Item category 1: Arts and Crafts

This is an illustrated and easy-to-use guide to the basic stitches and techniques of crocheting granny squares in delightful and inspiring colourways. With 100 original designs to choose from, and beautiful edgings to complete your work, there is plenty here to spark your creativity. Each design ...

General readers, art students and practitioners alike will pick up this book again and again, to check facts, browse among the pictures, and explore how great artists like Breughel, Goya, Constable and Picasso first captured our admiration and why they remain influential to this day.

This volume covers a wide variety of Christmas crafts from knitting, crochet, papercraft, sewing, sugarcraft, felt decorations, jewellery making, cross stitch, mosaic making, découpage, polymer clay decorations and needlepoint. Each craft included has a helpful tools and materials section, most ...

The fashion industry has always celebrated innovative design, and young, talented fashion designers can make a huge impact as they explore new ideas and push boundaries. This book showcases the diverse and unique work of the best 100 new creatives in fashion design from around the world.

This is no ordinary how-to photography manual. It is a fascinating and informative insight into the imaginative mind of an exceptional photographer at the moment he captures each picture.

Over the past century tattoo culture has emerged from the underground and hit the mainstream. From body arts early association with sailors, convicts and side-show acts to the current adoption of tattoo culture amongst celebrities, via the tattoo renaissance of the 1970s, this book reveals the en...

The year by year format of this series allows the progression of fashion of each decade to be shown in detail, from day wear and evening wear to underwear and negligees. Each development in fashion design is charted in this collection.

The year-by-year format of this series allows the progression of each decade's fashion to be shown in detail, from day wear and evening wear to underwear and negligees.

The year by year format of this series allows the progression of fashion in each decade to be shown in detail, from day wear and evening wear to underwear and negligees. Each development in fashion design is charted in this collection.

The year-by-year format of this series allows the progression of each decade's fashion to be shown in detail, from day wear and evening wear to underwear and negligees.