Decorative Arts & Crafts Books

A comprehensive guide for all calligraphers, whether amateurs or professionals, this book contains over 100 different alphabets with detailed instructions on how to draw all the letters. It contains information about tools and materials, basic layouts and illumination and ornamentation.

A beginner's guide to learning calligraphy.

Drawing on the timeless appeal of Celtic art and design, which has attracted artists and craft workers for centuries, this book shows how Celtic themes can be applied to a range of contemporary crafts. It covers the intricacies of Celtic design, learning how to construct and decorate a selection of knotwork, spiral, key and zoomorphic patterns.

Shows art of stitching on metal. This work ranges from jewellery to decorated boxes and panels, and represents a fusion of traditional and contemporary methods and design. It provides not only information on materials and methods, but also twelve step-by-step projects and numerous photographs of the author's own pieces.

A complete guide to the tools, materials and techniques for creating decorative finishes for jewellery. It outlines all the materials and equipment needed to carry out different techniques, together with detailed demonstrations and sample swatches. It is richly illustrated with work by professional jewellers, explaining how they have used different applications in their work.

A guide to the art of calligraphy, from selecting pens and papers, mastering different alphabets and letter construction through to designing and laying out your own work and presenting it in a bound book.

Faberge, Tiffany, Lalique - these great designers came together only once to display their goods in what was probably the opulent exhibition ever mounted. This title discusses the works in the context of their times, illuminate the high societies served by the three masters, and trace the cultural trends behind their extraordinary creations.

The collection of British silver at the Ashmolean Museum has all, with one notable exception (a tankard of 1574 given in 1790), been acquired since shortly after World War II. In relation to other major museum collections, therefore, it is young. This work catalogues this collection.

Aims to help skilled blacksmiths who have little or no teaching experience to train others in forge work techniques. Divided into two parts, the first outlines an approach to teaching; the second contains a selection of illustrated lesson plans.

From raw steel to tempered blade, this text presents a visual account of the ancient craft of swordmaking as practiced in modern Japan.

The new Carpentry and Joinery Series by Peter Brett provides complete and up-to-date coverage for Levels 2 and 3. Brett's original titles, Carpentry and Joinery for Building Craft Students Books 1 and 2, have been completely revised and redesigned to provide these two brand new books.

Full title: 'How to Make and Decorate 30 Fabulous Picture Frames'.

A study of American Indian adornment which Dubin has spent the last decade researching, photographing artefacts and conducting interviews with elders and artists, excerpts of which are printed here. The text includes regional maps, diagrams of jewellery techniques and three gatefolds.

Introduces the reader to the fascinating world of medieval miniature painting and illumination. 167 of the medieval scripts from the 4th century to 1600 are presented in chronological order. Each sample of script is headed by an informative synopses which serves to orient the reader.

In Japan, the wrapping of a package is truly an art. This book studies the craft of Japanese packaging. It features the traditional Japanese packaging materials in more than two hundred black-and-white photographs.

The firm of Tiffany & Company has long been regarded as America's premier maker and retailer of fine luxury goods. This is especially true in the case of jewelry, an area in which the company emerged as an arbiter of taste and style by the mid-19th century. This book recounts its history.

The new Carpentry and Joinery Series by Peter Brett provides complete and up-to-date coverage for Levels 2 and 3. Brett's original titles, Carpentry and Joinery for Building Craft Students Books 1 and 2, have been completely revised and redesigned to provide these two brand new books.

Adrian Quan is one of the most unique and discerning furniture designers working today. 'Tables, Boxes, Screens, Cabinets' is the first book to explore Quan's stylish and graceful body of work in detail, providing a beautifully illustrated insight into the intriguingly playful and thoughtful creative process that informs his compositions.