Written by best-selling author Peter Brett, this new full-colour edition has been fully updated to cover the revised carpentry and joinery qualifications.

Features varied illustrations that include details of furniture carving, ornamentation and upholstery, views of different styles of furniture used in historic and contemporary interiors, original drawings, and star pieces, both antique and contemporary.

Suitable for those interested in tattoo art and culture, this work features thirty international artists who use a variety of mediums, from ink, watercolour, acrylic paint and oil to lino printing, painting on wood and board, and examples of tattoo-style street art and skateboard graphics.

Accompanying the Smithsonian Institutions major exhibition, this book features more than sixty objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions and trade delegations from Ottoman Turkey and Safavid Iran offered to the Tsars of Russia. It explores the reasons why these extraordinary gifts were presented, their artistic and cultural impact.

Celebrates contemporary British craft. This guide highlights over 130 top quality craft galleries throughout the UK, exhibiting applied arts that range through jewelery, work in ceramics, textiles, glass and wood, sculpture, and mixed-media artworks.

A compendium of Indian crafts. It maps the crafts of the country, and captures the traditions that have enriched the day-to-day lives of Indian people while being a source of livelihood for generations of craftspeople. It probes various aspects of handicrafts - historical, social, and cultural influences on crafts, and design and craft processes.

Over 600 years ago, the Akan started to make brass weights for weighing gold dust, the currency of their region in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. Eventually they produced the most complete three dimensional inventory of any culture in history. This title presents a selection of more than 500 of these artefacts chosen for their artistry and interest.

Focuses on south and east European fine bindings, with sections on Oriental and American bindings. This title describes and illustrates the decorative features of different kinds of bindings, and also the details of its structure.

Quilting is a craft, rich with tradition and homespun, practical applications. But it's also an art - which, with needle and thread, fabric, and an idea, can give us a new way of looking at the world and wrapping ourselves in it. This book profiles twenty practitioners of quilting art.

500 Years of Great Italian Decorative Art and Design Side by Side.

Offers information on basic patternmaking, laying foundations for those who are taking their first steps in tailoring and dressmaking. This title uses four fundamental garments - skirt, dress, jacket and coat - to explain patterns step by step, with sequences of photographs and descriptions.

A comprehensive survey of crafts worldwide. It explains and illustrates the techniques used in a particular craft, from backstrap weaving and papercutting to metal casting and wood carving, as well as their history. Featuring over 500 illustrations, it is suitable for those concerned with art, craft and decorative objects.

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

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.

Looks at the studios, apartments, and homes of the designers, directors, stylists, artists, novelists and innovators that are pushing the boundaries of contemporary culture. Going through the interiors city by city, this title also features those from Barcelona architect Juan Redon, and Paris artist Artus de la Villeon.

A look at some examples of masterpieces of Japanese lacquer from the Khalili collection.

Venetian masks are a centuries-old tradition of Venice, Italy. Worn during the Carnevale (the Carnival of Venice, elsewhere known as Mardi Gras), the masks have been used on many other occasions as a device for hiding the wearer's identity and social status. This title examines the history and beauty of these masks.

The Hart's workshop in Chipping Campden - the sole survivor of C R Ashbee's Arts and Crafts Guild of Handicraft - evokes visions of its century-old origins. The eyes of the third and fourth generations of the Hart family, who practise their craft here, are very firmly set on the future. This book is a celebration of that hundred years experience.