Название: The Art of Bonsai: Creation, Care and Enjoyment
Автор: Yuji Yoshimura, Giovanna M. Halford
Издательство: Tuttle Publishing
Год: 1996
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Learn the ins and outs of proper bonsai design and care with this comprehensive Japanese gardening book. Japanese bonsai have long been admired throughout the world while their care and preservation have seemed shrouded in mystery. The Art of Bonsai is, however, a comparatively simple art to learn. Anyone with a love for plants, a little patience and this eminently practical book can create bonsai and keep a finished plant healthy and vigorous for generations. This classic work remains an eminently practical book and is the classic guide to bonsai care. It contains the essentials of an art that is one of Japan's most treasured traditions—sculpting beauty in living wood.

Название: Art Made from Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed
Автор: Laura Heyenga, Brian Dettmer
Издательство: Chronicle Books
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 130 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Artists around the world have lately been turning to their bookshelves for more than just a good read, opting to cut, paint, carve, stitch or otherwise transform the printed page into whole new beautiful, thought-provoking works of art. Art Made from Books is the definitive guide to this compelling art form, showcasing groundbreaking work by today's most showstopping practitioners. From Su Blackwell's whimsical pop-up landscapes to the stacked-book sculptures of Kylie Stillman, each portfolio celebrates the incredible creative diversity of the medium. A preface by pioneering artist Brian Dettmer and an introduction by design critic Alyson Kuhn round out the collection. Presented in an unusual, tactile package with an exposed spine, this is an essential addition to the libraries of book lovers and art aficionados.

Название: Martha Stewart's Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines
Автор: Martha Stewart
Издательство: Mariner Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 118 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Trust Martha to help you master all things organizing—sorting, purging, tidying, and simplifying your life—with smart solutions and inspiration. Here, she offers her best guidance, methods, and DIY projects for organizing in and around your home. Topics include room-by-room strategies (how to sort office paperwork, when to purge the garage or attic), seasonal advice (when to swap out bedding and clothing, how to put away holiday decorations), and day-by-day or week-by-week plans for projects such as de-cluttering, house cleaning, creating a filing system, overhauling the closet, and more. Martha’s indispensable expertise walks you through goal-setting, principles of organizing, useful supplies, and creating systems for ongoing success. A look into Martha’s own personal calendars offers a template for scheduling essential tasks. Last, plenty of strategies, how-tos, timelines, and checklists will help you stay organized all year long.

Название: #shelfie: How to style and display your collections
Автор: Geraldine James
Издательство: CICO Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 57 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Use your shelves to display your collections and create ever-evolving works of art with Geraldine James’s inspirational ideas. Find out how you can use what you already have in a stylish and unexpected way to revitalize a room. Whether you want to group a collection of colorful vases against a dark wall, use picture rails to line up a selection of prints, or organize plants and treasured finds from the natural world, any shelf can be a stage for artful arrangements with this innovative guide. You can find a home for all your prized possessions, and the best thing about shelves is that you can change a display whenever the mood takes you. Chapter by chapter, discover ideas for how to arrange virtually anything and begin a journey into color, textures, and themes to create elegant focal points that give a home character and charm.

Название: Harry Potter Felt
Автор: Deborah Wilding
Издательство: Thunder Bay Press
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 41 Мб
Язык: английский / English

This kit will teach the skills to craft 11 adorable Harry Potter felt projects. Included are all the materials to make ten projects: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, Snape, and more! Plus instructions for a bonus project—a Monster Book of Monsters cover. Stitch your own collection of Wizarding World-inspired projects using the materials and instructions in Harry Potter Felt! The 64-page instruction book has step-by-step directions and color photos. The kit contains everything you need to make Harry, Hermione, Ron, and seven other projects, including multiple colors of felt, stuffing, a needle, embroidery floss, and die-cut templates. Also included are instructions for a bonus project: a dazzling Monster Book of Monsters cover!

Название: Sew in Style: Make Your Own Doll Clothes
Автор: Erin Hentzel
Издательство: C&T Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Get your amateur designer or stylist sewing with Sew in Style―Make Your Own Doll Clothes, a how-to manual for kids who want to create one-of-a-kind looks for their 18” dolls. Twenty-two trendy clothing and accessory projects―from yoga pants to skinny jeans to a messenger bag―encourage kids to mix and match to design their own unique outfits. Lessons on sewing basics, step-by-step photos, full-size patterns, and projects for all skills levels ensure that your budding designer will have no trouble creating the looks they always wanted for their favorite 18” companions.

Название: The Tunisian Crochet Handbook: A Beginner’s Guide
Автор: Toni Lipsey
Издательство: Abrams
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 129 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From fiber artist Toni Lipsey of TL Yarn Craft, an introduction to the craft of Tunisian crochet—a unique crochet style that looks more like knitting—with 20 projects for beginners. There are hundreds of books that explore traditional crochet, but there are few that reference the concept of Tunisian crochet or present it in a modern, approachable way. The Tunisian Crochet Handbook introduces this fascinating and rewarding technique with a wide array of stitches and design possibilities. The goal of this book is to guide crocheters step-by-step through Tunisian crochet, starting with tools and yarns, transitioning into how-to’s and stitches, and finishing with easy but engaging patterns. The book includes instructional sections and patterns, complete with the necessary schematics and styled, chic photographs.

Название: Bouquets with Personality
Автор: Lucinda Rooney
Издательство: Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 58 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Some flowers are team players, content to let their gently expressive hues and textures take a supporting role in an arrangement or bouquet. Others have a domineering, outgoing nature and always insist on being the center of attention. Recognizing flowers’ differing personalities—and blending the meek and the bold together in unusual, romantic, and harmonious ways—is at the heart of Lucinda Rooney’s floral philosophy. In Bouquets with Personality, Rooney divulges her secrets: the materials and tools she’s most fond of using, her design influences, her theory of color, and, most important, her insightful “psychology” of the botanical realm. It’s that in-depth understanding of how flowers and plants convey emotion that makes this book such an informative and inspirational resource for beginning flower-arrangers, seasoned professionals, and anyone who just loves flowers. The pages are graced, throughout, by Mick Hales’ lovely photos of both individual flowers and completed bouquets.

Название: Literati Style Penjing: Chinese Bonsai Masterworks
Автор: Zhao Qingquan
Издательство: Shanghai Press
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 32 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The art of bonsai is widely known in the West: from the Karate Kid to the American Bonsai Association and even local grocery stores, bonsai has become a common sight in the States. But bonsai, the Japanese art of creating miniature trees, actually originated in China, where it's called penjing. Penjing, meaning "tray scenery," is a traditional Chinese art of creating miniature potted landscapes including trees and other plants. Brought from China to Japan in ancient times before spreading to the West, bonsai/penjing is now popular throughout the world. In China, the art of creating miniature landscapes has evolved in several different ways. Literati Style Penjing: Chinese Bonsai Masterworks focuses on a special category of penjing associated with traditional Chinese culture, such as the painting of the literati, or elite scholar-bureaucrats, of imperial China. Like literati ink paintings, this style of penjing has a subtle elegance distinguished by a lone, lean trunk with sparse foliage exhibiting distinct lines and simplicity.

Название: Penjing: The Chinese Art of Bonsai: A Pictorial Exploration of Its History, Aesthetics, Styles and Preservation
Автор: Zhao Qingquan
Издательство: Shanghai Press
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 32 Мб
Язык: английский / English

With hundreds of color photographs and illustrations, this Chinese gardening book is a wonderful introduction to penjing—China's treasured bonsai art. Although most people thing bonsai is a Japanese invention, the art originated in ancient China where it is called penjing. The two Chinese characters for penjing ("pot" and "landscape") capture the essence of this art: sculpting microcosms of the beauty of the natural world from plants, rocks, soil, and water, both as an artistic process and as horticultural cultivation. Both penjing and bonsai are art forms that express the beauty of nature. In China, bonsai, as a part of penjing, is often called "tree penjing," or "tree in a pot." The Chinese divide penjing into three categories: tree penjing, rock penjing, and water-and-land penjing.