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Book Synopsis Woven Wonder Afghans by : Melissa Leapman Blowney
Download or read book Woven Wonder Afghans written by Melissa Leapman Blowney and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2003-03-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready for a revolutionary new way to crochet? Then get ready to create afghans with two layers that actually weave together to make exciting three-dimensional textures. Each of the six patterns are worked in two alternating colors for maximum impact. Woven Wonder Afghans (Leisure Arts #3442)
Book Synopsis Inspiring Afghans for Swedish Weaving by : Katherine Kennedy
Download or read book Inspiring Afghans for Swedish Weaving written by Katherine Kennedy and published by Annie's Attic. This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These eight beautiful Swedish Weaving afghan patterns by Katherine Kennedy are designed specially for Monk's Cloth. Stitching on Monk's Cloth is easy and makes the perfect fabric for creating cozy afghans, throws and baby blankets.
Book Synopsis Inspiring Afghans for Swedish Weaving by : Katherine Kennedy
Download or read book Inspiring Afghans for Swedish Weaving written by Katherine Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monk's Cloth Afghans for Christmas by : Terrece Beesley
Download or read book Monk's Cloth Afghans for Christmas written by Terrece Beesley and published by Annie's. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monk's cloth is a loosely woven, even-weave fabric used for huck (or huckaback) embroidery, also called Swedish weaving. The authors show you ten festive designs to add cheer to the holiday season, from baby afghans or lap throw size, to a larger size suitable for a sofa afghan or twin bed throw.
Download or read book A Woven Life written by Jenny Housego and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly layered and remarkably candid, this is anything but an ordinary memoir. Life-writing at its truthful and unapologetic best, here is a story of a textile historian, entrepreneur and collector with an eventful and adventurous life story. As a child in countryside England, Jenny had thought she would grow up to be a spy, but life had other plans. Brought to the world of Asian textiles, art and museums, she has over the last five decades travelled across Asia with a passion to document traditional, local, and nomadic weaves and handcrafted textiles. She lays bare her idyllic childhood in the aftermath of the Second World War; her aspirations of being in the arts and then as a researcher at the Victoria and Albert museum in London; the struggles of falling in and out of love and a broken marriage; of parenting; and her passion for Indian textiles, having established herself as one of the most successful British entrepreneurs working in India who co-founded the luxury brands shades of India and kashmir loom.
Book Synopsis Crafting a Colorful Home by : Kristin Nicholas
Download or read book Crafting a Colorful Home written by Kristin Nicholas and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knit, stitch, and paint your way to a more colorful and happy home with color expert and crafter Kristin Nicholas. Learn how to make your home sing through handmade crafts and a bold use of color. Kristin Nicholas, color expert and all-around master crafter, shares her secrets to selecting colors and patterns and explores the variety of crafts and decorating touches that have made her home so unique. Going room by room, Kristin uses her own 1751 farmhouse as a leaping-off point for craft projects perfect for every space. You'll find a range of step-by-step projects to make your home cozy and bright, including knit pillows, embroidered curtains, crocheted blankets, and painted lampshades. Along the way, Kristin also shares DIY techniques on refinishing furniture, faux finishing walls, mural painting, and recycling wool clothes. Full of inspiration, and with vibrant photographs throughout, this is a complete guide to creating a home that reflects your own handmade style.
Download or read book Weave-It Afghans written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Embroidery from Afghanistan by : Sheila Paine
Download or read book Embroidery from Afghanistan written by Sheila Paine and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embroidery from Afghanistan is varied, rich, and sumptuous. This book focuses on over thirty pieces and explores the embroidery of different tribes and their geographical regions. Illustrated in full color and in detail, the textiles included will provide designers at all levels with inspiration for the use of color and pattern in their own designs. In her introduction, Sheila Paine sets the pieces in their social and cultural contexts and investigates the shared traditions of the various tribes. The costumes of men, women, and children are illustrated, as are embroideries for the home and yurt, domestic animals, and precious possessions. Information on decorative techniques, patterning, and stitching is included, together with a technical glossary that supports the main text.
Book Synopsis A Woven World by : Alison Hawthorne Deming
Download or read book A Woven World written by Alison Hawthorne Deming and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part memoir, part cultural history, A Woven World celebrates the fading crafts, industries, and artisans that have defined communities for generations. The desire to create is the cornerstone of civilization. But as we move into a world where machine manufacturing has nearly usurped craft, Alison Hawthorne Deming resists the erasure of our shared history of handiwork with this appeal for embracing continuity and belonging in a time of destabilizing change. Sensing a need to preserve the crafts and stories of our founding communities, and inspired by an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute featuring Yves St. Laurent’s “sardine” dress, Deming turned to the industries of her ancestors, both the dressmakers and designers in Manhattan in the nineteenth century and the fishermen on Grand Manan Island, a community of 2,500 residents, where the dignity of work and the bounty of the sea ruled for hundreds of years. Reweaving the fabric of those lives, A Woven World gives presence on the page to the people, places, and practices, uncovering and preserving a record of the ingenuity and dignity that comes with such work. In this way the lament becomes a song of praise and a testament to the beauty and fragility of human making.
Download or read book Veiled Courage written by Cheryl Benard and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was made by women. Veiled Courage reveals the remarkable bravery and spirit of the women of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), whose daring clandestine activities defied the forces of the Taliban and earned the world’s fierce admiration. The complete subordination of women was one of the first acts of the Taliban. But the women of RAWA refused to cower. They used the burqa to their advantage, secretly photographing Taliban beatings and executions, and posting the gruesome pictures on their multi-language website, rawa.org, which is read around the world. They organized to educate girls and women in underground schools and to run small businesses in the border towns of Pakistan that allowed widows to support their families. If caught, any RAWA activist would have faced sure death. Yet they persisted. With the overthrow of the Taliban now a reality, RAWA faces a new challenge: defeating the powers of Islamic fundamentalism of which the Taliban are only one face and helping build a society in which women are guaranteed full human rights. Cheryl Benard, an American sociologist and an important advisor to RAWA, uses her inside access to write the first behind-the-scenes story of RAWA and its remarkably brave women. Veiled Courage will change the way Americans think of Afghanistan, casting its people and its future in a new, more hopeful light.
Book Synopsis Carpets of Afghanistan by : Richard D. Parsons
Download or read book Carpets of Afghanistan written by Richard D. Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carpets of Afghanistan is without a doubt one of the most detailed analysis of Afghanistan rug production ever published. Author Richard Parsons, for many years a buyer in Afghanistan for the well-known firm O.C.M (London) Ltd, treats the reader not only to a veritable feast of carpets and rugs, all with their attendant tribal origins and motifs vividly explained, but also to a fascinating journey through the history of a diverse and colorful country. The author shares his respect and admiration for Afghanistan's stoic people, who, somehow, despite political upheavals, forced resettlement, a harsh climate and often primitive nomadic conditions, manage to fashion exquisite works of art which reflect their pride in their many-faceted heritage. Afghan rugs, which are instantly appealing due to their traditional colors and bold designs, open up a whole vista for the collector, from sumptuous piled purdahs to flat woven prayer rugs, all of them well illustrated in the 154 color and 90 black and white plates.
Book Synopsis American Spartan by : Ann Scott Tyson
Download or read book American Spartan written by Ann Scott Tyson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated war correspondent. Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America’s war effort in Afghanistan. A decorated Green Beret who spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq training indigenous fighters, Gant argued for embedding autonomous units with tribes across Afghanistan to earn the Afghans’ trust and transform them into a reliable ally with whom we could defeat the Taliban and counter al-Qaeda networks. The military's top brass, including General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, approved, and Gant was tasked with implementing his controversial strategy. Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first spoke with Gant when he was awarded the Silver Star in 2007. Tyson soon came to share Gant’s vision, so she accompanied him to Afghanistan, risking her life to embed with the tribes and chronicle their experience. And then they fell in love. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, American Spartan is their remarkable story—one of the most riveting, emotional narratives of wartime ever published.
Book Synopsis The Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns by : Carol Strickler
Download or read book The Weaver's Book of 8-Shaft Patterns written by Carol Strickler and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This must-have draft book contains almost 1000 different patterns on more than 25 weave structures. Introductory chapters provide a thorough understanding of how each structure works.
Book Synopsis Bokhara, Turkoman and Afghan Rugs by : Hartley Clark
Download or read book Bokhara, Turkoman and Afghan Rugs written by Hartley Clark and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Baluchistan-Nomads-Afghans by : Elizabeth Neuenschwander
Download or read book Baluchistan-Nomads-Afghans written by Elizabeth Neuenschwander and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Afghanistan Photographs 1971-1972 by : Adrian Panaro
Download or read book Afghanistan Photographs 1971-1972 written by Adrian Panaro and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, Arthur Panaro joined the Peace Corps and was posted to Kabul, Afghanistan, to teach English at the University there. A year later, he was joined by his brother Adrian and the two set off to explore the regions surrounding Kabul and beyond. In the process, they shared a camera to record their impressions of the land and its people. This book documents their journey in photographs and essays.
Book Synopsis Nifty Knit Dishcloths by : Leisure Arts
Download or read book Nifty Knit Dishcloths written by Leisure Arts and published by Leisure Arts. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heighten your skill and brighten your kitchen with a cornucopia of knitting stitches. This collection includes 16 dishcloths each in one of four colors. These nifty knits make great gifts for family and friends!
