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Products > Books & Magazines... Specialist craft books are available at Hands and the range changes regularly although there are always our favourites. Subjects include embroidery, lace, woodwork, mosaic, art, calligraphy, decorative painting, dying, knitting and many more. If you are looking for a particular title or subject, please email us. Magazines are available individually or by subscription in a large range of titles also. Products in this section will change often.
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Author: Norma Gregory
Paperback, 114 pages
Here is a collection of designs for pyrographers to use without fear of copyright infringement. Norma Gregory shares her designs with other enthusiasts for the craft, and has supplied additional elements that can be combined to create hundreds of new images. Her clear text explains the best method for tracing the designs and transferring them onto wood, and gives tips on applying shading and colour, and how to finish the piece. Detailed step-by-step illustrations demonstrate how to create new designs from separate elements, with advice on scale and perspective.
NZ price including GST $59.95
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Author: Tomoko Takamori
Amigurumi animals are as fun to make as the word is to pronounce! With this irresistible collection of more than 20 projects, you'll learn how to create the small crocheted creatures that have become the hottest global craft craze.
Cheerful colour photographs, step-by-step directions, and helpful technical illustrations make it easy to whip up sweet woolly lambs, pert pom-pom-tail donkeys, a mischievous seal and more.
Softcover, 88 pages
NZ price including GST $39.99
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Author: Gilian Dye & Adrienne Thunder
A clearly illustrated guide to the stitches and techniques needed to create beautiful bobbin lace. This book includes prickings and easy-to-follow instructions showing how to use them. The authors provide a selection of colourful Torchon lace projects using a variety of yarns: a bag, a purse, scarves and a cushion. Over 200 step-by-step photographs.
A clear, informative introduction to the art of lace making.
Softcover, 80 pages
NZ price including GST $35.00
CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK
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100+ Eco-friendly projects and ideas for everyday living.
CraftCycle is the creative crafter's way to recycling and reusing everyday items destined for the trash or recycling bin. Discover ways to recycle pages of your favourite magazines into a decorative bowl or trash basket, to reuse scrap wood to build a beautiful birdhouse, or recraft broken china and glass into a mosaic flower pot, and more! CraftCycle explores ways to get the most out of every season while impacting the environment the least.
"Some great ideas in this one" - Sarah@Hands
Softcover, 144 pages
NZ price including GST $59.99
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Author: Di Van Niekerk
Designed to appeal to the beginner as well as the more advanced embroiderer, this book will become an invaluable guide for anyone thinking about making fabulous letters and words in ribbon embroidery.
-26 beautiful letters in watercolour, with clear instructions for transferring them on to fabric.
-Numerous gorgeous designs, including embroidered cards, plaques, boxes, journals and baby clothes.
-Packed with useful tips and ideas.
Includes step-by-step demonstrations, easy to follo diagrams and close up photography.
128 pages, softcover
NZ price including GST $44.99
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Craft projects and stories from Jane Austen's novels.
Author: Jennifer Forest
Jane Austin's Sewing Box opens a window into the lives of Regency women during a beautiful period in arts, crafts and design. Author Jennifer Forest examines Jane Austen's novels and letters to reveal a world where women sew their brothers' Irish linen shirts, are gripped by crazes for painting on glass and netting purses. This book forges a link to the women of the late 18th century as it shows you how to sew, knit, paint or net 18 craft projects, such as a Huswife or a Tippet, that are made by Austen's characters.
Softcover, 224 pages
NZ price including GST $39.99
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Author: Dawn Thorne
Acclaimed textile artist Dawn Thorne, shows you how to create stunning transparent and translucent effects.
Packed with innovative techniques using exciting materials, such as acetates, perspex, resins and gels, as well as more traditional media such as fabric and paper. Illustrated with a wealth of examples from leading textile artists.
128 pages, hardcover
NZ price including GST $54.99
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Author: Barbara Willis
Join Barbara as she takes you on a step-by-step journey from designing a colour board to creating three styles of dolls: a beautiful two-dimensional figure, a basic cloth doll with either painted or transferred face, and an elaborately sculpted cloth doll.
Features:
-complete step-by-step instructions
-all templates included
-inspirational gallery by new and well-known doll artists
Softcover, 128 pages (Quarry Books)
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Author: L.K. Ludwig
The artistic collaborations explored in this book, encompass a broad swath of art media and come in many forms, including art journals, altered books, 3D pieces, retreat swaps, mail art and virtual exchanges.
Included in this book are:
-Instructions and tips for organising various types of collaborative ventures
-Interviews with organisers and participants of collaborative projects and examples of their exciting work.
-Techniques such as how to create books that can be added to as they travel and binding structures that can hold paper projects.
Softcover, 144 pages (Quarry Books)
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Author: Anne Field
Collapse weave is an ancient form of weaving largely overlooked by modern weavers. It involves weaving deliberately pleated and puckered fabric which produces a flexibility of movement that makes it easy to wear. Instructions are clearly written and easy to understand, and the book is fully illustrated with examples of the kinds of cloth produced, with clear, easy to follow diagrams.
160 pages, softcover
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Issue 69
As one of the best magazines "Craft Arts International is devoted to the presentation and documentation of creative works". The magazine contains work from artists around the world showing the talent and diversity that exists in this vast field. "A source of ideas, inspiration and creativity."
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Crafting a Business - Make Money Doing What You Love
Author: Kathie Fitzgerald
Have you always wanted to start a career based on your creative passion? Country Living's Crafting a Business can give you the confidence to take the leap. It's filled with encouragement and the sound answers you need to begin fulfilling your hopes and aspirations.
The 31 role models and mentors in the first part of the book offer diverse perspectives. Each business is different, each story unique, and each has something compelling and valuable to say. The second section is a workshop devoted to the practical considerations of starting and running a business, complete with helpful checklists.
Hardback, 192 pages
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Author: Patti Medaris Culea
A dazzling fourth book from this very popular doll maker with a focus on beading techniques and embellishments. Insights into unique beading techniques for faces, embellishments, garments and accessories, wings and more. A gallery of variations from other top international doll artsits gives the reader more inspiration. This book also includes a pattern for one cloth doll and illustrated step-by-step instructions for creating three beautiful beaded dolls. Gorgeous!
128 pages. Soft Cover
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Author: Ann Baldwin
Whether you have formal training n painting or no experience at all, this workshop style book is the perfect guide for any artist interested in integrating the medium of paint into other types of artwork such as surface design, mixed media, collage, altered art, or art journaling. Develop your sense of composition and learn new approaches to abstract art.
Hardback, 144 pages, spiral bound
NZ price including GST $55.00 CURRENTLY OUT OF STOCK
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Author: Jeremy Williams
This book aims to provide beginners and inexperienced carvers with a sound grasp of the techniques of traditional decorative relief carving. The reader is first introduced to the basics of selecting tools and materials; then follows a series of carefully graded projects which build up the carver's skills in a methodical way. Finally, various methods of finishing are described which will show off even the simplest of carvings to best advantage.
A Guild of Master Craftsman Publication
Soft cover, 152 pages
NZ price including GST $59.99
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Authors: Rosemary Crill, Jennifer Wearden and Verity Wilson
Paperback
"The sheer inventiveness of dress is the subject of this volume, which showcases a fabulous array of garments from the V&A's incomparable dress collection ranging from the mountains of Montenegro to the shores of South-East Asia. Specially commissioned photographs and line drawings reveal a breathtaking richness of detail that will not only delight all followers of fashion, but provide a source of inspiration to students and designers alike."
Absolutely gorgeous!
NZ price including GST $75.00
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Author: India Flint
Dyeing with plants is a kind of botanical alchemy, a process that gives beautiful and sometimes surprising results. Eco Colour explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant colour. The book encompasses only ecologically sustainable plant-dye methods using renewable resources, and attempts to take the path of doing the least possible harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a number of entirely new processes developed by the author, as well as guidelines for plant collection, directions for distillation of non-toxic mordants and methodologies for applying plant dyes. This book is aimed at both the novice home dyer and textile professionals. A beautiful book from a very talented Australian!
Hardback, 240 pages
NZ price including GST $65.00
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Author: Gay Eaton. Soft cover 112 pages.
Ukrainian Whitework is a luxuriant, rich, heritage needlework ideal for those special projects that become family heirlooms. Many of the stitches and methods of working Ukrainian whitework are not included in well known stitch dictionaries. This book contains very detailed instructions on stitches with clear photos and illustrations. Finishing techniques are also shown.
NZ price including GST $59.99
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Author: Jennie Hinchcliff, Carolee Gilligan Wheeler
Mail Art is a collaborative art form with a long and fascinating history populated by famous artists as well as everyday practitioners. In this unique primer you'll find information on: mail art etiquette, how to make a traveling mail art kit, creating decorated and illustrated envelopes, making faux postage and artistamps, refining your penmanship, finding pen pals, developing your postal personality and how to start mail art projects. You'll also be inspired by a gallery of mail art from around the globe!
Softcover, 128 pages (Quarry Books)
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Author: Donatela Ciotti
Hardanger embroidery - counted and pulled thread work - forms stunning patterns with a classic look on evenweave fabrics like linen. First learn an assortment of exquisite stitches, from the net motif to alternating linked bars. Then use your new skills on lovely projects, including coordinated place mats and napkins, a lacey doily, pretty curtains, and whimsical candy sachets. A pleasure to work, these versatile designs will brighten your home and make great gifts.
Softcover, 96 pages
NZ price including GST $40.00
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Author: Dorothy Wood
A practical guide to simple sewing techniques for hand and machine. Whether you are cutting out a pattern, making piping or binding, turning hems or deciding which type of zipper or seam to use, concise instructions guide you through each stage, one step at a time. Over 450 specially commissioned photographs and illustrations show all the techniques in simple to follow, step-by-step detail.
Softcover, 96 pages
NZ price including GST $19.99
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Author: Darlene Olivia McElroy & Sandra Duran Wilson
If you have ever tried image transfers or have experienced image transfer mishaps, then Image Transfer Workshop is for you. This book presents step-by-step techniques for 35 image transfer processes, extensive tips for fixing mishaps and examples of how to combine transfers in finished pieces of mixed-media art.
Softcover, 126 pages
NZ price including GST $65.00
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Author: Jean Campbell & Judith Durant
Working with your own "canvas" of beads, thread, and techniques from stringing to weaving, you'll learn to recreate the colours, textures, and forms of the Impressionist movement, an art style known for its energetic strokes of colour and sensual effects. The authors have designed 12 beadwork projects inspired by their favourite masterpieces by some of the world's finest artists. You'll find a photograph of the piece of art that inspired each project and detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations for beading it too. Make all 12, and soon you'll be designing your own works of art!
Softcover, 96 pages
NZ price including GST $39.99
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Author: Lexi Boeger
This thoughtful book presents a feast for the eyes, inspiration for the mind, and projects for the hands. The book includes thoughts on how to balance new techniques with a respect for tradition, recipes for spinning non-traditional yarns, illustrated journal entries documenting experimental creations, exciting and project ideas with tips on working with unusual yarns, and a gallery of luscious photographs of handspun yarn. If you have ever wanted to experiment spinning fabric or textured chunky yarns, this is the book for you.
Hardcover, 304 pages
NZ price including GST $65.00
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Always a comprehensive range of projects ranging from beginner to advanced. Full beading instructions are included in each issue. Hands are now also carrying a range of Delica beads used in this magazine.
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Author: Priscilla Hauser
Known as the first lady of decorative painting, Priscilla will show you how to make a big impact on a small canvas to evoke a variety of landscapes. She begins with techniques for capturing common landscape elements, such as sky, mountains, a waterfall and buildings. Hauser then provides fifteen lovely projects to teach you how to pull these elements together into small works of art, perfect for displaying on tables, bookshelves and other places where they can be viewed at close range.
Softcover, 128 pages
NZ price including GST $39.99
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Author: Lotta Jansdotter
Lotta Jansdotter shows you how to print like a pro. Inside you will find simple directions for:
Rubber Stamping
Iron-On Transfers
Leaf Printing
Stencil Art
Potato Printing
Lino-Block Printing
Screen Printing
Plus, she has included ready-to-use original stencil designs at the back!
Softcover, 120 pages (including stencils)
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Authors: Hava & Danny Ronat
This book teaches you everything you need to know about making decorative lampwork glass beads - and using them! Inside you'll discover clear guidelines on how to make the beads -from start to finish- and a full explanation of the tools and materials you will be working with. Step-by-step instructions and full-colour photographs illustrate how simple it is to turn your handmade beads or any other glass beads in your collection into wearable art. You'll find projects for making a range of unique pieces of jewellery with your new beads, as well as projects that will show you how to combine handmade beads with other beads to maximise their splendor and really show off their distinct beauty.
Softcover, 126 pages
NZ price including GST $40.00
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This magazine is always full of beautiful ideas for knitting, recipes, home decor, clothing, embroidery and more.
Put some European flair into what you create - highly recommended by all the staff at Hands!
NZ price including GST $18.00
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Author: Susan Webb Tregay
Follow Susan Webb Tregay's five steps to more successful watercolours, and learn how to finish your painting your way, with polish and pizzazz! You'll discover clean and easy solutions to your painting's problems, debunking once and for all that old myth that watercolour is unforgiving. Fifteen step-by-step demonstrations and many before-and-after examples illustrate the incredible difference these simple techniques can make in your art.
Hardback, 128 pages (F & W Publications)
NZ price including GST $79.99
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Authors: Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke
Quilters Sarah Fielke and Kathy Doughty, owners of popular patchwork shop Material Obsession, share 23 of their distinctive, colourful and contemporary designs. They explain how anyone, even those who don't think they are "creative", can confindently choose colours and patterns to create bold, easy-to-make quilts, perfect for today's busy craftspeople, be they novices or experienced quiltmakers. Also included is a techniques section, with step-by-step photographs, that explains the basics of patchwork and quilting.
Softcover, 206 pages (Murdoch Books)
NZ price including GST $55.00
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Author: Kathy Doughty and Sarah Fielke
With their reinterpretation of traditional designs, as well as characteristic bold use of dazzling colour and patterns, Kathy and Sarah's quilts will appeal to quilters af all levels - from new quiltmakers looking for the next challenge, to experienced quilters, ready to embrace some of the more comples projects. With practical step-by-step instructions, a comprehensive Basics section and glorious photos, this is a book to make your fingers tingle with sheer inspiration.
Softcover, 222 pages (Murdoch Books)
NZ price including GST $55.00
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Author: Cathi Milligan
Inside this book you will learn step by step the basic techniques of macrame as well as how to create 25 projects from yarn, leather, cord and even wire. Your wardrobe will never be the same once you start creating necklaces, bracelets and earrings for every occasion, belts to match any outfit, incredibly soft and cozy scarves and even one of a kind purses and bags.
Let Mod Knots show you all there is to love about macrame!
Softcover, 126 pages
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Author: Tracie Lyn Huskamp
Mixed media techniques for gathering, sketching, painting, journaling and assemblage. With nature as your muse, this lovely book featuring the distinct artwork and techniques of mixed-media artist Tracie Lyn Huskamp will help you discover artistic ways to celebrate our inspiring connections to the natural world.
-Find tips for photographing nature, collecting and preserving natural elements.
-Learn wonderful ways to capture special moments and create memories through simple sketches from photographs and painting on fabric.
-Find unique ways to create nature journals, shadowbox assemblages, accessories, and more.
Softcover, 112 pages (Quarry Books)
NZ price including GST $59.99
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Author Joan Whale.
Christchurch artist Joan, Whale has written her second book featuring a number of New Zealand flora and fauna designs. 20 Folk Art projects are included, all featuring detailed instructions on techniques and colours.
Softcover
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Author: Laura Birek
Picture Perfect Knits puts at your fingertips, everything you need to know to design entirely original projects using intarsia. Work a cute cupcake into a plain pillow, knit a bright argyle motif into a sock, or stitch the state of Texas onto a handbag. Seventy-five pattern grids, plus step-by-step directions, make it a cinch to personalise all your knitting projects - no matter how big or small.
Softcover, 128 pages
NZ price including GST $39.99
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32 Pretty little projects elevate the cozy from humble to cool.
Get cozy with the hippest, cleverest, most colourful cover-ups, wrap and snugs! In addition to chic covers for such everyday indispensables as music players, books, cell phones and coffee cups, there are fabulous wraps to cuddle delightfully unexpected objects like a sewing machine, a pint of sorbet, and even a french coffee press. You'll find the lowdown on materials, embellishment techniques, and fundamental construction methods in the basics section. Then it's on to the cozies!
Hardcover, 132 pages (Lark Books)
NZ price including GST $44.99
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Lark Books
From ultra-feminine to vintage chic, from whimsicaly colourful to downright offbeat, these cutting edge pincushions redefine the form. Created by a group of inventive artists, the thirty original projects are small canvases designed to showcaase fabulous fabric, different embellishments, and novel ideas. Practical and gorgeous at the same time!
Hardback, 128 pages
NZ price including GST $49.99
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This magazine is for contemporary quilters and fabric artists. Quilting Arts features projects, artist profiles, competitions, ads (always interesting in a magazine such as this!) and many quilts to inspire. Hours of sumptuous reading!
Bimonthly.
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Author: Trish Burr
Early 19th century botanical artist, Frenchman Pierre Joseph Redoute, left the world a legacy of hundreds of wonderful flower paintings. In turn these paintings have inspired this collection of delicate embroideries by Trish Burr.
Trish has reproduced seventeen paintings in amazing detail, using only the simplest of stitches to create a remarkably complex effect. Step-by-step instructions are included for each embroidery - fabric, thread, stitches - which will allow both the novice and the experienced embroiderer to create their own stunning botanical collection.
Softcover, 94 pages
NZ price including GST $45.00
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Author: Lorna Moffat
Inside this stunning colourful book, Moffat describes her creatively unorthodox techniques "It's about breaking rules, which is always good fun!" Moffat's dramatic projects start with simple techniques - tear, fuse, layer and stitch, leaving unfinished edges and ravelled threads.
Her projects include lots of uses for all those scrap fabrics quilters are notorious for hoarding. Stitching adds detail and depth to the designs. Peppered through the book are her inspiring photos from her exotic stays in Malaysia, Turkey and Scotland.
Softcover, 144 pages
NZ price including GST 65.00
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Authors: Andrew Jones and Clive George
This concise introduction to the art and craft of stickmaking presents a diverse range of traditional sticks and crooks, including one and two piece wooden sticks, sticks and crooks in antler and horn, Cardigan sticks and market sticks.
Topics covered include:
-Sourcing and seasoning wood
-Adapting material
-Shaping and shanking handles
-Fitting collars
_Decorating, colouring and finishing
A Guild of Master Craftsman Publication
Softcover, 148 pages
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Author: Heather Holland-Daly
Heather puts a new twist on the classic craft of cross-stitch with this collection of over 25 stylish, witty, and playful designs for the modern stitcher. Decorate your home or office with stitched graffiti quotes or vibrant stitched tattoos for clothing, accessories or home decor.
Learn the basic supplies and stitches for getting started, plus Heather's creative ways of designing your own original projects along the way. Whether you are an experienced needleworker looking for a fresh take on cross-stitch or a complete beginner, Stitch Graffiti has everything you need to stitch with success.
Softcover, 106 pages
NZ price including GST $39.99
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Author: Jenny Dowde
Surface Works is a new book from Jenny Dowde following on from her previous Freeform knitting and crochet books. This book is about adding surface decoration to plain knitted or crocheted backgrounds. Jenny approaches some of her 35 projects in a traditional way, others in a somewhat freeform manner, and provides a wealth of suggestions for creating textured surfaces in knitting, crochet, using fancy yarns, making your own braids and cords, using the collage technique - and seeking design inspiration from computer programmes - all beautifully illustrated and explained in clear detail. There are also countless ways of using store bought braids and trims, beads, buttons, lace inserts, and all kinds of 'found' objects, to create interesting surfaces.
Softcover, 192 pages
NZ price including GST $49.99
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Author: Jenn Docherty
Sweet Needle Felts teaches you how to use wool roving or yarn to create beautiful, touchable, felt projects. Learn to embellish everything from wearable accessories, like scarves and hats, to favourite items for the home, such as pillows and photo albums. If you're feeling more adventurous, move on to sculpting wool into one-of-a-kind bowls, necklaces and even cute critters and dolls. Whether you're adding a finishing touch or starting a project from scratch, Sweet Needle Felts shows you the endless possibilities of needlefelting.
All 25 projects in Sweet Needle Felts require just a little time and a few materials. You'll want to make these gifts for dear friends - but you better make two, because you'll fall in love yourself.
Softcover, 128 pages
NZ price including GST $44.99
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Author: Frances and Tony Tompson
For spinners, weavers, knitters and embroiderers. In straightforward non-technical terms, and using colour photos, the Tompsons give instructions for using all types of synthetic dye. They show in detail the different effects on a whole range of fibres and yarns, and how to mix colours to produce your own unique results.
Hardback, 134 pages (1987 publication)
NZ price including GST $69.95
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Author: Ann Parr
Anne Parr's unique and awe-inspiring art of stitching on metal is showcased in this stunning book. Using mainly machine stitching, her work ranges from jewellery to richly decorated boxes and panels, and represents a rare fusion of traditional and contemporary methods and design which cannot fail to excite and inspire.
-Packed with stunning photographs of Ann's own work
-Eleven beautiful items to make, with clear, step-by-step instructions
-A comprehensive source of information on materials, equipment and techniques.
Hardcover, 128 pages
NZ price including GST $69.99
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Author: Patricia Monahan
The techniques and projects in this book cover all aspects of drawing and painting people, from drawing the moving figure and groups of people to working on specific areas of the body such as hands and feet or the male torso.
The unique approach of this book is so simple that the reader can start immediately on original and exciting projects. The book gives practical guidance on choosing the best materials and equipment and each section includes a gallery of works by other artists to inspire the beginner. The exercises and projects cover a variety of media, from graphite to watercolour and oil painting.
Softcover, 216 pages
NZ price including GST $34.99
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Author: Kelly Doust
The Crafty Minx is about making simply gorgeous things from preloved, remnant and vintage items. Written especially for non-crafters who are desperate to be more creative but don't know how, author Kelly Doust shares the delicious rewards of living with and giving away beautiful handmade objects. Included are more than 75 projects - from summer beach bags to cahsmere covered hot water bottles - which give traditional crafts a modern makeover. Featuring innovative ways to get creative, it reflects the huge cultural shift taking place towards recycling and buying locally.
Softcover, 270 pages
NZ price including GST $45.00
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Author: Terry White
Make your quilts come alive with the exciting texture and colour that freemotion machine thread painting can give. Start with the basics, each lesson building on the ones before, teaching all about threads, needles, stabilizers, and more. Follow her tips and tricks, gleaned from years of experience, and apply the many designs to quilts, wallhangings, home decor items and clothing. A visually exciting book.
Softcover, 110 pages
NZ price including GST $75.00
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Author: Julia D Gray
According to tradition, students of Japanese embroidery must watch a master at work and 'steal the knowledge'. Here, Julia shares her passion for this exquisite craft, revealing her in-depth knowledge of the skills and symbolism involved. Detailed instructions reveal the intricacies of working with silk thread and silk fabric, and clear step-by-step photographs show how to create beautiful embroideries inspired by the four seasons.
Hardback, 94 pages with spiral binding
NZ price including GST $35.99
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Author: Billy Showell
Billy Showell's exquisitely executed watercolour portraits of fruit and vegetables give an unconventional, often amusing, twist to traditional botanical studies, taking them on to a new and exciting contemporary level. Packed with information, expert advice and guidance on materials, drawing, colour mixing, composition, painting techniques and more.
Features four stunning step-by-step projects, plus many smaller studies demonstrating different techniques throughout the book. The book also features numerous examples of Billy's beautiful paintings to guide and inspire you.
Hardcover, 128 pages
NZ price including GST $59.99
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Author: Robert Chapman
Robert Chapman's years of experience and insight ensure that this is the first in-depth study of hollow-turning, box-making and bowl-turning techniques in a single volume to combine new ideas with fresh applications.
The introductory chapters cover all aspects of woodturning that novice and intermediate turners need to learn to unleash their full potential, including:
-advice on laying out and equipping the workshop
-tips on how tools and machinery can be improved and adapted
wisdom on obtaining and converting timber
-reverse chucking
The work is lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs and clear line drawings, enabling intermediate and experienced turners to follow the projects without continuous reference to the detailed information in the text.
A Guild of Master Craftsman Publication
Softcover, 214 pages
NZ price including GST $69.99
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Author: Hillary Bowen
This is a highly practical guide to the fascinating craft of turning jewellery from wood. Woodturners of all abilities will find plenty to challenge them, and much to enjoy, in creating these delightful and beautiful adornments. There are 12 step-by-step projects which you can follow to produce a whole range of jewellery, including earrings, bangles, brooches, rings and necklaces.
You can then learn how to decorate what you have created with such techniques as wire inlay, staining and dyeing, beading, scorch rings, inlaying beads and gemstones, paints, inks and powder, gold leaf and carving.
A Guild of Master Craftsman Publication
Softcover, 152 pages
NZ price including GST $69.99
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