Simple, Spectacular Braided-In Rugs

Author: Diana Blake Gray
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781512024234
Category : Rugs, Braided
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Braided-in rugs only look complicated! With a few old T-shirts, a pair of scissors and a handful of safety pins, you can create stunning braided-in rugs. This lost folk art comes alive with simple step-by-step directions. These durable, reversible rugs are made in a single step, which automatically forms swirling lines for big visual impact. The author walks the first-time rug maker through the process and shows how to make rugs with two, four, six and even eight strands. Directions for right- and left-handers, plus no-sew options make the rugs suitable for all skill levels. With a dozen projects in various shapes, you can create your own heirloom rugs and baskets with fabrics ranging from light cotton to heavy wool.

Twined Rag Rugs

Author: Bobbie Irwin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781974807413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Crocheted and Fabric Tapestry Rugs

Author: Diana Blake Gray
Publisher: Rafter-Four Designs
ISBN: 9781931426299
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This third volume in the Rugmaker's Handbook series is designed to teach textile explorers of all skill levels to make crocheted or fabric tapestry rag rugs from fabric strip, with simple crochet stitches. Step-by-step directions make it easy to create patterned rugs in any shape including freeform rugs. This classic book has been revised, expanded and updated and for the first time includes directions to adapt rug patterns to any material, including yarns.

Traditional Shirred and Standing Wool Rugs

Author: Diana Blake Gray
Publisher: Rafter-Four Designs
ISBN: 9781931426312
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
It is amazing what happens when you stand a piece of wool on its edge. With just the simplest of tools, you can make traditional shirred and standing wool rugs with incredibly rich textures, colors and patterns. Traditional Shirred and Standing Wool Rugs is the fourth volume in the Rugmaker's Handbook Series of reference books for textile explorers of all skill levels. The book covers all of the traditional methods of using fabric with step-by-step directions making it easy to create luxurious, reversible rugs from a variety of fabrics and recycled clothing. This classic book has been revised, expanded and updated to include never before published methods. Shirred and standing wool rugs are a recycler's dream since they can be made with the smallest fabric scraps. Color cover, B&W interior with over 260 photos and illustrations.

The Scandinavian Home

Author: Niki Brantmark
Publisher: CICO Books
ISBN: 9781782494119
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Discover classic and contemporary Scandinavian style with specially commissioned photography of homes in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Discover classic and contemporary Scandinavian style with specially commissioned photography of homes in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. Scandinavia is famous for its distinctive style: homes are pared-back and simple, and form and function are combined to create aesthetically pleasing and practical interiors. Scandinavians are inspired by light, having an abundance of it in summer but so little of it in winter, and house designs tend to maximize the amount of natural light that enters the home, and allow the inhabitants to make the most of outdoor life during the summer. Similarly, nature and the weather are major influences: homes are made warm and cozy for the freezing winter months—not just literally with log burners, but also through incorporating wood and natural materials. Here Niki Brantmark, owner of the interior design blog My Scandinavian Home, presents a wide-ranging collection of these beautiful homes and explores how the Scandinavian lifestyle is reflected in them all. The first chapter, Urban Living, features styles ranging from minimalist to bohemian, and pale palettes to dramatic dark colors. By contrast, the Country Homes tend to have a softer, calmer feel, through color and textiles, in line with a slower pace of life. Finally, the spectacular Rural Retreats include a mountain cabin, beach house, and rustic summer cottage, and demonstrate how having somewhere to escape to is so important to many Scandinavians. This collection of stunning interiors will put Scandi style within every reader’s reach.

Making Jewelry with T-Shirt Yarn

Author: Lorine Mason
Publisher: Design Originals
ISBN: 9781574213744
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Braid, Twist, and Roll T-shirts Into Fun Jewelry and Accessories Have you ever asked yourself "What in the world should I do with all these old T-shirts?" The answer is simple: cut them up, dye, roll, and glue the strips into lovely shapes, and turn them into colorful necklaces, earrings, headbands, rings, bracelets, and more! Making Jewelry with T-Shirt Yarn will have you wrapping and knotting your way to fun fabric jewelry creations. Author Lorine Mason reveals the five basic shapes to use in making endless combinations of embellishments. She also shows how to get terrific effects by tie-dying plain T-shirt yarn to create wonderful color combinations. So find a T-shirt, gather a few basic supplies, open this book to a cool project, and you'll be on your way to a unique and inexpensive new craft. You'll be amazed by the variety of looks you can get by working with T-shirt strips. The tying and finishing techniques presented here take only minutes to master. Adults as well as kids will love wearing these stylish fashions. Discover how to create fabulous fashions from ordinary T-shirts: - How to create your own T-shirt yarn - Easy-to-learn tying and finishing techniques - Knotting, braiding, twisting, and rolling fabric strips - 5 basic shapes to use in endless combinations - Tie-dyeing plain T-shirt yarn to create wonderful color arrangements

Democracy and Education

Author: John Dewey
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.

Locking Loops

Author: Theresa Pulido
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737156000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Theresa Pulido introduced her fresh, colorful take on locker hooking in her first book, Hook, Loop & Lock, and in Locking Loops she's back with even more fabulous, original locker hooking projects. Whether you are already a fan of locker hooking or new to it, you're sure to find inspiration in these pages. The book includes new techniques including a new "ruched frames" technique and introduces using new materials.

Love in the Time of Cholera (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593310853
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 473

Book Description
A beautifully packaged edition of one of García Márquez's most beloved novels, with never-before-seen color illustrations by the Chilean artist Luisa Rivera and an interior design created by the author's son, Gonzalo García Barcha. In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.

Rag Rugs, Pillows, and More

Author: Elspeth Jackson
Publisher: CICO Books
ISBN: 9781800650213
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Elspeth Jackson reinvents the traditional craft of rag rugging to create contemporary and sustainable homeware items from leftover fabrics. You’ll be amazed at how simple and enjoyable it is to upcycle old and well-loved garments into beautiful rugs, pillows, artworks, bags, and other gifts, using just a few basic tools and some simple techniques. The book is arranged into three chapters: Home includes a selection of projects for fun and easy rugs in a range of colours and styles, as well as a shaggy pillow, draught excluder, wall hanging and chalkboard frame. Gifts has wonderful ideas for unique items that you can make for friends and family, from a clutch purse to flower hair clips and even a brooch. Finally, Seasonal will inspire you to turn your strips of fabric into decorations and gifts to use at certain times of the year, from a rag-rugged heart for Valentine’s Day, to an unusual spring wreath and some gorgeous Christmas baubles. With lavish color photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions and artworks, crafters of all ages will enjoy making these projects. A comprehensive section at the start of the book covers everything you need to know about which fabrics to choose, what tools you will need, and the essential techniques, allowing you to discover how to update this traditional craft with endless possibilities of color and fabric combinations.