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Masters: Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists (The Masters)
These art quilts showcase such versatility, innovation, and beauty that readers can’t help but be truly inspired The gifted artists come from across the globe—including Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America—and their work displays their varying sensibilities, backgrounds, and talents. Abstract appliquéd shapes cascade across the surface of Ita Ziv’s brilliantly colored quilts, creating vibrant celebrations of life. Noriko Endo captures her deep feeling for trees in a stunning interplay of light, shadow, and leaves. Gloves appear in nearly every quilt by Jane Burch Cochran, representing probing hands and, sometimes, angel wings. John Lefelhocz’s fantastic imagery—including an airplane silhouette that lights up—grabs viewers’ attention. Esteemed curator Martha Sielman contributes an illuminating essay for each of the 40 featured artists, who are showcased in eight-page features. . .
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The Painted Quilt: Paint and Print Techniques for Color on Quilts
The only book on the market that deals with the application of color to the quilted surface--a technique that creates completely unique effects Dyeing, fabric painting and print techniques are an important part of the increasingly popular City & Guilds textile courses. Painted Quilt demystifies the process of coloring cloth using a variety of techniques including fabric paints, pastels, dyes, bleaches and transfers. The book combines simple techniques to produce complex textile surfaces, and describes exactly how these effects are achieved with easy-to-understand step-by-step photographs and instructions. Many people have competent sewing skills but lack the confidence to create their own designs--this book will help them to explore their own creative potential to achieve effective and original designs..
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Gentle Warrior (Tapestry Romance)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Ransom comes an exquisite tender tale of love, adventure and passion! In feudal England, Elizabeth Montwright barely escaped the massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from her ancestral castle. Bent on revenge, she rode again through the fortress gates, disguised as a peasant...to seek aid from Geoffrey Berkley, the powerful baron who had routed the murderers. He heard her pleas, resisted her demands, and vowed to seduce his beautiful subject. Yet as Elizabeth fought the warrior's caresses, love flamed for this gallant man who must soon champion her cause...and capture her spirited heart! .
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Medieval Tapestries Coloring Book (Dover Coloring Book)
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The Second Siege: Book Two of The Tapestry
GRAVE FORCES ARE converging to seize control of the Book of Thoth, a hidden artifact whose pages hold the key to creating—or unraveling—the very threads of existence Under the care and tutelage of Cooper, Rowan’s most lethal Agent, Max McDaniels and David Menlo embark on a quest to protect the book from the demon Astaroth, who would exploit its secrets with dire consequence. And with Astaroth free after centuries of imprisonment, the world outside Rowan’s gates has already become hostile. Far from home, cut off behind enemy lines, Max and his allies must journey across Europe, descend into the fabled Frankfurt Workshop, brave the tangled corners of the Black Forest . . . and cross beyond the veils of our very world..
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Tapestry
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The Needlepoint Book: A Complete Update of the Classic Guide
Since its original publication in 1976, The Needlepoint Book has become known as "The Black Bible" -- the one resource every aficionado of needlepoint needs to own. Completely revised and expanded, this updated edition includes your favorite features, plus: * A 16-PACE COLOR INSERT WITH ALL-NEW PROJECTS * A CRASH COURSE ON THE NEW FIBERS UPDATED INFORMATION ON MATERIALS, AS WELL AS HOW TO WORK WITH AND CARE FOR THEM * DOZENS OF NEW STITCHES AND A CHAPTER ON THE POPULAR OPENWORK STITCHES * MORE THAN 1,300 ILLUSTRATIONS * 369 STITCHES! DIAGRAMS FOR ALL PROJECTS SHOWN The Needlepoint Book covers all the information you need to learn needlepoint and improve your technique -- in a single comprehensive volume. You'll find section on: * CHOOSING THE RIGHT PROJECT * TRANSFERRING DESIGNS * ELEMENTS OF GOOD DESIGN: COLOR, PROPORTION, AND BALANCE * LEFT-HANDED NEEDLEPOINT * FINISHING TECHNIQUES * CLEANING NEEDLEPOINT * AND MUCH MORE! The Needlepoint Book is a complete guide to the craft, and the only book you'll ever need as a reference to become an expert at creating exquisite works to be treasured forever. .
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The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 2)
A mage's power has brought five university students from our world into a realm where an ancient evil has freed itself from captivity to wreak revenge on its enemies Praise for The Fionavar Tapestry: One of the very best fantasies to have appeared since Tolkien. (Andre Norton) Kay's intricate Celtic background will please fantasy buffs. ( Publishers Weekly) Immense scale, literary richness and dazzling heroes. ( Toronto Star) This is the only fantasy work I know which does not suffer by comparison to The Lord of the Rings. ( Interzone) A grand galloping narrative...reverberates with centuries of mythic and incantory implications. ( Christian Science Monitor) The essence of high fantasy...a remarkable achievement. ( Locus) The Fionavar Tapestry is a work that will be read for many years to come. (Charles de Lint).
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The Tapestry of Culture
The Tapestry of Culture is a brief, affordable introduction to cultural anthropology, designed to provide a conceptual framework with which to read and understand both classic and contemporary ethnographies. The text uses a comparative approach and it emphasizes the interpretation of symbols and the meaning of things. The new edition has revised the presentation of material and offers expanded, bulleted chapter summaries, more clearly defined and highlighted key terms, additional headings and suggested readings and web sites. A revised chapter 1 gives students a clear introduction to get them started in the course. In addition, numerous chapter-by-chapter content changes have been added throughout the book including splitting a former chapter into two new chapters to increase the coverage of applied anthropology in a new chapter 13 and new material on Afghanistan in chapter 15..ter 15...
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