Artisan Ropework


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Artisan ropework--coiling, spiraling, and stitching cotton rope--is an exciting and relatively unexplored technique for creating baskets, vessels, wall hangings, bowls, and much more. This book, packed with more than 150 photos, is an excellent resource for readers and crafters who are starting out on their stitched-ropework journey, looking for new inspiration, or seeking explore new techniques. Stitched ropework is a creative, fun craft that is accessible to all skill levels. This book contains 15 projects, starting with beginner projects and moving through progressively advanced designs. It also includes information on how to vary the designs and find your own style within this satisfying craft. All the projects have been designed and executed by Jessica Geach, a well-known textile artist. Geach's ropework has been exhibited in numerous galleries and events, including the prestigious Great Northern Contemporary Craft Fair. www.rubycubes.co.uk Projects Mats and coasters Keyrings Trinket dish duo Tassel bowl Looped cone Technicolor tray Reflection vessels Jewelry holder Hanging basket Vase Monochrome handled catchall basket Basket with natural-wood handle Rope and clay wall mural Beach bag




Making Faces in Fabric


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Learn appliqué techniques to create a face and add it to any textile craft project. Discover how to create freeform, raw-edge appliqué faces using Melissa Averinos’s fun, creative process. Melissa walks you through the process step by step, from a comprehensive lesson on drawing the face, to translating your sketch into fabric, to stabilizing the piece with stitching, to incorporating your stylized face into a finished project, whether it’s a pillow, tote, shirt, or stretched canvas! Learn how to make a variety of eyes, noses, lips, hair, and face shapes, as well as how to create facial features in just the right proportions. You’ll be amazed by how good the final portrait looks! • Personalize your fabric collage! Learn several different ways of creating facial features • Comprehensive lessons on fabric choices, color, and shading • Includes inspirational galleries of work from Melissa and her students




Roped In


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Gemma employs her famous ropework and all-round craft genius to offer a range of projects and crafty tricks to make your life more fabulous. Looking for a macramé plant holder to spruce up your living room? Want to create a swanky dog lead for your favorite pet? Looking to give your next dinner party some added class? This book is full of fun, accessible DIYs to help you decorate, entertain, and celebrate in style, no matter your skill level or the size of your living space. Living in a tiny apartment with her husband, daughter and hefty cat, accomplished maker Gemma Patford Legge is constantly looking for creative ways to make the everyday feel fancy. With an impressive Instagram following of over 60k, Gemma started the hashtag #ropedinbygemma as a way of convincing people to get crafting. With beautiful photography and witty writing, this book offers a range of projects and fancy tricks to make your life more fabulous




Baskets


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Baskets are a simple but stylish way to organize your home. The craft of basketry has been around for decades, and has slowly evolved into the latest interior trend. These hard-working multitaskers are not only a practical storage option, but they are also decorative and instantly add texture and warmth to any room. Handled, woven, lined, colored, patterned, lidded – there are so many options when it comes to choosing the baskets you display in your home that fits your needs and your decorating style. Baskets will teach you how to master the art of basketry through the 15 projects in this book. Learn how to add pattern and colour to your woven wonders are you create a colourful collection of storage of your own. The projects include laundry baskets, baskets with lids, basket bags and backpacks, a gorgeous woven lampshade and a stylish collection of patterned tableware.




Macramé Plant Hangers


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Adorn your cozy interiors with hand-woven knotted art and hanging plants. Are you a DIY home decorator, plant lover, or flower lover? We got you! Macramé plant hangers are the perfect little touch to accent your cozy, designer home. Macramé—the art of knotting made popular in the seventies—is now on a revival, bringing trendy boho vibes into your living room, bedroom, and more. And there’s simply no better way to display your hanging plants than stringing them up in handmade woven knots. Whether you’re a novice or seasoned knotter, Macramé Plant Hangers provides thirty quirky, yet stunning projects that will spark your DIY artist’s imagination and get you creating. Follow detailed photographs and instructions to construct patterns with various natural fibers, including cotton rope, felted wool, silk ribbon, jute, recycled fabric, and more. There are knotted projects suitable for bigger eight-inch pots, small four-inch pots, vintage bottles, and even air plants. Including a practical beginner’s section of knot basics; an introduction to weaving; customizable variations to add playful beads, funky fringes, and chic rope tassels to your macramé design for “whimsy”; and a bonus chapter on special projects that mix macramé with a dash of weaving and earthy elements, Macramé Plant Hangers is your handy guidebook to adorning interiors with your own custom hand-knotted, vintage art you can be proud of—while keeping it green!




Marlinspike Sailor's Arts and Crafts


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Discover the dozens of nautically flavored craft projects you can make with rope! You will be surprised by the fancy projects you can make with a square knot, a double-French hitching, or four-strand braids (a dog collar, a tool grip, and a decorated picture frame, respectively)! You can also tie the sailor's Turk's Head knot into a bracelet and morph a monkey's fist knot into a doorstop or a fun toy for your dog. Marine artisan Barbara Merry, an expert in artistic marlinspike seamanship skills, shows you how with Marlinspike Sailor's Knots and Crafts. With the help of her expert guidance, you can create more than 30 ropework projects that will add a nautical touch to your boat, RV, camp, or home. Here are just a few projects you can create with Marlinspike Sailor's Knots and Crafts: Companionway treads * Gear hammock for your bunk * Decorated carafe * Canvas ditty bag * Water bottle carrier * Manila doormat * Zipper pull * Swing hammock for your backyard * Key fob * Checkerboard * Reusable net shopping bag * Eyeglass case * Ring toss * and more Don’t worry if you have never worked with rope in this way before--Barbara will take you step-by-step through the process, from choosing and measuring materials to putting the final touches on your nautical project. Projects are suitable for scout troops or afterschool activities as well!




Plaited Basketry with Birch Bark


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For centuries people have marveled over the beauty of plaited basketry; now readers can actually learn the skill and artistry of this craft in the comfort of their own homes. Scholar, artisan, and teacher Vladimir Yarish created all of the birch bark baskets for this book after scouring museums and archeological sites all around the world. This definitive guide focuses on the history and myriad traditional uses of birch bark, as well as general instructions for basket-making and plaiting. Get hands-on with 18 birch bark projects, both decorative and useful, including a rectangular tray, small basket with three-part braid, or an oval basket with curls. Finally, in the gallery section, take a look at plaited baskets by various artists using contemporary materials.




Macramé Couture


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Embellishments and accessories are on trend in the artisan fashion world, and macramé is the perfect method for creating contemporary garment embellishments. This book introduces the materials, the knots and techniques, and how to choose the best combinations for various style needs and garment enhancements. Then, enjoy 17 projects--very accessible and doable, but with high-fashion impact--to add finishing touches. Don't be put off by the complexity of some projects, because it actually only takes a few different knots to complete these creations.This guide helps you take a garment or a general style approach from the realms of the ordinary to the heights of luxury.




Coffee and Capitalism in the Venezuelan Andes


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Traces the impact of the replacement of coffee by petroleum as Venezuela'a principal export partic. in the Bocono District. Considers theoretical issues of dependency and underdevelopment, the articulation of capitalist and noncapitalist social relations, and class formation.




Decorative Fusion Knots


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J.D. Lenzen, the producer of over 100 instructional knot videos and the creator of the famed YouTube channel Tying It All Together, reveals his innovative knotting style in Decorative Fusion Knots. Respected internationally for his knotting skills, Lenzen creates new knots by combining historical knot elements and new knotting techniques. The products of this intermingling are what he calls fusion knots - a brand-new genre of knot in a centuries-old tradition. Features 25 brand-new, never-before-seen knots.