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Harvesting Color: How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes
Harvesting Color: How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes
by Rebecca Burgess
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Selection of the Crafters’ Choice Book ClubBeautiful natural dyes from plants found in the wild or grown in your own backyard. As more and more crafters are discovering, dyeing your own fabric can yield gorgeous colors. Now master dyer Rebecca Burgess... (read more)

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Ikat Patterns
Ikat Patterns
by Pepin Press
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Die Agile Rabbit Editions enthalten ansprechende Bilder, die als Ausgangsmaterial für graphische Zwecke oder als Anregung genutzt werden können. Alle Abbildungen sind in hoher Auflösung auf der beiliegenden Gratis-CDRom gespeichert und... (read more)

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Felting for Baby: 25 Warm & Woolly Projects for the Little Ones in Your Life (Make Good: Crafts + Life)
Felting for Baby: 25 Warm & Woolly Projects for the Little Ones in Your Life (Make Good: Crafts + Life)
by Saori Yamazaki
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Every item is a little sweeter when it’s made with materials that are just right, and the soft, warm, and durable nature of wool felt makes it the perfect material for the little ones in your life. The twenty-five felted projects in this book—... (read more)

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The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes: Personalize Your Craft with Organic Colors from Acorns, Blackberries, Coffee, and Other Everyday Ingredients
The Handbook of Natural Plant Dyes: Personalize Your Craft with Organic Colors from Acorns, Blackberries, Coffee, and Other Everyday Ingredients
by Sasha Duerr
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Buttery yellow from garden weeds or gorgeous garnet-red dye from flowers — achieving stunning colors for your fabric, yarn, and other natural materials is almost as easy as boiling water, with ingredients as close as your spice cabinet and as... (read more)

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Cloth Dolls for Textile Artists
Cloth Dolls for Textile Artists
by Ray Slater
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Presenting the basic principles and techniques of doll making, this book provides patterns for different shapes of dolls—from the simple stump doll to the more complicated joint doll—as well as practical instruction on needle-sculpting... (read more)

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Shadowfolds: Surprisingly Easy-To-Make Geometric Designs in Fabric
Shadowfolds: Surprisingly Easy-To-Make Geometric Designs in Fabric
by Jeffrey Rutzky
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Shadowfolds are a rich blend of traditional motifs expressed in a contemporary style. The technique, pioneered by artist Chris K. Palmer, creates patterns from a single, uncut panel of cloth, using a simple, three-step process. In Shadowfolds, Jeff... (read more)

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Wild Color: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Natural Dyes
Wild Color: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Natural Dyes
by Jenny Dean
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The best resource on natural dyeing is back, updated to make your colorful hobby even more beautiful and rewarding.   A practical and inspiring guide to creating and using natural dyes from plants, Wild Color, Revised and Updated Edition, offers the... (read more)

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Pattern Factory [With CDROM]
Pattern Factory [With CDROM]
by Ayako Terashima
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Pattern Factory shines a light on unconventional contemporary patterns created by cutting edge illustrators and graphic designers and showing how these unique patterns are created, applied to products, and presented in stores. With full-color... (read more)

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String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art
by Elissa Auther
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String, Felt, Thread presents an unconventional history of the American art world, chronicling the advance of thread, rope, string, felt, and fabric from the "low" world of craft to the "high" world of art in the 1960s and 1970s and... (read more)

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Reprodepot Pattern Book: Folk: 225 Vintage-Inspired Textile Designs
Reprodepot Pattern Book: Folk: 225 Vintage-Inspired Textile Designs
by Djerba Goldfinger
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Charming? Yes. Handy? And how This delightful collection offers 225 vintage-inspired textile patterns ready to print out and craft up. The book pages feature the colorful designs from which users can choose to reproduce from the included disk. The... (read more)

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The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook: More Than 200 Fibers, from Animal to Spun Yarn
The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook: More Than 200 Fibers, from Animal to Spun Yarn
by Deborah Robson
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This one-of-a-kind photographic encyclopedia features more than 200 animals and the fibers they produce. It covers almost every sheep breed in the world -- from the longwool breeds of the United Kingdom to the Tasmanian merino, the Navajo churro, the... (read more)

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Exploring Textile Arts : the Ultimate Guide To Manipulating, Coloring, and Embellishing Fabrics (02 Edition)
Exploring Textile Arts : the Ultimate Guide To Manipulating, Coloring, and Embellishing Fabrics (02 Edition)
by Creative Publishing International Staff
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The ultimate guide to manipulating, coloring, and embellishing fabrics. Discover nearly 50 fabulous techniques for creating one-of-a-kind designer fabrics using your imagination as the guide.... (read more)

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The Primary Structures of Fabrics: An Illustrated Classification
The Primary Structures of Fabrics: An Illustrated Classification
by Irene Emery
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Based on years of study of a huge range of fabrics produced by hand or by strictly limited mechanization, its essential strength is its universality. In this monumental work, the structures and the descriptive terms applied to them are clearly presented... (read more)

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Textiles of Central and South America
Textiles of Central and South America
by Angela Thompson
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The rich textile traditions of Central and South America stem from a society whose culture is firmly rooted in the weaving of cloth. This book looks at both the differences and the similarities between the weaving and textile techniques and traditions of... (read more)

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Batik, Tie Dyeing, Stenciling, Silk Screen, Block Printing: The Hand Decoration of Fabrics
Batik, Tie Dyeing, Stenciling, Silk Screen, Block Printing: The Hand Decoration of Fabrics
by Francis J Kafka
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Outstanding guide to the most popular methods of painting, dyeing, and printing on fabrics. Wealth of illustrations, tips on easily obtained equipment and materials, design and project suggestions, how to get best results. 356 illustrations.... (read more)

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Imagery on Fabric: a Complete Surface Design Handbook
Imagery on Fabric: a Complete Surface Design Handbook
by Jean Ray Laury
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Jean Ray Laury takes the reader step-by-step through techniques and technology for transferring images to fabric, with full-color photos and information on how to safely accomplish beautiful results. She leaves nothing unexplained about these methods and... (read more)

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Fiber Gathering: Knit, Crochet, Spin, and Dye More Than 20 Projects Inspired by America's Festivals
Fiber Gathering: Knit, Crochet, Spin, and Dye More Than 20 Projects Inspired by America's Festivals
by Joanne Seiff
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For fiber lovers, a festival is more than a setting for buying and selling materials—it's a gathering place where artisans, designers, farmers, and friends come together to teach, learn, share, and celebrate this timeless art in a unique 21st... (read more)

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Fabric Dyer's Dictionary: 900+ Colors, Specialty Techiniques, the Only Dyeing Book You'll Ever Need!
Fabric Dyer's Dictionary: 900+ Colors, Specialty Techiniques, the Only Dyeing Book You'll Ever Need!
by Linda Johansen
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Lays flat for easy use--the ultimate color reference guide. Now you have Linda's personal 'recipe book' to mix any colors you can imagine. Learn how to make rainbows, subtle gradations, and unique patterns using common brands of dye, and then use your... (read more)

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Fiberarts Design Book 7
Fiberarts Design Book 7
by Fiberarts
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For more than 20 years, The Fiberarts Design Book series has documented the evolution of contemporary textile art, earning praise from such publications as The New York Times in the process. These lushly illustrated volumes have provided precious source... (read more)

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Three-Dimensional Textiles with Coils, Loops, Knots and Nets
Three-Dimensional Textiles with Coils, Loops, Knots and Nets
by Ruth Lee
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This is an important book for textile artists looking for new ways of working. It offers three-dimensional designs using the techniques of interweaving, looping, twining, knotting, netting, and coiling, in a variety of materials, from yarn to leather to... (read more)

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