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Learn techniques, tips, and tricks to turn your next clay creation
into a stunning sensation Packed with pictures and loaded with
ideas, Krafty Kiddos Clay will put you on the road to success Pages
are easy and fun to read with concise text and lots of pictures.
Read the book in its entirety, jump around, or use it as a
reference guide. It's up to you Learn how to make banks, puzzles,
vases, and plaques. The projects are FUN, the ideas are SIMPLE, and
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In the introduction to John P. Hart's study on Nacogdoches's
historic Washington Square Mound, Timothy K. Perttula notes that
publication of Hart's finding is long overdue. The Washington
Square mound site, he describes, "is a Caddo multiple mound center"
and is "one of the few known Caddo mound sites in the
Neches-Angelina river basins in East Texas, and the study of its
archeological deposits has contributed important and unique
information on the lifeways, social and political organization, and
religious beliefs of ancestral Caddo peoples" who occupied the area
circa A.D. 1250-1425. Hart's research reveals invaluable details
about Caddo tribal life, particularly derived from decorative and
engraved pottery retrieved from the Mound, and, for the first time,
makes this information available to a wider audience.
Petrography is the minute examination by microscope of rock and
mineral samples for the purpose of determining precisely their
mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B.
Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to
petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic
Petrography and Hopewell Interaction, by adapting petrography to
the study of pottery, Stoltman offers a powerful new set of tools
that enable fact-based and rigorous identification of pottery.
Stoltman's subject is the cultural interaction among the "Hopewell
interaction sphere," societies of the Ohio Valley region and
contemporary peoples of the Southeast. Inferring social and
commercial relationships between disparate communities by
determining whether objects found in one settlement originated
there or elsewhere is a foundational technique of archaeology. The
technique, however, rests on the informed but necessarily imperfect
visual inspection of objects by archaeologists. Petrography greatly
amplifies archaeologists' ability to determine objects' provenance
with greater precision and less guesswork. Using petrography to
study a vast quantity of pottery samples sourced from Hopewell
communities, Stoltman is able for the first time to establish which
items are local, which are local but atypical, and which originated
elsewhere. Another exciting possibility with petrography is to
further determine the home source of objects that came from afar.
Thus, combining traditional qualitative techniques with a wealth of
new quantitative data, Ceramic Petrography and Hopewell Interaction
offers a map of social and trade relationships between communities
within and beyond the Hopewell interaction sphere with much greater
precision and confidence than in the past. Ceramic Petrography and
Hopewell Interaction provides a clear and concise explanation of
petrographic methods, Stoltman's findings about Hopewell and
Southeastern ceramics in various sites, and the fascinating
discovery that visits to Hopewell centers by Southeastern Native
Americans were not only for trade purposes but more for such
purposes as pilgrimages, vision- and power-questing, healing, and
the acquisition of knowledge.
23 full size equine stained glass projects depicting the sport of
eventing. Patterns include an all- purpose saddle nightlight, a 3-D
log jump, 17 suncatchers representing the dressage, cross-country
and stadium phases of eventing, and four Christmas ornaments.
Helpful hints, pctures, and instructions for projects are also
included.
The models in this project book are designed to be robust and
simple to make. The models are built using basic pottery techniques
and will help to reinforce and build on the skills introduced in
our "Clay modelling" series: - "Simple Animals volumes 1 & 2."
And the slightly more complex project book "Upright Animals." We
use the same style of step by step text instruction backed by still
photos of each significant stage. Instructions with worksheets
allow you to make each of the figures shown on the cover. Also
included is a section I have called "Variation on a Theme" which
introduces an alternative style of fashioning the arms, effectively
doubling the number of models available to make. Design Your Own
Rollifolk Person is meant as a challenge to students who learn to
apply the techniques and can demonstrate the skills to produce
their own models based on the techniques.
Decorative arts is my passion. Create comfortable spaces for the
enjoyment and admiration to whom observe, it's for me
indispensable. I studied Interior Design and worked as a Graphic
Artist in my own studio through 15 years. In the last years I was
taking Museum courses in the University of Puerto Rico and in the
Museum and Humanistic Studies of the Turabo University. Creativity
is my goal and I understand that it's a must to use this to create
decorative pieces with illumination using stained glass. I took a
Stained Glass course in the Arts and Crafts Workshop of the
University of Puerto Rico and began to design using stained glass
as a focal point. I joined my passion for the arts and the stained
glass technique to create unique pieces that were decorative and
functional. Use stained glass from another perspective is my
challenge. I discovered the Arts and Crafts Movement and
immediately identified myself with this style. Their distinctive
characteristics are simple design, good materials and well done
work, because of this, is no wondering that is a fundamental
element in interior design until today. I studied the development
of the Arts and Crafts Movement and I think that it's a style where
many crafts artists and industrial designers can identify and work
to contribute for the history of modern furniture and decorative
arts in Puerto Rico. I exhort to observe, support and wonder with
the work of the crafts artists that today contribute with their
work for the enjoyment of the art lovers and collectors. This book
is a compilation of my first projects patterns as an artisan. Hope
you enjoy the Caribbean Inspirations of my Puerto Rican Culture.
Discussions and scientific exchange are crucial for the advancement
of a young discipline such as the study of Roman pottery in the
Near East. Therefore, in addition to large conferences such as the
'Late Roman Coarse Ware Conference' (LRCW) where the Near East
plays only a marginal role, an international workshop with 20
participants dedicated solely to the study of Roman common ware
pottery in the Near East was held in Berlin on 18th and 19th
February 2010. The goal of this workshop was to provide researchers
actively engaged in the study of Roman common wares the possibility
to meet and discuss the current state of research as well as
questions and problems they are facing with their material. Some of
the participants were able to bring pottery samples, which provided
the possibility to compare and discuss the identification and
denomination of specific fabrics on a regional and supra-regional
scale. This volume presents 17 papers from this stimulating event.
The Archaeopress series, Roman and Late Antique Mediterranean
Pottery (RLAMP) is devoted to research of the Roman and late
Antique pottery in the Mediterranean. It is designed to serve as a
reference point for all potential authors devoted to pottery
studies on a pan-Mediterranean basis. The series seeks to gather
innovative individual or collective research on the many dimensions
of pottery studies ranging from pure typological and chronological
essays, to diachronic approaches to particular classes, the
complete publication of ceramic deposits, pottery deposit
sequences, archaeometry of ancient ceramics, methodological
proposals, studies of the economy based on pottery evidence or,
among others, ethnoarchaeological ceramic research that may help to
understand the production, distribution and consumption of pottery
in the Mediterranean basin.
What's cuter than a bouncy, cuddly puppy? A portrait of that puppy
in stained glass Best in Show: Puppy Class captures 28 purebred
puppies in poses ranging from portraits to play, with patterns
designed for glass artists of all levels of expertise.
Colourful and dynamic art inspires me. However, I never expected it
to lead me on a life-changing journey. A physical and intellectual
journey. Physical because it involved the discovery and examination
of vases of extraordinary beauty from Venice and Murano, Italy.
Intellectual because it involved deep reflection about the meaning
of art and its function as a "repository and conduit of culture."
My journey centered around the work of Vittorio Ferro. With a
working life in the glass industry of sixty-seven years, he was one
of the world's greatest masters of murrine glass. My interest fast
became multi-dimensional, I began photographing vases and went to
Venice and Murano to find out more. Publishing became important to
complete what had become a significant and passionate part of my
life. This book records my journey. A "vasegraphy" (va: z-e-grafi)
or study of sixty-seven rare murrine vases made by Vittorio Ferro,
one-third signed, revealed in a kaleidoscope of Venice and Murano,
and my new understanding of art. A photographic journey with a
fresh approach to glass.
This book is an analysis of a collection of artefacts from the
Neolithic period of the southern Levant. Although they have
traditionally been identified as human images, the relationship of
some of them to naturalistic human anatomy is tenuous, and, drawing
on comparative examples from other periods and locations, Estelle
Orrelle interprets them as images of Gods. Situating the artefacts
in the context of the Neolithic transition, she shows how a
Darwinian symbolic origins theory can explain the emergence of this
iconography; that it lies in ancient sexual selection strategies,
as power relations changed from an original social contract
underpinned by female ritual power, to a new social contract driven
by competing male elites."
This book surveys four thousand years of pottery production and
presents totally unexpected fresh information, using technical and
analytical methods. It provides a study of ancient pottery of
Jerusalem, from the earliest settlement to the medieval city and
brings to light important aspects that cannot be discovered by the
commonly accepted morphological pottery descriptions. New insights
include the discovery that third millennium BCE pottery appears to
have been produced by nomadic families, middle Bronze Age ceramics
were made by professional potters in the Wadi Refaim, the pottery
market of the Iron Age II pottery cannot be closely dated and is
still produced during the first centuries after the exile, and the
new shapes are made by Greek immigrant potters. The book contains a
chapter on the systematics of ceramic studies and numerous notes
about the potters themselves.
Over 360 beautiful color photos display machine-made marbles in
many varieties. They were produced by American manufacturers,
including Alley Agate, Champion, Jackson Marble, Master Glass,
Playrite, and Vacor. Marbles displayed include Cat's Eyes,
Glassies, Moss Agates, Opals, Patches, Swirls, and more. The text
provides fascinating facts about each company's marble production.
A helpful rating system indicates which marble types from each firm
were its good, better, or best work. A bibliography and index are
included. Values for the marbles displayed are found in the
captions. This book will be a thrill for all who enjoy a passion
for beautiful glass.
"Best In Show" offers stained glass artists a beautiful array of
patterns for purebred dogs in a variety of poses - from portraits
to panels, classic to playful. The book features 35 patterns
representing all seven AKC groups. Patterns are available for every
level of expertise.
The Starving Artist's Lampwork Project Book includes 18 illustrated
step-by-step lampworked glass projects for the beginning to
intermediate lampworker. Starting with a brief tutorial of basic
lampworking methods, the techniques and projects included here were
originally created for use in rehabilitation centers for soldiers
returning from overseas after World War II. Also known as
scientific glassblowing, lampwork is a method of manipulating glass
rods and tubes in a gas torch flame to construct a variety of
practical and artistic items. No furnace is required, and the
necessary tools and materials can be readily obtained at reasonable
cost.
This is the first of a series of publications designed to be used
as teaching or learning aids to be used by teachers to develop clay
modelling skills themselves or as classroom projects to develop
pupil's clay modelling skills. The models are based on years of
experience teaching in nursery and primary education and with
groups of adults and children with special educational needs. Each
book contains several practical projects, demonstrated in a step by
step manner enabling you to create the models shown on the cover.
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