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If you've ever wanted to get started in the craft of clay making,
This book is the perfect place to start -- no kiln, wheel, or lathe
needed. A complete, beginner-friendly guide that explains
everything you need to know, this is an exciting resource that's
filled with insight on setting up a workshop space, different tools
and clays, common terms to know, and other clay-making basics. From
there, more than 50 elegant but simple clay projects for the home,
ranging from candlesticks and flower vases to plates, cutting
boards, lidded jars and jugs are featured with step-by-step
instructions and stunning photography. Also included are lots of
decorative technique tutorials for modeling, coiling, printing,
stamping, mixing, and tinting. Combining simple skills with an
elevated design aesthetic, this craft book is a must-have for any
maker and DIYer looking to try something new, easy, affordable, and
fun.
Knitting and crochet have long been considered forms of folk art,
but in the 21st century, these time-honoured crafts are breaking
away from the outdated stereotype of cosy domesticity. Whether
miniature or oversized, multi-coloured or monochrome, abstract or
naturalistic, intimate or exhibitionist, knitted works are now
invading galleries, museums and other public spaces. Yarn has
become a medium for artistic expression as valid and multifaceted
as painting, sculpture or photography. Showcasing forty
international artists who incorporate knitting, crochet and more
into their practice, this book provides a survey of yarn work in
contemporary art, illustrating the huge range of ways in which
these techniques have been embraced as a form of creative
expression. Some artists evoke a kind of nostalgia, rediscovering
skills that have fallen from fashion or promoting the value of
ancient handicrafts in an industrialized world of mass-production.
Others push the boundaries of knitting by using non-traditional
materials such as rope or wire, or by using its sculptural
potential to tackle themes that are political, personal or
transgressive. Although often associated with feelings of warmth,
enclosure and familial love, yarn can also represent the ties that
bind us together or a membrane that protects us from the world.
Packed with striking images, this book demonstrates how knitting
needles and crochet hooks can created works of art that are
challenging and unique, forcing us to take a fresh look at our own
lives and beliefs and at the objects that surround us every day.
No longer considered merely decorative, ceramic art has broken free
from the dusty display cases to which it was once relegated and is
now taking centre stage in contemporary galleries. Although often
integrating traditional modelling, firing and glazing techniques
into their output, the 90 artists featured here invite us to look
at ceramics in a different way. Whether creating monumental
installations or intricate miniatures, imaginary beasts or
life-size human figures, they subtly blur the borders between art
and craft, sometimes conceiving witty or unnerving twists on
traditional ceramic forms, sometimes using cutting-edge technology,
conceptual thinking and new platforms to push the boundaries of
clay and broaden its appeal. Packed with works that are questioning
and provocative, disturbing and seductive, this is an exciting
overview of a booming field.
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