The Book of Wheat Weaving and Straw Craft

The Book of Wheat Weaving and Straw Craft
Author: Morgyn Geoffry Owens-Celli
Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1998-12
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781579900786

Make amazing natural projects ranging from simple but lovely plaits to creations fit for museums. The 20 different weaving techniques will prepare you to make house blessings including fans and harps; love knots, used to preserve and promote love; ancient and traditional designs such as Celtic knots, Earth Mother, Glory Braid, and much more.

Wheat Weaving and Straw Art

Wheat Weaving and Straw Art
Author: Linda D. Beiler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780811704922

Wheat weaving is an ancient folk art made to celebrate a successful harvest. Today straw designs are admired for their beauty and intricacy. This title provides advice on the tools and materials needed to get started; tips on preparing the straw; and step-by-step projects for mastering the techniques of plaiting.

The Complete Book of Straw Craft and Corn Dollies

The Complete Book of Straw Craft and Corn Dollies
Author: Doris Johnson
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486252490

Complete illustrated introduction to the age-old craft of plaiting harvest, or good luck figures from straw. 150 illustrations.

Make Your Own Walking Sticks

Make Your Own Walking Sticks
Author: Charles Self
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2007-07-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1607658984

Take your woodworking for a walk! Woodworkers, carvers, and turners of all skill levels will discover 15 fun walking stick projects that range from a basic pine staff to a sophisticated brass-adorned turned cane. Complete with step-by-step instructions, detailed patterns, and in-depth coverage of shaping, turning, and finishing techniques, this book also includes a valuable guide to woods and an impressive gallery of works from the private collection of Albert LeCoff, executive director of the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia.

Swiss Straw Work

Swiss Straw Work
Author: Veronica Main
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2003
Genre: Straw work
ISBN: 9780954179502

Spell Crafts

Spell Crafts
Author: Scott Cunningham
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2002-09
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780875421858

Spell Crafts Take a look at your hands. See them as wondrous vehicles of power. Feel the energy that flows through everything you do. Tap into that power! Carve a symbol, dip a candle, mix fragrant herbs, sculpt clay, and make your life all that you want it to be. When crafts are used to create objects intended for ritual or to symbolize the divine, the connection between the craftsperson and divinity grows more intense. This second edition of "Spell Crafts, the much-loved and oft-read guide to magical handwork, features new illustrations and a new preface by David Harrington. Learn how to create and use all of the following: - magical simmering potpourris - a beaded psychic mandala - clay pentacles, plaques, and runic dice - a shaman''''s arrow - sand paintings - Corn Mother - a magical spell broom - protective hex sign - Witch bottles - flower garlands - spell banner - magic mirror - prosperity trivet - wheat weaving

Seeing Like a State

Seeing Like a State
Author: James C. Scott
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2020-03-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0300252986

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University

Decorative Straw Craft

Decorative Straw Craft
Author: Barbara Fitch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Embroidery
ISBN: 9780855328245

Explores the techniques of straw marquetry & embroidery, and reviews the lost craft of Swiss straw work - the use of straw to make decorative trimmings and braids. Detailed step-by-step photographs illustrate all the techniques.

The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China

The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China
Author: Chunming Wu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2021-10-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811640793

This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the “barbarian” Bai Yue and Island Yi (岛夷) and their cultural interaction with the northern Huaxia (华夏) in early Chinese civilization within the geopolitical order of the “Central State-Four Peripheries Barbarians-Four Seas”. Archaeological typologies of the prehistoric remains reveal a unique cultural tradition dominantly originating from the local Paleolithic age and continuing to early Neolithization across this border region. Further analysis of material culture from the Neolithic to the Early Iron Age proves the stability and resilience of the indigenous cultures even with the migratory expansion of Huaxia and Han (汉) from north to south. Ethnographical investigations of aboriginal heritage highlight their native cultural context, seafaring technology and navigation techniques, and their interaction with Austronesian and other foreign maritime ethnicities. In a word, this manuscript presents a new perspective on the unique cultural landscape of indigenous ethnicities in southeast China with thousands of years’ stable tradition, a remarkable maritime orientation and overseas cultural hybridization in the coastal region of southeast China.

The Book of Indian Crafts & Indian Lore

The Book of Indian Crafts & Indian Lore
Author: Julian Harris Salomon
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1928
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Tells how various articles connected with Indian life were made and used. Some subjects included are Indian music, games, dances, and food. Grades 6-8.