This colorful account is a richly researched, dramatic, enthralling look thatportrays the color red as a driving force in history and empire since ancienttimes. 8-page color insert.
Celebrated designer, Amy Butler brings her fresh, modern style to the timeless craft of sewing. In this lavishly illustrated collection of patterns, she presents 24 charming projects ranging from cushy floor cushions to smart aprons to stylish handbags. Stylish photographs inspire while how-to illustrations and straightforward text (minus the ...
In the same winning format as "In Stitches", textile designer and style maven Amy Butler turns her attention to baby with more than 20 projects to make for wee ones. This book features lovely photographs, technical illustrations, and ready-to-use patterns that make fast work of crib accessories, stroller blankets, booties, bags, soft toys, and ...
"Midwest Modern" expresses Amy Butler's personal vision across home, fashion and lifestyle, capturing the energy and creativity inherent in her vision. Meant to inspire a personal quest for the reader, the emphasis is on beautifying the everyday with the graceful use and editing of fabrics, colours, textures, objects and furnishings. Underscoring ...
Celebrated designer Amy Butler brings her fresh modern style to the timeless craft of sewing in this kit. Based on the book "In Stitiches", this kit features fifteen projects ranging from floor cushions to smart aprons 7 stylish handbags. Plus thread and tissue for making the tissue box cover with Amy's gorgeous fabric designs. It includes 32 page ...
This delightful collection features all-new textile designs from Amy Butler in our winning Mix and Match Stationery format. The pack includes 16 colour sheets, 16 color envelopes (4 each of 4 designs), and sticker sheet.
Filled with 24 cards and envelopes featuring Amy Butler's signature floral designs this clever notecard folio includes cheerful cards for any correspondence.
This is a collection of the best recipes for jams, jellies, marmalades, butters, curds, conserves and preserves--plus a few great breads to spread them on. The authors lay out ingredients, tips, instructions and images of their own country favorites like Sour Cherry Jam, Cider House Apple Butter and Old Time Grape Jelly. Illustrations.
Complemented by more than two hundred full-color photographs, an innovative guide to the mix-and-match aesthetic in home decorating explains how to create a unique, eclectic, and stylish space by blending the old with the new, flea market finds with family heirlooms, vintage treasures with contempor
As Edward Albee puts it in this timeless collection of pieces about dogs, there are "those of us who feel incomplete withoutt the company of a dog or two." Those same people will feel incomplete without this book, now in paperback. Along with portraits of dogs are ruminations by such dog-devoted authors as Anne Beattie, Nancy Friday, and Jane ...
Presented in the familiar format of the board book, this ironic bent on childhood primers will make a fantastic and thoughtful gift for that expressive thinker, student, scholar or armchair philosopher seeking inspiration in their day-to-day lives
Ruminations on man's--and woman's--best friend are paired with written and artistic odes to the company of dogs. Writers include Anne Beattie, Nancy Friday and Jane Smiley; artists who lend a paw are William Wegman and Jamie Wyeth. "Lavish and beautiful".--"The New Yorker". 100 illustrations.
Presented in the familiar format of the board book, this ironic bent on childhood primers will make a fantastic and thoughtful gift for that expressive thinker, student, scholar or armchair philosopher seeking inspiration in their day-to-day lives
Rob Brackett is in dire straits. He's always known that the first rule of survival is to not stick your neck out for anyone but yourself. But he disregarded his own advice and took another orphan, a young girl called Nell, under his wing. As a result of Nell's trusting nature, the two of them were kidnapped off the streets of London and shipped to ...
Presented in the familiar format of the board book, this ironic bent on childhood primers will make a fantastic and thoughtful gift for that expressive thinker, student, scholar or armchair philosopher seeking inspiration in their day-to-day lives.
Presented in the familiar format of the board book, this ironic bent on childhood primers will make a fantastic and thoughtful gift for that expressive thinker, student, scholar or armchair philosopher seeking inspiration in their day-to-day lives
A dramatic history of cochineal, the small Mexican beetle whose precious red dye provoked global intrigue and piracy from medieval times to the present day - for fans of Mark Kurlansky A PERFECT RED recounts the colourful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient ...
An easy-to-follow format provides recipes for various pastry crusts and serves up mouth-watering recipes for cream pies, meringues, southern favorites, fruit pies, tarts and one-crust favorites. Also included is advice about equipment, ingredients and decorative touches. Illustrations.
"A Perfect Red" recounts the colourful history of cochineal, a legendary red dye that was once one of the world's most precious commodities. Treasured by the ancient Mexicans, cochineal was sold in the great Aztec marketplaces, where it attracted the attention of the Spanish conquistadors in 1519. Shipped to Europe, the dye created a sensation, ...
Called by critics his best work of fiction, "Rosa Alchemica" incorporates not only the lush language and imagery of early Yeats, but also his personal interests: Irish culture, myth, and legend.
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