How to Make Mission Style Lamps and Shades

Author: Popular Mechanics Co.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048615615X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Popular 1911 manual offers complete designs and instructions for making 18 authentic Mission lighting fixtures: chandeliers, reading lamps, droplights, desk lamps, dome fixtures, and more. Over 75 working drawings, diagrams, and figures.

Mission Style Lamps and Shades

Author: John Duncan Adams
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510720391
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 93

Book Description
With its simple, organic charm and timeless natural beauty, Mission-style furniture has enjoyed continued popularity for over a century. For craftsman and non-craftsman alike, perhaps the most cherished examples of Mission-style furniture are lamps. Mission Style Lamps and Shades takes readers through the entire process of designing, planning, and constructing radiant Mission-style lamps and shades. For countless craftspeople, John Duncan Adam’s Mission Style Lamps and Shades has been the go-to guide for those wanting to build their own lamps and shades. The book contains a wide array of do-it-yourself projects, from reading lamps to chandeliers, desk lights to drop lights, complete with easy-to-follow instructions, measurements, and more than 75 diagrams, drawings, and illustrations. With straightforward language, Adams takes the reader through techniques like trimming a block of wood, using a soldering iron, and designing opulent shades with art glass. With Adams’s expert guidance, the beginning craftsman will have no trouble creating a one-of-a-kind, fully functional, decorative lamps and shade.

Easy-to-Make Arts and Crafts Lamps and Shades

Author: John D. Adams
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048617462X
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
How to turn inexpensive materials into attractive, functional objects — from a dining room dome to an electric candle sconce.

Mission Furniture You Can Build

Author: John D. Wagner
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9781576300404
Category : Furniture making
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Provides instructions for building furniture in the "Mission" style, including tables, lamps, bookcases, and chairs.

Easy Stained Glass Panel Lampshades

Author: Anna Croyle
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486498808
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Recalling the prairie style but much less rigid, more than a dozen patterns for rectangularpanel-style lamps feature easy-to-replicate continuous designs. Perfect forstained glass hobbyists, the patterns include foil inlays and beautiful but not overlydetailed designs that ensure a successful finished product. The designs are standardsizelamp caps but can be resized for a variety of bases.Dover Original

Index to Handicraft Books, 1974-1984

Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Science and Technology Department
Publisher: Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description

How to Make Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles

Author: Bernard Mason
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486156060
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Making your own primitive instruments from simple materials such as coffee cans and flower pots. Includes 121 figures.

How to Do Beadwork

Author: Mary White
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486206974
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
A fundamental book on the craft, covering every aspect in full, not only patterns and operations but selections of materials: which beads to use, what type of thread, even what size needle. Readers start with the simplest patterns — five different bead chains — and work up to more intricate woven work like fobs, belts, and card cases. 9 plates, 96 figures.Reprint of the 1904 edition.

25 Kites That Fly

Author: Leslie L. Hunt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486225500
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
Details the methods and materials required to construct twenty-five types of kites and offers instructions in reeling and stringing

Drums, Tomtoms and Rattles

Author: Bernard Sterling Mason
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486218892
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
An authority on American Indian traditions provides complete, thorough directions for creating dance drums, tomtoms, water drums, and much more. Materials include such everyday items as wooden kegs, flower pots, coffee cans, buckets, and old inner tubes. Also includes instructions for making drumsticks and rattles. 121 figures.