Clear Cast: The Teaching & Hobby Approach to Plastic Resin
Fort Worth, Texas: American Handicrafts, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 11" x 8.5" Oblong soft cover. [32] pp. B&W illustrations. Chafing to covers and edges, some creasing to joints. More
Handicrafts
Misericords: Medieval Life in English Woodcarving
Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1954. Hardcover. 18mo. King Penguin #72. Printed paper boards. 30 pp., [2], [48] pp B&W plates. Rubbing to top and tail edges. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust jacket has a large chip to foot of front cover, smaller chip to head of front joint, light rubbing and toning..... More
The Art of Blacksmithing
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Third Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Third edition, revised and updated by Charles McRaven. 487 p.p. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling to spine and blind stamped publisher's device to front board. Minor bumping to spine ends, else fine Dust jacket is sunned at spine with..... More
More Dress Pattern Designing
London: Crosby Lockwood, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Orig. brown cloth. 176 pp. With 172 drawings. With Metric Supplement to Dress Pattern Designing & More Dress Pattern Designing in envelope pocket to front pastedown. Dust jacket is age toned, chafed to edges, a few short tears. More
The Stickmaker
[Great Britain]: The British Stickmaker's Guild. Hardcover. 6" x 9" 1991-1994. No. 26-39 plus Theo Fossel Memorial Issue. Issue 32 lacking. Green cloth binder with metal rod binding, collecting 14 saddle-stiched magazines. 48 pp. each. B&W illustrations in-text, varies based on issue. July 1991 issue duplicated. Flyer for Elvaston Jamboree..... More
Marbling Paper
Hitchin, Hertfordshire: G.W. Russell and Son Limited Educational Handicrafts. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. 16mo. N.d., [ca. 19--?] Bookbinding as a School Subject, Pamphlet No. 5. Orig. tan card wrappers, staple bound. 16 pp. B&W illustrations. Two samples of marbled paper tipped in. Sticker ghost to foot of front cover. Booklet..... More
Build a Home
New York: The Dial Press, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orig. red cloth, xiii, 234pp. Illustrated with line drawings. Some markings on cloth, spine bumped at head and foot o/w very good in a soiled and chipped d/w with loss to jacket spine but still good. "Build A Home tells..... More
Corticelli Home Needlework, Vol. II, No. 3: Third Quarter 1900
St. Johns, P.Q. Corticelli Silk Company, Limited, 1900. Soft cover. 5.5" x 8" Orig. card wrappers. 167-257 pp. Illustrated. Some general soiling and wear to wraps. A quarterly magazine devoted to instruction in art needlework and crochet. More
A Fine Line: Studio Crafts in Ontario from 1930 to the Present
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full green paper boards. xxviii, 220 pp. Fully illustrated in colour and B&W. Fine. More
Encyclopedia of Needlework
Mulhouse, France: Editions Th. de Dillmont, 1971. Hardcover. 18mo. DMC Library. Orig. green cloth. 787, [27 pp. table of contents + ads]. Light wear to head of front joint, damp stain to spine. Dust jacket is damp stained to spine, creasing and wear to rear cover, 1" tear to head..... More
Crane Business Paper Sample Book
Dalton, MA: Crane Business Papers, 1990. Alcorn, Stephen. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 5" x 6.5" Custom bound by Mueller Trade Bindery. Bound in 100% cream cotton fabric and Linter paper. Unpaged and unopened. Some light soiling to covers, else fine. More
Fabric Painting and Dyeing for the Theatre
New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full blue cloth. xiv, 176 pp. Fully illustrated. Spine tilted. Ink gift inscription to ffep. Dust jacket is edge worn and rubbed. More
The Gnomes Book of Christmas Crafts
New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1980. Hardcover. 4to. Pictorial paper boards. Illustrated cream cloth dust wrapper. Christmas sheet music for "The Forest Gnome Song" to endpapers, lyrics by Carol Sterbenz and music by Alison Hubbard. Over 75 illustrations in full colour and nearly 100 patterns and diagrams. 160 p.p...... More
Home Manufacture of Furs and Skins: A Book of Practical Instructions Telling How to Tan, Dress, Color and Manufacture or Make into Articles of Ornament, Wear and Use
Columbus, OH: A.R. Harding, 1916. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 18mo. Orig. brown cloth. 285 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, some staining to cloth, light chafing to extremities. Soiling to edges of text block. A few spots of soiling to interior. Very good overall. More
Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East: Fashioning the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean
London: I.B. Taurus, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full black paper boards. xi, 380 pp. Minor sunning to edges of dust jacket. Fine overall. Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East presents research on craft workers within and outside the guild structure from the..... More
Embroideries and Fabrics for Synagogue and Home: 5000 Years of Ornamental Needlework
New York: Hearthside Press Inc., 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. 224 p.p. B&W illustrations and photos throughout. Quarter bound in gold cloth with blue cloth boards, black lettering to spine. Bumping to spine ends. Foxing to top edge. Dust jacket has several chips and creases, a few short tears, wear to joints..... More
Making and Playing Bamboo Pipes
Leicester: The Dryad Press, 1971. Soft cover. 12mo. Fifth printing. Soft cover. 43 pp. Some edge wear and rubbing to covers, light staining to rear. Light foxing to interior. More
Nothing but the Best: The Tradition of English Craftsmen from Edwardian to Elizabethan
New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter navy cloth, cream paper boards. x, 277 pp. [6] B&W plates. Sunning to spine. Light foxing to endpapers. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn with some light chipping, soiling to rear cover. More
The Story of the American Walnut
Chicago: American Walnut Manufacturers Association, 1936. Soft cover. 12mo. Eighth Edition. Orig. orange wrappers, a walnut tree illustrated on upper cover, 36pp. Illustrated. "Compliments of the Galloway Furn. Ltd., Kitchener, Ont.' stamped on title. Fading to wrappers with some wear and creasing, o/w very good. History of wood technology and..... More
English Dolls' Houses of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
London: B.T. Batsford, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (imperial). Orig. red cloth. T.E.R. 224 pp. B&W illustrations in text. Spine and edges sunned, white scuffs to front board. Spine cocked. O/w fine. More
Basket Work of All Kinds
London: Cassell and Company, 1912. Hardcover. 4" x 7" Orig. red cloth, paper label to front board. 160 pp. B&W engravings and diagrams. Spine sunned, rubbing to extremities, damp staining to corners and rear board, rubbing to paper label. Damp staining to endpapers, lower corners, and top edge of text..... More
Making it in Leather
New York: Drake Publishers, Inc., 1972. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 104 p.p. Dust jacket a little rubbed, sunned on the spine, small chips to spine head. Red buckram, title in gilt on spine. Bumping and wear to spine ends. Top edge lightly foxed. Lots of B&W illustrations and photos throughout..... More
Glass Paperweights: An Old Craft Revived
Coupar Angus, Scotland: William Culross & Son Limited, 1975. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth boards, unlettered. vii, 33 p.p. Colour photographs. Light sunning to spine and edges. Dust jacket bumped at extremities, soiled at rear, one short tear to foot of front cover. This book is a brief resume of the..... More
Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1920. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Quarter tan cloth, green paper boards. xxx, 362 pp. Illustrated by the author from old examples, together with 35 pages of half-tone illustrations. Spine shaken and tilted, rubbed to extremities, wear to corners, scuffing to..... More
The Hand Decoration of Fabrics
Bloomington, IL: McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. blue cloth. 193 pp., [4 pp. index]. B&W illustrations in text. Spine tilted, minor rubbing to edges, else fine. More