Crafts and Creating Books
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The World According to Colour : A Cultural History
By: James FoxBinding: Paperback / softback'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings,...- £12.99
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The Secret Lives of Colour
By: Kassia St ClairBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A mind-expanding tour of the world without leaving your paintbox. Every colour has a story, and here are some of the most alluring, alarming, and thought-provoking. Very hard painting the hallway magnolia after this inspiring...- £14.99
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A Year Unfolding : A Printmaker's View
By: Angela HardingBinding: HardbackA cosy and delightful book - a real joy to behold.' Daily Mail'A gorgeous book to be treasured' BBC CountryfileA beautifully illustrated guide to nature through the seasons by much-loved printmaker Angela Harding. The cover of this stunning book has an...- £25.00
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Boy in a China Shop : Life, Clay and Everything
By: Keith Brymer JonesBinding: Paperback / softback'During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a great raconteur and recounts his story in this book as he does in real life - with joy, charm...- £10.99
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Worn : A People's History of Clothing
By: Sofi ThanhauserBinding: Paperback / softback'This riveting behind-the-scenes story of the clothes on our backs is a must-read for clotheshorses everywhere' Harper's Bazaar 'Extraordinary . . . fascinating . . . a wonderful way into history, quite often through the voices of people who...- £10.99
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Design as Art
By: Bruno MunariBinding: Paperback / softbackOne of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari's Design as Art is an illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design translated by Patrick Creagh published as part of the 'Penguin on Design' series...- £9.99
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Botanical Block Printing : A Creative Step-by-Step Handbook to Make Art Inspired by Nature
Discover the world of botanical block printing through an approachable guide that unveils a plethora of practical techniques and processes. This guide invites you to create stunning prints inspired by the natural world, all crafted by your own hands. Recent years have seen a...- £22.00
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Wild Clay : Creating Ceramics and Glazes from Natural and Found Resources
By: Matt Levy, Takuro Shibata, Hitomi ShibataBinding: HardbackThe ultimate illustrated guide for sourcing, processing and using wild clay. Potters around the world are taking to the local landscape to dig their own wild clay, discover its unique properties, and apply it to their craft....- £30.00
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On Photography
By: Susan SontagBinding: Paperback / softbackSusan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of...- £9.99
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The Beauty of Everyday Things
By: Soetsu Yanagi, Michael BraseBinding: Paperback / softbackRadical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial - Edmund de WaalThe daily lives of ordinary people are replete with objects, common things used in commonplace settings....- £9.99
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Graphic Design Play Book : An Exploration of Visual Thinking
By: Sophie Cure, Aurelien FarinaBinding: Paperback / softback- £16.99
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From Japan
By: Jon DowlingBinding: Paperback / softbackFrom Japan is a collection of work from some of the most talented agencies in Japan, such as Nendo, MR Design, Grand Deluxe, Daikoku Design Institute, The Simple Society and many more.- £12.50
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From Scandinavia
By: Jon DowlingBinding: Paperback / softbackFrom Scandinavia is a collection of work from some of the most talented agencies in Scandinavia, such as Snask, Stockholm Design Lab, Bielke & Yang, Bond, Heydays and many more.- £12.50
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Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters
By: R HaleBinding: Paperback / softbackA book whose sales have not diminished but rather increased dramatically since its publication 45 years ago, this bestselling classic is the ultimate manual of drawing taught by the late Robert Beverly Hale, who's famed lectures and classes at...- £22.99
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Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear : From Seed to Style the Sustainable Way
By: Bella GonshorovitzBinding: Paperback / softbackLive sustainably with style - grow fruits and vegetables, cook them, create natural dyes, then make your own clothes with five full-size pattern sheets. Focused around five crops (blackberry, nettle, onion, red cabbage, and rhubarb) that can be foraged...- £20.00
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A Year of Watercolour : A Seasonal Guide to Botanical Watercolour Painting
By: Harriet de WintonBinding: Paperback / softbackCreate beautiful botanical artworks, engage with the natural world around you, and take pleasure in the changing seasons with A Year of Watercolour. Award-winning and bestselling artist and tutor Harriet de Winton takes you through more than 30...- £18.99
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Nature Imprinted : A Complete Guide to Lino Printing, with 10 Nature-Inspired Designs
Capture the beautiful natural world with printmaking linocut blocks from Inky Dog Studio's Jane Spink. Learn to make your own linocut blocks of the world all around you. Jane Spink, founder of dynamic and successful Inky Dog Studio, shares her working process for creating...- £19.99
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All Art Is Ecological
By: Timothy MortonBinding: Paperback / softbackIn twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are...- £6.99
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain : A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence: definitive 4th edition
By: Betty EdwardsBinding: HardbackOVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE'You will quickly amaze and delight yourself. Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing I've done in lockdown' India Knight, Sunday TimesDrawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used...- £20.00
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook : The companion workbook to the world's bestselling drawing guide
By: Betty EdwardsBinding: Paperback / softback'You will quickly amaze and delight yourself. Hands down the best and most life-enhancing thing I've done in lockdown' India Knight, Sunday Times, about Drawing on the Right Side of the BrainDrawing on the Right Side of the Brain...- £18.99
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Unquiet Landscape : Places and Ideas in 20th-Century British Painting
Christopher Neve�_Ts classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states of mind? �_~Painting�_T, says Neve, �_~is a process of finding out, and...- £10.99
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The White Road : A Journey Into Obsession
The gripping story of the lure of porcelain, or 'white gold', from the Number One bestselling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes. ** A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller ** "Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"...- £12.99
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Humanise : A Maker's Guide to Building Our World
From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings. 'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON PERRY*****Our...- £15.99
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By My Hands : A Potter's Apprenticeship
Every page made me wish I was a potter' Nigel SlaterFlorian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection - and as his skill has grown, so has his social media following, which today numbers in the...- £30.00
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Wild Light : A printmaker's day and night
By: Angela HardingBinding: HardbackWith over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn. "I, like many other people, find great inspiration in the way mornings,...- £25.00
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Linocut : A Creative Guide to Making Beautiful Prints
Format: Paperback / softback 176 pages, 450 step-by-step colour illustrationsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Herbert Press LtdISBN: 9781789940701Published: 19 Jan 2023Classifications: Drawing & drawings, Prints & printmaking, Painting & art manualsWeight: 738g A step-by-step guide on how to create personal and contemporary linocut prints. A...- £20.00
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Craft Britain : Why Making Matters
By: David Linley, Helen ChislettBinding: HardbackCraft is at the very heart of British identity, from stained-glass windows in country churches to the Enid Blyton charm of thatched houses; from Harris Tweed (R) (famously poached by Coco Chanel) to the ceremonial livery worn by horses...- £40.00
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Linocut : Learn in a Weekend
By your own hand, prints to be proud of in no time at all. Nick Morley is a seasoned expert at guiding aspiring printmakers through their first projects, and this accessible book distils his knowledge into friendly step-by-step projects, each chosen to demonstrate a...- £12.99
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On The Roof : A Thatcher's Journey
The reed goes on, the reed comes off. The reed rots and returns to the earth. The houses we work on outlast us. The thatch we use has never stood still. On The Roof is a thatcher's tale - a journey of discovery, and...- £18.99
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Tiny Tattoos : Over 1,000 Small Inspirational Artworks
By: Rebecca VincentBinding: Hardback'Rebecca Vincent is a genius. I'll be tattooed by no one else.' - Sali HughesTiny tattoos are big news. With celebrities showcasing them on social media (step forward Kendall Jenner, Hailey Baldwin and Bella Hadid), micro tattoos are a major trend....- £15.99
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