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Windows of Distinction: Collection One
This luscious, colorful book contains 108 color photographs of leaded glass window installations and 46 detailed line drawings rendered in a professional client proposal format. This collection is drawn from the studio designer's portfolio of …
9x9 Lives Cat Designs Project Book: 9 Adaptations of 9 Patterns, a Total of 81 Plus Projects
This is not a pattern book, but rather a project book that contains patterns. They can be used as is, or adapted for numerous projects. Think of them as general templates with which you can create your own projects. Consider this more of a "…
Art Glass Inspirations: 32 Full Size Patterns for Free Form Window Lightners
The 32 full-size designs in this book range from window lightners of sports figures, pets, flowers and birds to 5 fan lamp designs including a 1950's Caddy. The most exciting feature of the designs in this collection is the surface paint effects. …
Crown Lynn: A New Zealand Icon
Crown Lynn china now has iconic status. From its early days of churning out railway china, Crown Lynn became a hugely successful business and the largest pottery in the Southern Hemisphere. The New Lynn factory closed in 1989, but their domestic …
The 25 full-size lampshade designs in this book range from small night-stand styles, elaborate dining room swags, wall sconces with matching swag lamps, plus 3 of the popular inverted ceiling style shades. The majority are medium size shades, …
Patterns for Terrariums & Planters: Design for 30 Complete Projects
This book demonstrates how to combine the satisfaction of horticulture with the craft of stained glass. 30 unique plant container designs cover a wide range of applications from simple plant pots to elaborate terrariums in sizes and styles to …
The Legacy of Maria Poveka Martinez
Maria Martinez, probably the most famous American Indian artist of the 20th century, elevated a dying regional art form of magnificent burnished black ware pottery into one of international recognition and acclaim. Lavishly illustrated with over …
Basic Stained Glass Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started
This highly detailed guide contains everything the beginner needs to know to make basic stained glass projects—presented with lavish color illustrations and precise instructions that eliminate the guesswork from each step-by-step activity.
This book is designed to facilitate assured attribution of glass to Dino Martens via designs from and techniques. This is the definitive catalogue of Dino Martens' work in glass. Text in English and German.
Porcelain Doll Design and Creation: Including Patterns for Dolls Clothing
truly instructional book for making beautiful porcelain dolls with cloth bodies. Brigitte Von Messer has been making dolls for many years, and with this book she shares her secrets, techniques, tips, and sculpting skills with you. You will learn …
Fourteen Families in Pueblo Pottery
Like Seven Families, this updated and greatly enlarged version by Rick Dillingham, who curate the original exhibition, includes portraits of the potters, color photographs of their work, and a statement by each potter about the work of his or her …
Designs wrought originally either in stone or minute chips of inlaid stone or glass.
This book is the first to examine the growth of Spanish maiolica and its subsequent transfer to and florescence in colonial Mexico. The 145 examples of maiolica — from the Museum of International Folk Art (Museum of New Mexico) — are photographed …
Introduction to Stained Glass: A Teaching Manual
Since it first appeared in 1985, Introduction to Stained Glass has become the definitive standard for teaching and learning stained glass techniques. Step-by-step instructions cover both copperfoil and lead came fabrication. The well-written text …
When Rain Gods Reigned: From Curios to Art at Tesuque Pueblo
Despite at times being dismissed as tourist "kitsch, " Tesuque's popular rain god figurines have been continuously produced for more than 120 years, making them the longest-lasting figurative art tradition in the Southwest. What began in the …
Windows of Elegance: Collection Two
This design studio portfolio contains 108 color photographs of leaded glass window installation and 48 detailed line drawings rendered in a professional proposal format. This collection is drawn from the designer archive at Glass Reflections of …
Classic Alphabets: Full Size Alphabets & Numerals
This book contains three complete alphabet font styles and two numeral styles. There are 20 line drawings of project ideas for use in traditional stained glass or etching. The special instructional section covers designing with letters and …
Sabine Selvais is a natural artist with an eye for nature and the 19 floral designs included in this book illustrate just how keen her creative eye really is. Each project includes a color photograph of the completed window plus an additional …
Everyone interested in pottery and crafts will find this practical guide a valuable addition to both bookshelf and workshop. Penny Simpson, an English potter living in Japan, and Kanji Sodeoka, her Japanese colleague, have compiled a step-by-step …
When Rain Gods Reigned: From Curios to Art at Tesuque Pueblo
Despite at times being dismissed as tourist "kitsch, " Tesuque's popular rain god figurines have been continuously produced for more than 120 years, making them the longest-lasting figurative art tradition in the Southwest. What began in the …
China has the longest and most highly developed ceramic tradition in the world, encompassing early Neolithic earthenwares, the finely glazed stoneware pieces of the Song period — widely regarded as among the greatest ceramics ever produced — and …
Mimbres Classic Mysteries: Restructuring a Lost Culture Through Its Pottery
The figurative pottery designs of Mimbres classic culture (A.D. 1000-1150) have long inspired archaeologists, artists, designers, and Southwest travelers alike. Today there is still relatively little known about the Mimbres people who depicted …
Classic Stoneware of Japan: Shino and Oribe
The authors offer a comprehensive, visual, kiln-by-kiln survey of Shino and Oribe ware. Illustrations.
Ceramica y Cultura: The Story of Spanish and Mexican Mayaaa1/2lica
Brought to Spain in the thirteenth century by Islamic artisans, the enameled earthenware known as maylica is decorated with a lead glaze to which tin oxide is added to create an opaque white surface. By the fifteenth century, several areas in …
The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics
Ogata Kenzan (1663-1743) is celebrated as Japan's first and foremost individual potter. His reputation is both a product of his own time and of the modern age: the esteem in which he was held in Japan was ignited in the West as critics, art …
Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral
The newly-cleaned stained glass of Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, England is a revelation - the vibrant colour and breathtaking detail are newly visible to today's visitors. The finest of this glass will be reproduced within a lavishly designed …
Keramik in Deutschland: The Hinder Reimers Collection
Text in German. Comprehensive documentation of ceramic work in Germany since 1955.
Russian Imperial Porcelain Easter Eggs
In Russia, where the celebration of the Resurrection is the most important event in the Orthodox calendar, the exchange of real, decorated eggs as gifts at Easter has for centuries been a central ritual of the festival. Exquisitely decorated …
Ceramic tiles are one of the oldest and most universally employed forms of architectural decoration. This eye-catching book explores the visual richness of the subject in depth, describing the variety of techniques used by decorative tile …
Ever since 1764, when Johan Winckelmann compared the drawings on ancient Greek vases to the work of Renaissance masters, these vases have been among antiquity's most widely collected artefacts. But while recent scholarly interest in the nature of …