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CRAFTS & CROCHET:
PUBLIC DOMAIN PRODUCTS
How To Make Baskets
THE twisting and weaving of Nature's
materials, grasses, twigs, rushes and vines, into useful and
beautiful forms seems almost instinctive in man. Perhaps it came to
him as the nest-weaving instinct comes to birds-for at first he used
it as they do, in the building of his house. Later, shields and
boats were formed of wicker work, but how long ago the first basket
was made no one is wise enough to tell us.
Today Indian tribes in South America weave baskets from their native
palms, South African negroes use reeds and roots, while the Chinese
and Japanese are wonderful workmen in this as in other arts and
industries; but basketry has come down to us more directly through
the American Indian. Generations of these weavers have produced
masterpieces, many of which are preserved in our museums, and the
young basket maker need not go on long pilgrimages to study the old
masters of his craft. Here at last, as in England, the value of
manual training is being realized, and basketry is taking an
important place; following the kindergarten and enabling the child
to apply the principles he has learned there. He still works from
the centre out, and weaves as he wove his paper mats, but permanent
materials have replaced the perishable ones, and what he makes has
an actual value.
Work comes complete with source in
word doc format as well as pdf version.
Custom
cover graphics.
101 Patchwork Patterns
Quilt Name Stories, Cutting Designs,
Material Suggestions, Yardage Estimates and Definite Instructions
for Every Step of Quilt Making
HANDCRAFTS, like all phases of human endeavor, rather run in varying
cycles. Some of us were born in the Pyrography period and reared on
hand painted plates with much beshaded backgrounds; others of us
date back to the stork painted on velvet with a pressed pen
technique, while all of mature age have survived the era of crochet
boudoir caps, of tinfoil and glass paintings, and much be-beaded
lamp shades!
True, there have ever been crafts worthwhile, some arts where beauty
combined with purpose to create the "joys forever." Our treasure
chests contain exquisitely fashioned needlework on garments,
household linens and purely decorative pieces... We have devised an
hundred ways to fabricate floor coverings, draperies, and bed-ding.
Which brings us to quilts and the no end of fascinating patterns and
tales in their history. Through all the changing fads of woven
bead-belts or melon seed portieres our quilts have been always with
us. A wholesome thing it is, too, that American women have so saved
and planned and pieced. To have wrought beauty even from beautiful
surroundings has not always been achieved; but to salvage beauty and
usefulness from coarse waste materials was the everyday
accomplishment of our pioneer mothers who hooked rugs and pieced
quilts.
Work comes complete with source in
word doc format as well as pdf version.
Custom
cover graphics.
101
Hand Puppets
HERE ARE one hundred and one puppets for you. The list
begins with a handkerchief puppet that you can make with
a twist of the wrist, and ends with a modern version of
the giant and elaborate puppets of Osaka, Japan.
Some of the ideas are brand-new; some are as old as
history. If you were to construct and operate them all,
you could consider yourself a master puppeteer. On the
other hand, you will come to know, as every good
puppeteer does, that the simplest puppet is often the
best.
There are plays too, and designs for stages and props,
suggestions on performance, and detailed instructions on
the use of materials-all of which can be quickly located
through the index at the back.
Choose a puppet, gather your materials, and begin.
Watch your puppet take life under your hands. Slip
him on, turn him this way and that, cause him to speak,
to laugh, to think-he will delight you; he might even
surprise you. The famous lady writer, George Sand, was a
puppet fan. "Her feeling was that when she thrust her
hand into the empty skirt of the inanimate puppet it
became alive with her soul in its body, the operator and
the puppet completely one."
It's true. Your puppets will lead you into a new and
wondrous world from which you will not-cannot escape. It
is, after all, the world of yourself.
Work comes complete with source in
word doc format as well as pdf version.
Custom
cover graphics.
Basket
Making For Fun and Profit
In a Few
Minutes,
you can
be
starting
a
highly-enjoyable
craft
and
possibly
a
lucrative
business...
THE twisting and weaving of
Nature's materials, grasses, twigs, rushes and vines, into useful and
beautiful forms seems almost instinctive in man.
Perhaps it came to him as the nest-weaving instinct comes to birds—for
at first he used it as they do, in the building of his house.
Into all these primitive home-made articles, beauty slowly found greater
and greater expression in form, color and design; and it was often
wrought out through materials so crude and difficult to manipulate as to
make one wonder that effort to transform them was even attempted.
A
Fully
Illustrated
Course
On
Basket-Making
That
Will
Show You
How To
Create
Beautiful
Baskets
From
Rush,
Raffia
and
Rattan. Includes
44
Projects.
Learn
the The
A-Z of
the
Ancient
Craft
that
brings
The
Ultimate
Enjoyment
for All
Ages!
Work comes complete with source in word doc format that you can edit
as you like. You also get custom graphics and a sales letter.
The
Book of Needlework
Who Else
Wants To
A Full
Course
in
Needlework?
Finally, An
A-Z
Needlework
Course That
Will Guide
You To Start
Creating
Your Own
Needlework
Masterpieces!
Needlework,
includes
such varied
occupations
as sewing,
cutting and
shaping, and
knitting.
In this
ebook, these
subjects are
developed in
so far as
they may be
presented to
anyone
interested
in learning
this craft.
The
techniques
and styles
suggested
are as
simple and
straightforward
as possible,
so you can
learn it
easily as
well as to
become
prepared, to
attempt
intelligently
much more
difficult
tasks.
The material
of the book
is arranged
so as to
avoid laying
down
hard-and-fast
rules with
regard to
non-essential
things.
COMPLETE
INSTRUCTIONS
in TATTING,
EMBROIDERY,
CROCHET,
KNITTING and
NETTING,
BERLIN WOOL
WORK, POINT
LACE, and
GUIPURE
D'ART.
Along with
award
winning
designs and
project
ideas.
Work comes complete with source in word doc format that you can edit
as you like. You also get custom graphics and a sales letter.
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