Author: Bea Brock Publisher: Ampry Publishing, LLC ISBN: 0811760022 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
Finally--a book on how to use up odds and ends, those pieces of wool leftover from other projects. Colorful and contemporary, Scrappy Hooked Rugs guides rug hookers toward color planning and beautiful projects. • Stash-busting ideas for hooked rugs • Stash-happy color planning made easy • Contemporary scrappy rugs from the experts • Free scrappy rug patterns
Author: Gail Lambert Publisher: ISBN: 9781945550140 Category : Rugs, Hooked Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
"Come with us into the colorful world of Celtic rug hooking, a world full of amazing designs. Celtic rug expert Gail Lambert leads us through the process of color planning and hooking these appealing designs, with tips and suggestions on deciphering and untangling a pattern, outlining the complex details, and finishing your hooked piece. As a special treat, Gail included seven Celtic recipes for the busy rug hooker. Color planning and hooking Celtic rugs. Illuminated Letters, fanciful birds and creatures. Simple and complicated Celtic knots. Gallery of 20 Celtic rugs. 12 intriguing designs by master designer David Rankine."--Publisher description.
Author: Jane Olson Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 9781881982463 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
Features 30 years of articles from Jane Olson's Rugger's Roundtable Learn the best techniques of hooking a rug from beginning to end Detailed step-by-step directions and easy-to-follow text plus how to hook the same design four different ways Using Jane Olson's 30 years of articles from her Rugger's Roundtable as a base, The Rug Hooker's Bible, brought to you by Rug Hooking magazine, is an easy-to-use standard text for beginner and teacher alike. Decades of experience is edited, expanded, and updated so students can easily study the very best techniques of hooking a rug. See how the same designs can be hooked in as many as four different ways-fine shaded, primitive outline and fill, dip dyed, and with artistic scraps. This book is an indispensable tool for all levels of hookers.
Author: Tina Ignell Publisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing ISBN: 9781570763700 Category : Hand weaving Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
With its beautiful and clear illustrations, this guide to rug weaving is an inspiring journey into a world of dazzling color and eye-catching design. From classic stripes to pattern-woven designs, detailed directions are provided for 45 rugs that represent a wide range of weaving techniques. Beginning with stripe and check weaves in simple tabby, the rugs progress in difficulty to intriguing challenges such as chenille, drall, diamond twill, rag inlay, repp, and rosepath weaves. Creative approaches to materials show how to cut strips from favorite old shirts, sheets, and jeans, and the emphasis throughout is on creative flair, imaginative design, and the pleasure of making a one-of-a-kind rug imbued with memories.
Author: Gail Dufresne Publisher: Ampry Publishing, LLC ISBN: 1881982718 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 106
Book Description
Geometric hooked rugs may look simple, but they are a challenge to do well. Well-known rug designer Gail Dufresne explains the elements and principles of design, including balance and unity, repetition, proportion, and movement. Learn how to color-plan your geometric rug, including how to use color values effectively. The author describes her signature look of superimposing figures on top of complex geometric backgrounds. The book is full of tips and techniques for dyeing the wool, finishing the rug, and designing your own patterns. Gail Dufresne is a rug hooking teacher, artist, and designer, well known for her innovative designs and vibrant colors. She is a frequent contributor to Rug Hooking magazine. She is highly regarded in the field and travels throughout the United States and Canada from her home in New Jersey to teach at rug hooking camps and schools.
Author: Janice Sonnen Publisher: Schiffer Craft ISBN: 9780764334672 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Rug hookers, seamstresses, and all who love traditional textile crafts will delight in this book, examining a much-loved but little-published historic art form of penny rugs. Learn the history of penny rugs, how they were made, and where they originated, illustrated with wonderful antique examples. Color illustrated instructions walk you through basic skills to create a penny rug, with advice on materials to get you started. Patterns provide you with wonderful designs, including charming sheep, watermelon, crows, and the tulips and hearts so beloved in primitive arts. Additionally, various basic penny rug outlines will help you on your way to creating your own appliqué masterpieces.
Author: Lisa Wells Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN: 0374716587 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
"An essential document of our time." —Charles D’Ambrosio, author of Loitering In search of answers and action, the award-winning poet and essayist Lisa Wells brings us Believers, introducing trailblazers and outliers from across the globe who have found radically new ways to live and reconnect to the Earth in the face of climate change We find ourselves at the end of the world. How, then, shall we live? Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale. She did not need to be convinced of the stakes, but she could not find practical answers. She embarked on a pilgrimage, seeking wisdom and paths to action from outliers and visionaries, pragmatists and iconoclasts. Believers tracks through the lives of these people who are dedicated to repairing the earth and seemingly undaunted by the task ahead. Wells meets an itinerant gardener and misanthrope leading a group of nomadic activists in rewilding the American desert. She finds a group of environmentalist Christians practicing “watershed discipleship” in New Mexico and another group in Philadelphia turning the tools of violence into tools of farming—guns into ploughshares. She watches the world’s greatest tracker teach others how to read a trail, and visits botanists who are restoring land overrun by invasive species and destructive humans. She talks with survivors of catastrophic wildfires in California as they try to rebuild in ways that acknowledge the fires will come again. Through empathic, critical portraits, Wells shows that these trailblazers are not so far beyond the rest of us. They have had the same realization, have accepted that we are living through a global catastrophe, but are trying to answer the next question: How do you make a life at the end of the world? Through this miraculous commingling of acceptance and activism, this focus on seeing clearly and moving forward, Wells is able to take the devastating news facing us all, every day, and inject a possibility of real hope. Believers demands transformation. It will change how you think about your own actions, about how you can still make an impact, and about how we might yet reckon with our inheritance.
Author: Adrian Frutiger Publisher: ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.
Book Description
• Internationally known juried exhibit of the year's best hand-hooked rugs • 76 beautiful hooked rugs • 59 close-up details • Includes both traditional and original rugs Each year, expert judges choose the best hand-hooked rugs from the many rugs entered into the annual juried competition known as Celebration. Now in its 23rd year, the competition showcases rugs from all over the US, Canada, and from around the world. Each winning rug is presented in a full-color spread that includes a photo of the rug, a close-up detail highlighting fine workmanship, and comments from the artist and the judges. Celebration is eagerly awaited each year and is overflowing with inspiration for all who are interested in fiber arts.
Author: Bea Brock
Author: Gail Lambert
Author: Jane Olson
Author: Judy Taylor
Author: Tina Ignell
Author: Gail Dufresne
Author: Janice Sonnen
Author: Lisa Wells
Author: Adrian Frutiger
Author: Rug Hooking Magazine