Primitive Style


Book Description

Create a warm and welcoming personal space with designs from Jenifer Gaston, creative director of Primitive Quilts and Projects magazine. If you love the primitive look, these traditional designs will feel right at home in your decorating scheme. 15 inviting patterns include a mix of cotton and wool projects: a folk-art sampler quilt, hooked rug, penny rug, table topper, pincushion, journal cover, and quilts Discover the joys of working with wool - so pleasurable and easy to learn Add texture and softness to cotton and wool projects with appliqué and embroidery




American Primitive


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Contains photos of over 400 pieces of American primitive sculpture.




Folk Art Primitive Doll Patterns


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Folk Art Primitive Doll Patterns takes the artist step-by-step to create 20 cloth dolls. Full-sized patterns are included for each doll along with a full color photograph of the completed doll. The book also includes clothing patterns. Folk Artist, Jennifer Terry creates many dolls each year and sold at art festivals, online and through word of mouth. Jennifer resides in the Alabama hill country, home to many talented folk artist and primitive craftsmen. Keeping with the purist folk art spirit, Jennifer doesn't use computer drawn images. She creates each pattern as the doll springs to life in her head. Folk Art Primitive Doll Patterns offers original hand drawn patterns sure to inspire, as you create your own folk art doll. Jennifer provides tips and techniques to hand paint a 3d effect on your dolls face as well as assembly tips. Folk Art Primitive Doll Patterns guides the doll artist through the process of creating a cherished family heirloom.




Primitive


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Biographical poems on artist Horace H. Pippin, who left an invaluable record of African American life during World War I.




Passion for Primitives


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Primitive, rustic, one-of-a-kind furnishings are wildly popular with a wide range of homeowners and professional decorators. Passion for Primitives, with more than 200 lush and stunning photographs, depicts the unpretentious honesty of pieces that come from the imaginations and hearts of the untrained artisans who created them. These furnishings, accent pieces, rustic architectural and structural elements, and displays of country collectibles and folk art are iconic Americana. This book unveils a legacy that is not only intrinsic to our historic design tradition, but is newly flourishing throughout the country. Passion for Primitives is a photographic tour of private homes throughout the U.S., ranging from country simple to modern. It is also a guide to designing with primitives that gives readers an invaluable tool for understanding the range of possibilities in decorating-an ideal book for decorators, designers, architects, and homeowners.




Folk Art Designs


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This is a source of ideas for all craftspeople and artists. The designs are copyright-free and can be photocopied, traced, coloured, adapted or used as inspiration for creating one's own designs.




Purely Primitive Dolls


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Create one-of-a-kind dolls in a primitive folk-art style for unique gifts and home décor. These primitive weathered and worn character dolls will inspire you to make your own.




Primitive Art


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This early work by Franz Boas was originally published in 1927 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Primitive Art' is an attempt to give an analytical description of the fundamental traits of primitive art. Franz Boas was born on July 9th 1958, in Minden, Germany. Boas enrolled at the University at Kiel as an undergraduate in Physics. He completed his degree with a dissertation on the optical properties of water, before continuing his studies and receiving his doctorate in 1881. He became a professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in 1899 and founded the first Ph.D program in anthropology in America. He was also a leading figure in the creation of the American Anthropological Association




Purely Primitive


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Learn to create rugs with an old-fashioned look!




Paul Klee and Primitive Art


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Considers folk art, African, Oceanic and Precolumbian art, and children's drawings.