Productivity secrets, advice, and motivational wisdom from over 20 leading mixed media textile and fiber artists to boost your creative career. Improve your Textile or Fiber art practice: Take your first step towards creating work that matters by sharing in the processes and techniques of award-winning mixed media T...

At lastーgorgeous lace projects that you can knit and wear every day. From the celebrated author of Socks from the Toe Up comes a collection of knitted lace that you will want to live in. Whether you’re new to lace or a more adventuresome knitter, you will find plenty to occupy your needles. From a delicate camisole...

Look what The New Yorker dragged in! It’s the purr-fect gathering of talent celebrating our feline companions. This bountiful collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover art, drafts, and drawings from the magazine’s archives. Among the contributors are...

Create gorgeous sweaters, bags, afghans, and toys just by knitting the simplest of shapesーa square! No one forgets the sweet victory of completing their first knitted block, but most of us quickly move on to more complex constructions, only making swatches for guage. In this comprehensive volume, celebrated designe...

Tropical plants are becoming more popular each year with gardeners, including gardeners living in temperate climates around the world, who are eager to create their own tropical garden by growing tropical plants outdoors during summer and indoors in pots during the colder months of the year. Learn how to create your...

Il disegnare la figura del modello vivente è un allenamento didattico di grande valore. In questo libro vi sono alcuni argomenti di riflessione per suggerire una serie di percorsi di avvio per allenarvi gradualmente a osservare il corpo umano, maschile e femminile.

"Okay, let’s get to it. There are lots of nasty looking dog breeds out there, but which ones are the absolute ugliest? Which ones make the Gorgon blush? Which ones, when we happen to see them, cause us to involuntarily cross ourselves and mutter under our breath..." And so begins this irreverent countdown of the fou...

One of the reasons knitting and colorwork master Melissa Leapman first learned to knit was her wish to make one special projectーa sweater using Fair Isle technique. Now, for the first time, she brings her passion for advanced color knitting to knitters who want to knit with any and every color of yarn they can wrap...

The complete guide to adhesive, acrylic adhesive, medical adhesive, silicone adhesive and plastic adhesive.

Your Happy Healthy Pet The authoritative information and advice you need, illustrated throughout with full-color photographs--now revised and redesigned to be even more reader-friendly! Cavalier King Charles Spaniels are equally at home in a castle or a condo, the city or the country. Elegant in appearance but energ...

Hermit Crabs provides concise yet complete coverage of important crab care topics such as feeding, housing, and selecting shells. Using full-color photos and tip boxes that highlight essential topics, this book encompasses all the basics of hermit crab care and shows why these unique and exotic creatures are the per...

Professional artist and beloved teacher Linda Novick leads you on an exploration of the divine connection you can experience through art. Each chapter includes a simple yoga-inspired breathing and stretching exercise to focus your mind and refresh your body, along with an original art project that helps you explore ...

Author Kathy King has developed a variation the decorative paper craft of quilling to create unique designs in beadwork. In bead quilling--instead of thin strips of paper--thin strips of beads, made with square stitch, are wrapped to form circles, scrolls, and squares. The holes of the beads, rather than the sides, ...

50 seasonal projects to make with kids Highlighting the best of each month of the year, Make and Takes for Kids offers 50 projects to make with kids, each centered around an upcoming holiday or season. The ideas are unique and simple to produce, and each project is thoughtfully constructed and designed to create an ...

Learn the Tricks of the Trade for Drawing Irresistibly Cute Manga-Style Animals and Chibis! The world of manga is filled with strange creatures and adorable sidekicks. Just about every manga hero and heroine has an animal mascot, and all the most popular ones have a cute "chibi" form. This book teaches aspiring mang...

Art History: The Key Concepts is a systematic, reliable and accessible reference guide to the disciplines of art history and visual culture. Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art, design and culture in general, it is an indispensable source of knowledge for all ...