Growing with Gardening

Growing with Gardening
Author: Bibby Moore
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1469649225

Growing with Gardening offers step-by-step guidance in planning a year-round horticultural program for therapy, recreation, or education. Developed under the auspices of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, it features more than 250 activities, organized by month, ranging from designing a raised plant bed and building a wheelchair-accessible garden to constructing a plant press and creating crafts from natural plant materials. More than 200 illustrations complement the clear, concise text.

Old-Fashioned Ribbon Trimmings and Flowers

Old-Fashioned Ribbon Trimmings and Flowers
Author: Mary Brooks Picken
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2012-07-13
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486162583

Fold and sew ribbon strips into daisies, grape clusters, rosebuds, dahlias, violets, and much more. Over 30 projects. Illustrations and simple instructions.

Foolproof Crazy Quilting

Foolproof Crazy Quilting
Author: Jennifer Clouston
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2014-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607057182

“[The author] presents her fabulous crazy quilt composed of colorful fabrics cut in hexagons [and] describes how to take each stitch.” —Publishers Weekly Nothing shows off beautiful stitching and embellishments like the blank canvas of a crazy quilt. Jenny Clouston’s gorgeously illustrated primer shows you how to make your own heirloom crazy quilts. Learn: which fabrics, threads, and needles to use how to piece crazy quilt blocks how to embroider with thread, ribbons, beads, and other embellishments how to assemble your blocks into a finished quilt, and more Included are complete instructions for over 100 embroidery, beading, and embellishment stitches; links to full-size patterns for nine hexagonal crazy quilt blocks; and 25 stitch keys showing proper stitch placement and thread and needle selection for 25 different blocks.

Knots, Links, Braids and 3-Manifolds

Knots, Links, Braids and 3-Manifolds
Author: Viktor Vasilʹevich Prasolov
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1997
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821808982

This book is an introduction to the remarkable work of Vaughan Jones and Victor Vassiliev on knot and link invariants and its recent modifications and generalizations, including a mathematical treatment of Jones-Witten invariants. The mathematical prerequisites are minimal compared to other monographs in this area. Numerous figures and problems make this book suitable as a graduate level course text or for self-study.

Manufacture of Narrow Woven Fabrics - Ribbons, Trimmings, Edgings, Etc. - Giving Description of the Various Yarns Used, the Construction of Weaves and Novelties in Fabrics Structures, also Desriptive Matter as to Looms, Etc.

Manufacture of Narrow Woven Fabrics - Ribbons, Trimmings, Edgings, Etc. - Giving Description of the Various Yarns Used, the Construction of Weaves and Novelties in Fabrics Structures, also Desriptive Matter as to Looms, Etc.
Author: E. Posselt
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1473388082

Volume two of the “Hand Books of the Textile Industry” contains information on the manufacture of woven fabrics and related materials, describing in detail the different types of yarn and how to use a loom. Written in clear language and profusely illustrated, this volume will appeal to those with a piratical interest in traditional weaving. Contents include “A History of Textiles and Weaving”, “Manufacture of Narrow and Woven Fabrics”, “Various Yarns Used”, “Foundation Weaves”, “Derivative Weaves”, “Special Weaves and Effects”, “Looms for Narrow Woven Fabrics”, “Electric Power Increases Profits From High-Speed Ribbon Looms”, etc. .Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of textiles and weaving.