Item category 1: Arts & Crafts

No matter what your level of beading experience, you are sure to find the perfect beaded miniature project in this book. Step-by-step demonstrations, from basic construction to more advanced techniques. Over 100 tiny beaded projects each with an easy-to-follow pattern. After you have created your...

Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, and more, "100 Buildings and Architectural Forms" is a visual reference for student and aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers. Thi...

EMBROIDERY. Cross stitch fantastic greetings cards for friends and family with this huge collection of motifs and designs for every occasion. Whether it's a new baby, wedding anniversary or special birthday, there's certain to be a card to suit you. There are ideas for seasonal greeting cards for...

With the 100+ motif and border patterns in this book, it's easy to combine them to make your own cross stitch designs. The 21 unique cross stitch alphabets, made to coordinate with the motifs in a variety of styles, allow you to add words to complement your ideas.

This inspiring book chronicles the most influential ideas that have shaped industrial and product design. Written by two experts on modern design, it provides both a concise history of the subject, and offers a fascinating resource to dip into for the general reader. From the origins or modern de...

Draw Like An Artist: 100 Lessons to Create Anime and Manga Characters takes readers step by step through the basics of how to draw these popular entertainment genres plus a variety of character types in a wide range of poses, attitudes, expressions, and costumes.

Paper flowers are cropping up everywhere, taking centre stage in upmarket window displays and bringing pops of colour to winter weddings. They make a great impact, and offer an uplifting hit of colour at times when real flowers are scarce or too expensive. Best of all, they're easy and enjoyable ...

What comes to mind when you think of a triangle? Depending on its size, it could be a pyramid, a clown's hat, a slice of pie, a bird's beak. What if there are lots of triangles on a page? Depending on how they're placed, they might suggest a mountain range or a tent encampment, a pine tree farm, ...

100 ideas for turning your good photos into great ones. A practical accessible guide that includes inspirational examples of great photos and compares them with average images, with easy to follow tips and techniques, so you can achieve the same results. Covers portraits, events, landscapes, indo...

Starting with Marcel Duchamp's brilliantly cheeky L.H.O.O.Q., this volume takes you on a year-by-year tour of the most iconic and influential artowrks of the past century. The works are impeccably reproduced in stunning images, alongside analysis from noted art historian Ágnes Berecs. When read i...

Inspiring colour palettes to help mix and match. This handsome book is about choosing colour combinations not necessarily for a specific use. Each spread contains about seven photographs and a colour palette, like paint chips. The colour palettes provide inspiration and reliable combinations for...

For the experienced knitter/crocheter seeking infinite variety, here is a treasure trove of patterns and motifs. This dictionary includes 700 knitting and 300 crochet stitch patterns that are sure to inspire many new knitwear designs. Each pattern is charted with a delineation of the pattern repe...

The flowers in this book are all made with felt which is easy to find and exists in a wide variety of colors. The techniques used in the book are simple, and the creations look almost like real flowers. The models are all on a stem to help with customization.

PHOTOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT & TECHNIQUES. Karen Dorame presents hard-won tips and techniques that allow you to smooth out the bumps in the road toward a career in professional photography. She covers equipment selection and use, light source options and lighting setups using natural light and studio l...

Japanese knitwear designer Yoko Hatta shows you creative ways to use leftover yarn and your own sense of design to make hundreds of exciting crochet patterns. You'll find a range of motifs in this book - from elegantly simple to deliciously intricate - all waiting to be incorporated into your nex...

This book is the definitive colour-mixing resource for oil, acrylic, and watercolour artists. This user-friendly compendium is colour coded for quick-and-easy reference. You'll learn about colour theory, mixing values, complementary colours, greying colour naturally, mixing portrait colours, rend...

KNITTING. 200 Crochet Stitches is designed to get crochet fans discovering new stitches and creative ways of working crochet. It contains a wealth of stitch patterns and how to techniques. Stitches are introduced accompanied by clear photographic step-by-step instructions, charts, and examples of...

"Fashion is all about experimenting with styles, pushing the boundaries, and setting new trends. But despite changing seasons and tastes, the staple skills necessary for a fashion designer always stay the same. 200 Skills Every Fashion Designer Must Have offers a practical overview of the core co...

KNITTING. Perfect for new and experienced knitters alike, the 250 Knitting Stitches offers 250 stitches with detailed written and charted instructions. This essential collection presents stitch sections including: Basic stitches, bobbles, puffs and clusters, cables, tucks, chevrons, ripples and w...

This book shows you a huge range of color mixes in watercolour. Use it as a handy reference when you want to know how to mix a specific color, or as a catalogue of inspiration when seeking ideas to try in your work. The free color viewing card included can be used to view each swatch in isolation...

KNITTING & CROCHET. Using the latest colours and techniques, Emma Friedlander-Collins brings you a fun and functional collection of bags to crochet. There are bags for carrying around all your essentials, such as the Aztec Shoulder Bag made in tapestry crochet, and the Strawberry Handbag. Then th...

News of a new arrival brings about a flurry of activity. In reality there is very little a newborn needs other than warmth and love and what better way to show that you care than to hand-knit a beautiful baby blanket. From the first car journey to an outing in a stroller, a knitted blanket will a...

Packed full of information, this book will answer all your quilting questions, help solve your dilemmas, and provide all the tips and techniques you need to make any quilting project - plus the trade secrets that will make it stand out from the crowd. Techniques are explained with step-by-step ph...

The humble granny square gets a fresh new look in this collection of 100 3D granny square crochet patterns. Choose your favourite from 100 different designs including flowers, animals, food and drink, and motifs; whether it's a fragrant rose, a cherry pie or a jelly fish. Each motif features a 3D...

3D origami is a new and original technique that doesn't require any special skills - just a little patience. While traditional Japanese origami is a well-known technique, this clever adaptation uses individual triangular folds to construct impressive, modular designs. Maria Angela Carlessi shows ...

Are you looking for a sweet handmade token or sweet box to make for your Valentine as a way to share the love? Or do you want something special for Mother's Day, or an idea for your father on Father's Day? 3D Papercraft Projects is a craft book for the avid paper crafter, who wants to go beyond m...

This book offers a stunning visual history of 100 years of design. Designers have shaped our modern age, whether it's the chair we're sitting in, the computer we're reading on, or the house we're living in. Design is everywhere, and this volume profiles fifty of the most influential figures over ...

Starting with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and ending with Matthew Barney, nearly every prominent figure in Modern art is represented in vibrant double-page spreads that show how these artists redefined norms and challenged tradition. Fascinating biographical and anecdotal information about each...

PHOTOGRAPHY & PHOTOGRAPHS. From the world-famous Eastman House comes a lavish, expansive guide to nearly 200 years of photographic invention and innovation. Richly visual and wonderfully informative, it showcases 500 groundbreaking cameras from the museum's collection that forever changed our per...