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Decorative painting can be worked without rigid color guides to follow, and painted finishes can be an almost free form craft. This book will guide you through this craft. Projects range from large to small, simple to complex.

Full instructions for more than 35 projects, from easy to intermediate, include time-saving sewing and serging tips. Clever ideas like sewing a loop at the neckline to hold your glasses, or embroidering your phone number on the sleeve for a sister who always forgets to call will keep you chuckling.

With the easy to learn techniques and complete patterns and instructions Ann Benson has provided, you'll use seed beads, bugle beads, pearls, crystals, semiprecious stones and more to make your own exciting works of wearable art.

Basic techniques of the age-old craft of rugmaking are described, and new patterns and suggested materials are included.

Includes index

Rediscovering natural ways of making tools, shoes, furniture, and a variety of other items using methods that follow the grain of wood or the idiosyncrasies of a piece of stone. Seymour respects what he calls "the discipline of natural materials," and he longs for a world free of "mass produced rubbish." Chapters cover an astonishing range: from clog making to spinning to canning.