Books

Learn all the steps necessary, from the ground up you might say, to create wonderful art with gourds. Over 220 clear color photos and concise text ...

Bring new direction and inspiration to your gourd crafts by adding motion! Gourd art is often stationary, either elaborately decorated items of bea...

Heritage, or traditional, gardens and heirloom seeds are joined at the hip, but previous books have separated them. This is the first holistic look...

Learn the art of sculpting soapstone. The softness of the material makes it easy to work with using basic, simple tools. Soapstone also produces be...

Many leather crafters are looking for more than practical construction patterns; instead they're ready to add artistry to their work. Through 18 pr...

Leather Braiding has stood for more than forty years as the definitive book in its field. Grant’s clearly written guide to the art of leather braid...

Leathercraft: Traditional Handcrafted Leatherwork Skills and Projects. In this modern age of technology and speed, what is taught in master crafter...

Layer life with love! Preserve, celebrate, and cherish life’s most memorable moments with this creative guide to modern scrapbooking by prolific p...

Menhaden steamers were double framed, heavily built offshore fishing boats in use during much of the 20th century. As the name implies, they were u...

Menhaden steamers were double framed, heavily built offshore fishing boats in use during much of the 20th century. As the name implies, they were u...

While there are many commercially available weapons and accessories for military miniatures, sometimes you wish you had a different rifle or sword ...

A step-by-step guide for creating home furnishings from resources found in nature. The beautiful “green” results are, at the same time, beautiful, ...

With detailed instructions, templates, and colorful photography, this book shows how to craft fifty-five paper jewelry projects. Colorful and graph...

Paper Joy for Every Room: 15 Fun Projects to Add Decorating Charm to Your Home. What's the most fun way to add new creative touches to your living ...

Want to make your quilting easier to carry with you? Try the quilt-as-you-go methods that women of the 1800s invented so they could work on small b...

Sisters Rachel Lawson and Siobhan Watt combined their talents—Siobhan's professional art and design experience and Rachel's needlework expertise—to...

The art of fruit and vegetable carving has its roots in Asia, but today the creation of edible decorations is popular worldwide. Learn to create re...

For both the experienced and aspiring tattoo artist, as well as creative tattoo customers, this book of inspirational examples of script and banner...

Using hundreds of strips of paper at a time, strips that are cut 3 millimeters wide with a pasta cutter from watercolor paper painted with acrylics...

The herbarium approach offers you a window into the natural character of plants! These 20 wearable projects from naturalist and fiber artist Utopia...

Bookworms derive great pleasure from the simple act of reading. But what happens when a book is old or damaged and no longer in a fit state to be r...

Think beautiful antique boxes. Think vintage, monogrammed, art nouveaux, and just about any box that fits your needs. Add cardboard, fabric, tissue...

Narrow bands woven in colorful patterns are a centuries-old part of the Baltic craft tradition. The double-slotted heddle makes patterned band weav...

There are more complex ways to do it., with fancy controls, a hundred different burning tips. But here Dick Armstrong reminds us that the art of wo...