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Build on the basic stained glass making skills you already possess. With straightforward text and a wealth of colour photos, this book will show you how to master more advanced stained glass making techniques such as: making complex cuts with a table saw and repeating cuts with a jig system, making and installing hinges, foiling glass jewels and nuggets, creating and fastening mosaic pieces, using a lamp jig, applying patinas to lead and zinc, installing reinforcing wire properly - all skills that will allow you to expand your crea... read more

Classic girl power is finally here! Females of all ages will celebrate the first just-for-girls entry in the Popular Mechanics classic activity series. Like its predecessors, The Girl Mechanic presents time-tested projects that build skills, enhance creativity and provide hours of pleasure with great ideas for crafts, toys, furniture, sports and games. The standout items include doll houses (one has an actual working lift!), jewellery boxes, picture frames, playhouses, Christmas cards and so much more. Activities to suit all skill ... read more

Glass jewellery is enjoying a renaissance right now, and kiln-working glass has also grown in popularity over the last few years. This book is great for students studying either glass or jewellery, for jewellers who want to learn and incorporate glass techniques, and for glassmakers who are not necessarily jewellers but want to learn. All these readers will benefit from the step-by-step guides and will learn new skills. This book is highly illustrated, with inspirational work from an international range of contemporary makers... read more

This comprehensive and ambitious workshop reference book for jewelers brings together a vast range of skills, techniques and technical data in one volume, providing an essential one-stop look-it-up resource for both students and professionals. The focus is on detailed explanation with clear step-by-step photography used extensively which means that while this book contains the expert techniques aimed squarely at professional jewelers, it is also accessible to students of any level seeking an authoritative and comprehensive bible of their craft.

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In this book, Yvonne Kulagowski considers issues of design and aesthetics and offers practical information about choosing metals and materials, techniques, and using different tools and equipment. She covers a wide range of topics, including styles and materials as they relate to wearability and high fashion. She also discusses the exciting world of fashion shows and catwalk collections and earrings made exclusively for theatre productions and exhibitions.

In this delightful book, Malena Skote shows you how to make decorative projects using concrete and so create long-lasting objects that can stay outside all year round. This inventive and inspiring new book has clear instructions and covers everything you need to know, including how to create and use moulds in silicon, wood and metal, how to use different types of concrete and how to work with different shapes, as well as creating the perfect finish adding decorative details. The 44 projects range from small projects such as plant p... read more

The Fabric and Yarn Dyer's Handbook is for anyone who wants to create a unique textile or yarn to use in quilting, home furnishings, embroidery, knitting or crochet. This book contains detailed step-by-step instructions to all the main techniques for dyeing and decorating. These include traditional vat and tie-dying as well as innovative contemporary methods never published before, involving the use of such workaday items as photocopiers, aluminium foil and latex. A comprehensive section on the characteristics of different fabrics ... read more

In 1926, Coco Chanel designed the little black dress; it was hugely versatile for many different occasions and continued to be fashionable year after year with simple amendments and different accessories keeping it up to date. Nearly 90 years later, the little black dress is still a wardrobe essential and each season designers continue to adapt new versions of this classic. This book supplies patterns for a number of different styles of little black dress, with instructions on how to make different styles of necklines, sleeves etc.... read more

Meet the Steampunk Softies, a charmingly raffish cast of characters for you to make, each with his or her own unique personality. From Charity Storm, the aviatrix who sports a set of built-in wings, to Tompion Zeitgeist, the sinister illusionist with mesmerising eyes, each of the eight little softies has a story to tell, and all share key steampunk characteristics, firmly rooted in a past that never quite existed. Use everyday crafting materials to create some decidedly out-of-the-ordinary characters. Customise your softies with od... read more

* A comprehensive sourcebook to using stonework in and around the home with over 1,000 inspirational colour photographs * Presents ideas for using stonework tiles, slabs and ornamentation in every room of the house, on walls and floors, as well as outdoors for patios, paths, steps & rockeries * Clear and easy instruction will get you from start to finish whatever your skill level

From Melbourne's best loved crafty store comes Meet me at Mike's, a cornucopia of crafty fun and inspiration.

Have you ever paid a tradesperson lots of money to do a job you later realised you could have done yourself? Or tried to do some work around your home, then had to call in an expert to fix the damage because you didn't know what you were doing? Drawing on 'inside knowledge' from tradespeople, this practical, easy-to-follow guide shows you how to do simple home repair and maintenance jobs yourself. With over 2,000 hints and tips on how to tackle annoying problems in and around your home, you'll be able to complete the job like a pro... read more

The latest book from the bestselling author Kim Thittichai focuses on the range of ideas and techniques for layering your textiles. These layers can produce simple to extreme surfaces for stitch. Layering is a major feature of today's textile art, whether to create relief, colour, texture or dimension. The author takes you through a number of key materials - papers, synthetic and natural fabric, translucent materials, wires, paints and sprays - that can be incorporated into layered textiles. Various techniques are combined w... read more

This book helps you learn the techniques that will allow you to turn a straightforward piece of felt into something more intricate, colourful, textured, imaginative - even wild and wonderful. Inspired by the natural world and grouped by colour, the projects in the book will help you to improve your felting techniques. "Creative Felting" also encourages you to experiment with your own styles and colours, which will help you discover your artistic potential and enrich your art and your life.

22 Unique Projects Unique jewelry and craft projects featuring ordinary and extraordinary buttons, plus beads and fabrics. Button Jewelry & Accessories transforms ordinary and not-so-ordinary buttons into unique necklaces, rings, accessories, and home decorations. Twenty-two original projects combine buttons of all shapes and sizes with beads or fabric. The projects have easy step-by-step instructions with photography, and they can easily be personalized with favorite colors and materials. This cute and colorful book will inspi... read more

Creaste and Embellish Using Beading and Wirework Techniques This book teaches you how to decorate your own clothes with beads and sequins as well as making trendy accessories and jewels including scarves, gloves, necklaces, earrings, bracelets and belt buckles. Techniques include how to work with different types of beads, threads, metal rods and clasps with 34 projects described and illustrated from start to finish. To help the reader tackle each project successfully, the authors have provided lists of materials required and rat... read more

An illustrated book with step-by-step instructions on how to make your own piupiu, the traditional Maori flax skirt. Experienced Totorua weaver Leilani Rickard covers everything you need to know - from customary uses of harakeke or flax, to the simple tools you will need to finish the garment. The colour photographs record every phase of the craft process and include a gallery of finished garments in both traditional and contemporary styles. First published June 2008.

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Learn about creative knotwork using thongs and thread, quick and easy stringing, how to show off display beads, mix vintage and modern, incorporate charms and rescale and design your own patterns.