Celebrating the glories of flowers in the home, this book moves beyond flower arranging to present gloriously original suggestions for fabulous flower effects and floral objects.
Presents more than twenty Victorian-style projects that can be made with ribbons, explaining the types of ribbons and their characteristics, as well as embroidery stitching
The age-old craft of stringwork is updated and transformed with inspirational designs and exciting projects for you to try at home. Create beautiful and functional objects as diverse as a String-Wrapped Picture Frame and a Coiled String Needlework Basket. The author reveals the wide range of materials and equipment now readily available, and explains the basic techniques, including threading, whipping and appliqueing along with advice on getting started and examples of fine work.
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This original craft book celebrates the full artistic potential of this humble material, with practical and beautiful items to make such as a string-wrapped picture frame, a string-embroidered bag, a candelabra and a jute tassel.
In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature. Addressing the work of writers like Tomson Highway and Basil Johnston along with that of lesser-known authors writing in prison serials and underground publications, this book emphasizes the literary and political strategies these authors use to resist the containment of their institutions. The first part of the book considers a diverse sample of writing from prison serials, prisoners’ anthologies, and individual autobiographies, including Stolen Life by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, to show how these works serve as second hearings for their authors—an opportunity to respond to the law’s authority over their personal and public identities while making a plea to a wider audience. The second part looks at residential school narratives and shows how the authors construct identities for themselves in ways that defy the institution’s control. The interactions between these two bodies of writing—residential school accounts and prison narratives—invite recognition of the ways that guilt is colonially constructed and how these authors use their writing to distance themselves from that guilt. Offering new ways of reading Native writing, From the Iron House is a pioneering study of prison literature in Canada and situates its readings within international criticism of prison writing. Contributing to genre studies and theoretical understandings of life writing, and covering a variety of social topics, this work will be relevant to readers interested in indigenous studies, Canadian cultural studies, postcolonial studies, auto/biography studies, law, and public policy.
The age-old craft of stringwork is updated and transformed with inspirational designs and exciting projects for you to try at home. Create beautiful and functional objects as diverse as a String-Wrapped Picture Frame and a Coiled String Needlework Basket. The author reveals the wide range of materials and equipment now readily available, and explains the basic techniques, including threading, whipping and appliqueing along with advice on getting started and examples of fine work.
Celebrating the glories of flowers in the home, this book moves beyond flower arranging to present gloriously original suggestions for fabulous flower effects and floral objects.
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