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Presents designs and instructions for making afghans, pillows, cushions, place mats, and other items, using such crafts techniques as crocheting, knitting, canvas embroidery, and latchhooking.

Bestselling author Kumiko Sudo creates 45 exquisite handmade gifts in fabric, each with a flair that is uniquely Japanese. Easy-to-follow patterns, beautiful photographs, and colorful step-by-step drawings help the projects come together quickly--many in less than an hour. Whether they are created in kimono silks or in contemporary cottons, these tiny boxes, purses, decorative toys, incense pouches, and good luck charms all make delightful gifts--Publisher....

Explains the tools and materials required in the craft of rubbing and then demonstrates the basic methods for making dry and wet rubbings.

History of textile production - Materials - Dyes - Yarn - Techniques of decoration - The West (Applique, beadwork, block-printing, brocade weaving) - The North - The East and South (Silk industry).

Awadh has historically been among the most important regions in India, politically, religiously and socially, and holds a vital position with respect to the development of Indian fashion. As such, fashion and history are not mutually distinct, but rather intricately intertwined. This book takes a fascinating journey, connecting dates and events to the evolution of costumes, textiles, colours, motifs and ornamentations from the 18th century up to present-day...

Publisher's description: Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth -- and of history -- in early America. Under the singular and brilliant lens that Ulrich brings to this study, ordinary household goods -- Indian baskets, spinning wheels, a chimneypiece, a cupboard, a niddy-noddy, bed coverings,...