This series provides the tools to get a home-based business off to a great start and keep it running in this competitive environment. Like having your own business advisor, each edition features inside information from professionals along with easy-to-use planning charts and worksheets.
Decorate, create, and give with love--or start a successful home business: that's what crafters can do with this jazzy, snazzy guide to putting together the perfect gift basket. Written by Marie Browning, author of the best-selling "Jazzy Jars," it's not only filled with a variety of techniques for decorating the baskets--painting, decoupage, ...
Anyone with a modicum of talent can produce dazzling baskets for all occasions with The Gift Basket Design Book. A long-time gift-basket professional reveals techniques that yield wonderful results and shows how to put together delightful baskets.
Twill basketmaking is a craft originating with the North American Indians, when each tribe and region had its own variations. From these timeless techniques and patterns come the inspiration for brilliant geometric, diamond, block and linear twill baskets in this book, each more beautiful than the last. From basic techniques to sophisticated ...
Two of the most celebrated basket-making books - "The Basket Book" 0-8069-6830-3 (277,000 copies sold) and "Handmade Baskets" (69,000) - are now together in one magnificent resource. Better still, it features 10 extra projects and beautiful brand-new colour photography. In this thoroughly illuminating book, Lyn Siler explores tools and materials; ...
Embracing a breathtaking range of new techniques, styles, and materials, beautiful basketry offers more options than ever before. And these 500 exquisite artisan pieces will open crafters' eyes to the varied and wonderful possibilities. These baskets, made by top creators from around the world-as well as the best emerging newcomers, range from ...
The stunning diversity of North American Indian and Eskimo baskets is thoroughly explored, including basket manufacture techniques, raw materials, forms, and decoration, with information on native lifestyles. More than 175 regional and tribal styles are documented in an easy-to-use and beautifully illustrated format. The book's standardized ...
Never before have so many varieties of basketry techniques from so many parts of the world been covered in a single volume. The traditional methods-coiling, twining, wickerwork, splintwork, and plaiting-are described in detail, and special attention is given to the specific materials, beginnings, and finishes appropriate to each.
Steve Crowley, Money Editor of ABC's "Good Morning America", forecast the three fastest growing small business opportunities of the decade - selling gift baskets is one of them. This book is for anyone who wants to get in on this industry. Readers get started by learning all about the materials that are used - including bows, ribbons, and balloons ...
This is a guide to the tools, equipment and materials of splint woven basketry. It contains 30 styles using splint materials - wood and grass pounded or split into flat strips - including traditional egg, melon, feather, cradle, oriole, shaker and other shapes. The ways of gathering, drying, storing and soaking splints are discussed, and there are ...
In words and photos you will meet the Shaker artisans of the past, visit their communities, see their handiwork and appreciate the Shaker spirit that is part of every Shaker basket and be introduced to the traditional tools and techniques used. Then in more than 300 clear step-by step photos learn the process of making your own
Use natural materials, including leaves, roots, reeds, grasses, vines, shoots, willow, bark and splints to create baskets. A wide variety of weaving techniques are clearly illustrated with many examples and instructions for borders, lids, handles and miniatures. Seventy-five pictures and drawings show details, progressive instructions, and ...
Novices as well as advanced basketmakers will be amazed by the variety of materials and techniques examined in this fully illustrated guide. Step-by-step instructions for 24 projects, eight of which are specifically designed for beginning weavers, are offered within the special lay-flat binding and describe the entire project - from weaving the ...
This book provides step-by-step instructions complete with detailed colour photographs. It includes a chapter on dyeing reed at home. It presents 4 basic basket projects for the beginning weaver. The art of basket making is described in detail for the beginning or experienced weaver. Complete with a chapter on tools and materials to get started, ...
"A clear and direct treatment of natural materials, their preparation and their techniques". -- Fiberarts. A complete guide to making wicker, splint, coiled, and twined baskets from commercial and natural materials. Includes information on making dyes.
In this book, Bryan Sentance talks at length about the techniques and materials used to construct baskets around the world. He demystifies basketry and gives a basis for understanding, appreciating and identifying the baskets of the world. Copious colour photographs, diagrams and archive photography of basketry from every inhabited continent are ...
Coiling is a basketry technique used as decoration in gourd art. Step-by-step coiling techniques, as well as pattern designs, help gourd enthusiasts use coiled waxed linen and colored thread to enhance their work. 196 color photos show how to trim a gourd
This volume on wicker basketry offers 30 projects, including a Chinese lantern, a picnic basket for one, and a market basket. Clear how-to instructions and photographs accompany each project and a gallery of contemporary baskets aim to offer inspiration.
The directions provided for these 12 projects for one-patch quilts use hundreds of fabrics without repetition. The projects in this book range from the traditional One Thousand Pyramids to contemporary adaptions of Ogee and Mountain Mirage. Each set of instructions includes one-patch basics, expert tips, color plans, and yardage requirements for ...
Baskets as functional and art objects, includes over 300 pictures of baskets from all over the United States and abroad. This pictorial survey of splint, wicker, and coil baskets shows them used for storage, decorating, carrying, winnowing, gathering and trapping. They will inspire basket makers, and the up-to-date price guide will be a help to ...
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The Perfect Basket: Make Your Own Special Occasion Baskets
