Craft

This collection celebrates craft in all its forms, from ceramics, porcelain and textile art to book arts, printing and the Arts and Crafts movement, along with artists who work in craft materials and practical guides to sewing, quilting and making.

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  • Paper Crafts: A Maker's GuidePaper Crafts: A Maker's Guide
    Thames & Hudson

    Paper Crafts: A Maker's Guide

    Paper crafts are as old as paper itself, with a profusion of different techniques and traditions originating around the world. Paper is affordable, ephemeral and easily manipulated, and has long inspired makers from humble folk crafters to fine artists and fashion designers. The book...
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  • BOOKS: Art, Craft & Community (London Centre for Book Arts)BOOKS: Art, Craft & Community (London Centre for Book Arts)
    Ludion

    BOOKS: Art, Craft & Community (London Centre for Book Arts)

    Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something rooted in its functionality, a process that often crosses over into the messier realm of art. Books. Art, Craft...
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  • Broken: Mending and repair in a throwaway worldBroken: Mending and repair in a throwaway world
    Ludion

    Broken: Mending and repair in a throwaway world

    We live in a single-use society, where fashion is fast, disposability is the norm and it is easier to replace than to repair. We don’t need to mend things anymore – and yet we do. What is it about Homo faber – man the maker –...
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  • Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making ThingsCraft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things
    D Giles

    Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things

    Drawn from the Mint Museum of Art’s renowned permanent collection of craft and design in all media―ceramic, pottery, wood, metal, glass, fibre, textiles and design―Craft in the Laboratory highlights how contemporary makers use STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) processes and principles when creating...
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  • The Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and TechniquesThe Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques
    Chronicle Books

    The Ceramics Bible: The Complete Guide to Materials and Techniques

    Brimming with more than 700 full-colour photos and illustrations, this is the definitive guide for serious ceramics practitioners. Inside are step-by-step instructions on moulding, firing, and glazing techniques, generously accompanied by detailed photographs. The book includes beautiful examples of contemporary work, plus plenty of...
    £18.00
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  • Really Cross Stitch: For when you just want to stab something a lot Really Cross Stitch: For when you just want to stab something a lot 
    Herbert Press

    Really Cross Stitch: For when you just want to stab something a lot 

    Annoyed? Upset? Distraught? Want to stab a sharp object into something? Then this book is for you. Inspired by the banners and signs at marches around the world, Really Cross Stitch takes all that anger, outrage and protest and puts it inside a pretty, decorative border....
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    £7.00
  • The Complete Guide to Designing & Printing FabricThe Complete Guide to Designing & Printing Fabric
    A & C Black

    The Complete Guide to Designing & Printing Fabric

    The Complete Guide to Designing and Printing Fabric is a comprehensive handbook covering everything there is to know about designing and printing fabric. The book is full of advice from established fabric designers with clear, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials. The reader is taken...
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  • Anni and Josef Albers: Art and Life (Rare edition)Anni and Josef Albers: Art and Life (Rare edition)
    Prestel

    Anni and Josef Albers: Art and Life (Rare edition)

    Rare & Collectible This career-spanning exhibition catalog reveals the enormous artistic achievements - both individual and shared - of two of the greatest pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Featuring more than two hundred and fifty works, including paintings, photographs, drawings, textiles and furniture, this essential...
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    £38.00
  • Fashion Sewing: Introductory TechniquesFashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques
    Fairchild Books

    Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques

    Featuring easy-to-follow instructions on all the main basic and intermediate skills required to sew garments from a pattern, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques is an excellent resource for fashion design students who want to improve their sewing skills.The book includes advice on setting up the home sewing...
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    £13.50
  • AfterGlow: New Nordic PorcelainAfterGlow: New Nordic Porcelain
    Arnoldsche Art Publishers

    AfterGlow: New Nordic Porcelain

    After Glow documents the New Nordic Porcelain Forum, a project which focuses on the Nordic tradition of porcelain production. The focal point is the collaborative work of 13 ceramic artists from the Scandinavian regions, who gathered for a residency in Denmark in 2019 and in 2021...
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  • Madame Tricot: DelicatessenMadame Tricot: Delicatessen
    Arnoldsche Art Publishers

    Madame Tricot: Delicatessen

    With her unique artistic installations, Madame Tricot (real name Dominique Kaehler Schweizer) displaces the viewer into an illusory world of knitted delicacies. Her smokehouses, refrigerators, counters of sausage and cheese, and platters of vegetables and desserts are full of wit and irony. The knitted...
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  • Bente SaetrangBente Saetrang
    Arnoldsche Art Publishers

    Bente Saetrang

    This monograph presents the Norwegian artist Bente Sætrang (b. 1946) and her forty years of commitment to the medium of textile. Sætrang is known for her intensive investigation of trompe l'oeil drapery, bold textile printing, monumental abstract colour studies, and juicy charcoal drawings. She...
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  • Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists (Rare edition)Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists (Rare edition)
    Damiani

    Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists (Rare edition)

    Rare & Collectible Fifteen internationally renowned artists explore a medium foreign to their usual practice, experimenting within the lost world of wall-hanging tapestry. Three years in the making, the fourteen tapestries in Demons, Yarns and Tales address a range of subjects from fictive landscapes...
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  • Unearthed: Twentieth-Century Ceramic Art from PortugalUnearthed: Twentieth-Century Ceramic Art from Portugal
    Arnoldsche Art Publishers

    Unearthed: Twentieth-Century Ceramic Art from Portugal

    In a country known for its lively azulejos (tiles) and clay crafts, local studio pottery in Portugal has remained practically unknown, yet throughout the last century, a considerable number of potters and visual artists ― from Portugal as well as Germany, Hungary, and Mozambique,...
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    £72.00
    £40.00
  • Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book ArtsGraphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts
    Pennsylvania State University Press

    Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Book Arts

    The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colourist, a remarkable draftsman, and a creative genius, this is the Matisse known and admired by everyone with even a passing interest in modern art....
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  • Shibori Knits: The Art of Exquisite Felted KnitsShibori Knits: The Art of Exquisite Felted Knits
    Potter Craft

    Shibori Knits: The Art of Exquisite Felted Knits

    Shibori Knits highlights the intersection between shibori and knitting, offering 20 patterns that utilise this transformative technique. Internationally acclaimed knitwear designer Gina Wilde guides knitters through three dynamic ways to add shibori to knitting. The first method uses physical resists (marbles or corks) that...
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    £12.00
  • Contemporary Studio Porcelain (Second edition)Contemporary Studio Porcelain (Second edition)
    University of Pennsylvania Press

    Contemporary Studio Porcelain (Second edition)

    In Contemporary Studio Porcelain, Peter Lane provides a strong history and celebration of the development of porcelain at the turn of the new millennium. He gives particular consideration to the technical achievements, working practices, and aesthetic concerns of ceramicists who work with this most...
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  • Typography in Wood: Wood Typography from the 19th CenturyTypography in Wood: Wood Typography from the 19th Century
    Gingko Press

    Typography in Wood: Wood Typography from the 19th Century

    This book is a beautiful republication of the 1860s wood type catalogue Specimen des caractères en bois de la maison Bonnet. It demonstrates that letters, like buildings, incarnate the spirit of an age, while preserving a timeless quality that constitutes a lasting source of inspiration. The first wooden...
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    £32.99
    £22.00
  • William Morris: Artist Craftsman PioneerWilliam Morris: Artist Craftsman Pioneer
    Flame Tree

    William Morris: Artist Craftsman Pioneer

    This beautifully illustrated book offers a survey of William Morris' life and work alongside some of his finest decorative work. Morris possessed a multi-faceted genius that allowed him not only to master every craft to which he turned his hand, but also to write critically...
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  • Exploring Dimension in Quilt ArtExploring Dimension in Quilt Art
    Batsford

    Exploring Dimension in Quilt Art

    Quilt art doesn't have to be flat. These days, the most innovative quilt artists are creating intricate raised structures, using various folding, gathering, pleating, stuffing, padding, shrinking and layering techniques. This fascinating book is a guide to creating these stunning effects, from the simplest...
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