Compendium of Lace-Making - Bobbin, Filet, Needle-Point, Netting, Tatting and Much More - Four Volumes in One
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to lace and lace making, with information on bobbin, filet, needle-point, netting, tatting, and much more besides. Written in plain language and full of useful tips, "e;A Compendium of Lace-...
Beginner's Guide to Bobbin Lace
Explore the world of Bobbin Lace with this book, which takes you through simple Torchon ground pieces to scarves, purse and bags. Bobbin lace may look complicated when you see a pillow set up with dozens of bobbins, but it will seem far less daunt...
Introduction to Bobbin Lace Making
Bring Your Lacemaking Skills to a New LevelHeralded as 'a priceless book for the beginner' by the editors of Australian Lace, Introduction to Bobbin Lacemaking is now back in print. Boasting worldwide sales of over 10,000 copies, this seminal guide revitalizes the age-old art of lacemaking and offers a contemporary introduction to this textile art from the 16th century. Created for modern hobbyists, craft enthusiasts, instructors, and educators, artist and lace historian Rosemary Shepard condenses her course from the Australian Lace Guild, breaking down the entire process of bobbin lacemaking from start to finish. Through a series of exercises and readings, Shepard walks the reader through the necessary equipment and materials needed to begin lacemaking, progressing to specialty stitches like the Torchon Ground and Half-Stitch Diamonds. Complete with over 200 illustrative photographs and diagrams, as well as graphs for sketching out unique designs, the guide provides all the basics
Technique of Bobbin Lace
The Comprehensive Guide to Making Exquisite Lace Long considered a classic, The Technique of Bobbin Lace has been a favorite comprehensive instruction manual for decades. Here you will find everything from the materials and tools you need to clearly presented stitching techniques. There is much to be learned from this book by needleworkers of all abilities through the illustrated projects which steadily evolve from basics to advanced techniques. Internationally known lacemaking instructor and author Pamela Nottingham begins with instruction on basic Torchon lace, using 16 patterns which introduces the beginner in building a strong foundation. The precisely written instructions are accompanied by a generous sampling of detailed diagrams, photographs, and prickings clearly illustrating each lesson. The complexity of the projects builds through the book, introducing traditional Bedfordshire, Bucks Point, and Cluny lace patterns. Instruction on joining and mounting lace, pricking
A Compendium of Lace-Making - Bobbin, Filet, Needle-Point, Netting, Tatting and Much More - Four Volumes in One
All manner of lace-making projects, hints and tips are included in this comprenehsive compendium. Extensively illustrated with black and white drawings and diagrams. This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The cont...
Compendium of Wooden Wand Making Techniques
Conjuring up wooden wands might seem like a magical and mysterious process, but the¿Compendium of Wooden Wand Making Techniques¿is here to show you how simple it can be! In the first-ever guide to making wands, you'll learn how to whittle, power c...
A Compendium of Herbal Magick
Every plant has its own distinct spiritual energy or its own deva. Devas are the radiant light of the Universal Divine that permeates all things. Since the earliest times, people were aware that all of Nature is divine. Great and wondrous myths we...
A Compendium of Neuropsychological Tests
The Compendium is an essential guidebook for selecting the right test for specific clinical situations and for helping clinicians make empirically supported test interpretations. BL Revised and updated BL Over 85 test reviews of well-known neurops...
A Compendium of Viking Art
This book features images of all the examples of historical animal ornaments listed in The Anatomy of Viking Art. This makes it a great companion to The Anatomy of Viking Art, but it is also a great collection of references by itself. The book covers all the stylistic periods of Viking Age art (c. 800-1100 CE) in images with references to the origin of each item and where to find it now.
Pillow Lace and Bobbins
Lacemaking was once a widespread cottage industry but now it is growing in popularity as a hobby. This book describes and illustrates different varieties of pillow lace and the tools used in the making of it.'
A Procurement Compendium
The Procurement Compendium is a collection of short articles relating to procurement and supply chain management, first published online via Spend Matters and Public Spend Forum websites. They aim to inform, provoke, occasionally educate and somet...
Illustrated Compendium Of Amazing Animal Facts
An artfully playful collection of fascinating, surprising, and funny facts about animals, each illustrated in whimsical detail by Swedish artist Maja Safstrom. Did you know that an otopus has three hearts? Or that ostriches can't walk backward? These and many more fascinating and surprising facts about the animal kingdom (Bees never sleep! Starfish don't have brains!) are illustrated with whimsical detail in this charming collection.
Making of a Manager
No idea what you're doing? No problem. Good managers are made, not born. Top tech executive Julie Zhuo remembers the moment when she was asked to lead a team. She felt like she d won the golden ticket, until reality came crashing in. She was just ...
Making Of A Manager
Leading a team for the first time is a daunting new endeavor. Facebook's Vice President of Product Design Julie Zhuo presents a bold new guide to getting respect--and results--in your new managerial role. Julie Zhuo remembers the me...
Making of a Manager
Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Making of a Manager written by Julie Zhuo, read by Karissa Vackers.No idea what you're doing? No problem. Good managers are made, not born. Facebook VP Julie Zhuo remembers the moment when she was...
Making of a Milliner
Using beautiful full-color tutorials, Jenny Pfanenstiel teaches the basics of hat-making, from materials and fabric selection to stitching and finishing. All of the projects are scaled for difficulty so that readers can learn each of the highlight...
Making of a Racist
In this powerful memoir, Charles Dew, one of America's most respected historians of the South-and particularly its history of slavery-turns the focus on his own life, which began not in the halls of enlightenment but in a society unequivocally com...
Making of a Leader
From polar explorers and politicians to CEOs and sports coaches, we are fascinated with the makeup of leaders. How do they thrive under pressure and inspire others to do the same? How do they establish a culture of long-term success? Performance p...
Making of a Poem
Two of our foremost poets provide here a lucid, straightforward primer that "looks squarely at some of the headaches and mysteries of poetic form": a book for readers who have always felt that an understanding of form (sonnet, ballad, vi...
Making of a Leader
The Making of a Leader
Making of a Psychoanalyst
In this unique and uplifting work, Dr. Claudia Luiz reveals why psychoanalysis is more relevant than ever, perhaps the only discipline currently suitable to help solve the mystery of our emotional challenges. In gripping stories about people strug...
Making of a Manager
No idea what you're doing? No problem. Good managers are made, not born. Top tech executive Julie Zhuo remembers the moment when she was asked to lead a team. She felt like she'd won the golden ticket, until reality came crashing in. She was just ...
Making of a Sonnet
This illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland, two of our foremost poets, focus on vicissitudes, paying particular attention to how individual p...
Making of a Therapist
Veteran therapist and mental health writer Louis Cozolino's classic text contains all of the things he wished someone had told him during the first weeks and months of his clinical training. Now available in paperback, the book includes guidance a...
Making of a Sociologist
This book offers a journey through the problems and the progress of the discipline of sociology in the UK and Europe throughout the second half of the twentieth century via an exploration of seven social settings from the life of a now eminent soc...
Making of a Marchioness
The Making of a Marchioness
Making of a Quagmire
Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this editi...
