tips on preparing the straw; and step-by-step projects for mastering the techniques of plaiting.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780811704922
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Wheat weaving is an ancient folk art made to celebrate a successful harvest. Today straw designs are admired for their beauty and intricacy. This title provides advice on the tools and materials needed to get started; tips on preparing the straw; and step-by-step projects for mastering the techniques of plaiting.
The Complete Book of Straw Craft and Corn Dollies
Author: Doris Johnson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486252490
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Complete illustrated introduction to the age-old craft of plaiting harvest, or good luck figures from straw. 150 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486252490
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Complete illustrated introduction to the age-old craft of plaiting harvest, or good luck figures from straw. 150 illustrations.
Make Your Own Walking Sticks
Author: Charles Self
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607658984
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Features step-by-step projects for a variety of sticks, staffs and canes. Includes a history of walking sticks, reasons to make your own, full-color gallery, and information on how to market your work. Carvers, turners and woodworkers of all skill levels will discover 15 fun projects and patterns for crafting canes. Includes 25 original carving patterns from renowned artist Lora S. Irish.
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
ISBN: 1607658984
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Features step-by-step projects for a variety of sticks, staffs and canes. Includes a history of walking sticks, reasons to make your own, full-color gallery, and information on how to market your work. Carvers, turners and woodworkers of all skill levels will discover 15 fun projects and patterns for crafting canes. Includes 25 original carving patterns from renowned artist Lora S. Irish.
Swiss Straw Work
Author: Veronica Main
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954179502
Category : Straw work
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954179502
Category : Straw work
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Spell Crafts
Author: Scott Cunningham
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780875421858
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Spell Crafts Take a look at your hands. See them as wondrous vehicles of power. Feel the energy that flows through everything you do. Tap into that power! Carve a symbol, dip a candle, mix fragrant herbs, sculpt clay, and make your life all that you want it to be. When crafts are used to create objects intended for ritual or to symbolize the divine, the connection between the craftsperson and divinity grows more intense. This second edition of "Spell Crafts, the much-loved and oft-read guide to magical handwork, features new illustrations and a new preface by David Harrington. Learn how to create and use all of the following: - magical simmering potpourris - a beaded psychic mandala - clay pentacles, plaques, and runic dice - a shaman''''s arrow - sand paintings - Corn Mother - a magical spell broom - protective hex sign - Witch bottles - flower garlands - spell banner - magic mirror - prosperity trivet - wheat weaving
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 9780875421858
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Spell Crafts Take a look at your hands. See them as wondrous vehicles of power. Feel the energy that flows through everything you do. Tap into that power! Carve a symbol, dip a candle, mix fragrant herbs, sculpt clay, and make your life all that you want it to be. When crafts are used to create objects intended for ritual or to symbolize the divine, the connection between the craftsperson and divinity grows more intense. This second edition of "Spell Crafts, the much-loved and oft-read guide to magical handwork, features new illustrations and a new preface by David Harrington. Learn how to create and use all of the following: - magical simmering potpourris - a beaded psychic mandala - clay pentacles, plaques, and runic dice - a shaman''''s arrow - sand paintings - Corn Mother - a magical spell broom - protective hex sign - Witch bottles - flower garlands - spell banner - magic mirror - prosperity trivet - wheat weaving
Decorative Straw Craft
Author: Barbara Fitch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855328245
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the techniques of straw marquetry & embroidery, and reviews the lost craft of Swiss straw work - the use of straw to make decorative trimmings and braids. Detailed step-by-step photographs illustrate all the techniques.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780855328245
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Explores the techniques of straw marquetry & embroidery, and reviews the lost craft of Swiss straw work - the use of straw to make decorative trimmings and braids. Detailed step-by-step photographs illustrate all the techniques.
Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252986
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Gruen Watch Model Identification Guide
Author: Mike Barnett
Publisher: Second Hand Press
ISBN: 9780578051581
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The first and only color illustrated guide to Gruen wristwatches. Over 300 Gruen watches identified correctly with the exact model name, date of production, and much more information on each watch model. Printed in beautiful color, this guide is unique amoung all other watch identification guides. Pictures are life sized to make finding the match to your watch much easier. One addition to this book that you will not find in other price guides is the inflation adjusted price for each watch. The watches have the price they were originally sold at (e.g. 29.95 in 1944), next to that is the price in today's dollars (e.g. $400 for the price of $29.95 in 1944). This makes comparing the value of watches easier to understand. It also gives you the ability to compare watch price of watches that have been made decades apart.
Publisher: Second Hand Press
ISBN: 9780578051581
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The first and only color illustrated guide to Gruen wristwatches. Over 300 Gruen watches identified correctly with the exact model name, date of production, and much more information on each watch model. Printed in beautiful color, this guide is unique amoung all other watch identification guides. Pictures are life sized to make finding the match to your watch much easier. One addition to this book that you will not find in other price guides is the inflation adjusted price for each watch. The watches have the price they were originally sold at (e.g. 29.95 in 1944), next to that is the price in today's dollars (e.g. $400 for the price of $29.95 in 1944). This makes comparing the value of watches easier to understand. It also gives you the ability to compare watch price of watches that have been made decades apart.
The Spirited Kitchen: Recipes and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year
Author: Carmen Spagnola
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 168268668X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Weave magic into every day with seasonal cooking and craft designed for every solstice, equinox, and halfway point in between! In The Spirited Kitchen, practicing witchcraft means nurturing a relationship with the seasons and drawing on ancestral roots to find magic in small details. Here, simple ingredients—apples, hazelnuts, wheat—become magical elements of cooking and ritual crafting. The result is an enchanting culinary journey through the pagan Wheel of the Year, from the Halloween festivities of Samhain to the return of autumn at Harvest Home. With each season, readers can cook feast dinners to celebrate nature’s cycles. In winter, Cranberry Custard Tarts encourage health and well-being; in spring, Deep Dish Nettle Quiche ushers in resilience after cold months; and Calendula Chicken embodies the abundance of summer. Along the way, ritual crafts like Salt Spells, hand-woven Offering Baskets, and a Maypole Chandelier bring extra symbolism to the table. Complete with stunning photographs and a glossary of spirited symbols and ingredients, this book is a bewitching guide to seasonal magic.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 168268668X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Weave magic into every day with seasonal cooking and craft designed for every solstice, equinox, and halfway point in between! In The Spirited Kitchen, practicing witchcraft means nurturing a relationship with the seasons and drawing on ancestral roots to find magic in small details. Here, simple ingredients—apples, hazelnuts, wheat—become magical elements of cooking and ritual crafting. The result is an enchanting culinary journey through the pagan Wheel of the Year, from the Halloween festivities of Samhain to the return of autumn at Harvest Home. With each season, readers can cook feast dinners to celebrate nature’s cycles. In winter, Cranberry Custard Tarts encourage health and well-being; in spring, Deep Dish Nettle Quiche ushers in resilience after cold months; and Calendula Chicken embodies the abundance of summer. Along the way, ritual crafts like Salt Spells, hand-woven Offering Baskets, and a Maypole Chandelier bring extra symbolism to the table. Complete with stunning photographs and a glossary of spirited symbols and ingredients, this book is a bewitching guide to seasonal magic.