Schiffer Craft

Building Gourd Birdhouses with the Fairy Gourdmother®

$24.99

Offer your feathered neighbors a handcrafted home. This detailed project book for making and decorating gourd birdhouses and feeders is complete with patterns, color palettes, supply lists, and step-by-step directions for each project. The Fairy Gourdmother® walks you through creating...

Hand Planes in the Modern Shop

$39.99

Plane users, craftsmen who would like to become plane users, and plane collectors all will find a wealth of how-to information, backed with more than 500 images in this definitive guide to hand planes. The use of hand planes results...

Creating Gourd Birds with the Fairy Gourdmother®

$24.99

The Fairy Gourdmother® returns with another brilliant step-by-step guide to crafting with gourds, and this time it's for the birds! Follow along as she walks you through building and decorating twelve feathered friends, from the austere Edgar Allen Crow to...

The Art of Flower Photography

$34.99

This book is for all who have wanted to capture the beauty of flowers in photographs, but felt they lacked the experience to succeed. With 215 vivid color photos of a wide range of flowers, professional photographer Lucian Niemeyer takes...

Antler Art for Baskets and Gourds

$19.99

Illustrated, step-by-step directions for 20 basket and gourd antler projects. Enhance your gourd vessel or basket with antlers. Containing 169 color images and step-by-step instructions, learn how to drill, frame, and attach antlers to a traditional weave basket, gourd bowl,...

Felt, Fiber, and Stone

$16.99

Learn to make beaded and fiber jewelry with unique designs and techniques that will kindle the creative spirit. Beginning with materials and techniques used in crocheting, making felt flowers, and beading, go on to make chunky brooches, earrings, necklaces and...

Carving Mexican Wrestlers

$16.99

With step-by-step photos and instructions, this book teaches wood carvers the steps necessary to create six of Mexico's colorful, costumed wrestlers, the Lucha Libre. The wrestlers bring a time-honored tradition to the wood carving world. Patterns for six different wrestlers...

Tiffany Studios' Techniques

$100.00

This brilliantly assembled book explores the creative media that master designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) and his Tiffany Studios in New York pioneered, coupled with related masterpieces that contemporary artists have made. Nine chapters present Tiffany's original paintings and fine...

Fundamentals of Model Boat Building

$34.99

Learn the stages necessary to successfully design and model the most versatile and widely used types of hull construction. Over 180 striking color photos detail completed models and construction stages. Over 40 line drawings provide detailed plans and renderings necessary...

Edgar Brandt

$79.99

The life and Art Deco iron furnishings and architecture work of French metalsmith Edgar Brandt, through over 300 color and rare period photographs.  A premier metalsmith in the early 20th century in France, Edgar Brandt (1880-1960) designed and fabricated some of...

How to Carve Bellamy Eagles

$16.99

Patterns, painting and finishing instructions for how to carve three Bellamy style eagle figures.  John Haley Bellamy (1836-1914) was a folk art woodcarver from New England, best known for his eagles. His work is prized today by collectors, and has...

Making More Gourd Ornaments

$19.99

Learn techniques for making holiday ornaments out of fruit gourds. Make a Santa head from a banana gourd, a snow couple from mini-bottleneck gourds, and shiny ornaments from egg gourds. Eight projects show how to make your holiday gourd come...

Making Simple Felted Jewelry

$9.99

Wool jewelry is sure to freshen up all wardrobes. With easy step-by-step directions and 113 color images, basic techniques are demonstrated and 4 projects are featured. Make a brooch, necklace, wrap-around bracelet, or accessorize a purse or a hat. These...

Pickin’ Stick

$16.99

An illustrated woodworking guide to building, stringing, tuning, and playing your own pickin’ stick. The pickin’ stick is an easy-to-play, steel-stringed instrument with a diatonic scale, but it is also the perfect first instrument for aspiring luthiers. This illustrated woodworking...

Glass Art From the Kiln

$50.00

Learn the versatility of glass and how it can be inspired by art. Methods for cutting, fusing, and cold working glass are provided, with reference maps for fusing and simple shapes. 292 beautiful color photos and an engaging text present...

Pearl Projects for Beaders

$24.99

Learn to make your own jewelry designs with pearls. Step-by-step photographs, patterns, and simple-to-follow instructions guide you through 23 projects that showcase the color, luster, shape, and size of pearls. Mix pearls with crystals or semi-precious stones. Chapters present beads,...

Apples to Apples

$19.99

The shape of an Apple Gourd makes it perfect to decorate for beginning artists. Ten projects include a 'Be My Valentine' gourd, fish and rooster adorned gourds, a gourd decorated with gift wrapper, and a 'Thinking of You' gourd with...

Italian Ironwork

$29.99

Italian ironwork from Roman times, through Medieval centuries, and up to Neo Classical designs of the early nineteenth century comprise this collection of 100 photographs from Italian sources. They depict trellises, grilles, gates, fencing, household lighting, fireplace accoutrements, and door...

Wharton Esherick and the Birth of the American Modern

$29.99

An exploration of Wharton Esherick's artistic evolution during the early decades of the twentieth century. Based on the exhibition in the Kamin and Kroiz Galleries of the University of Pennsylvania, this work expands upon the exhibition's themes with well over...

Weaving on Gourds

$19.99

Combine basket weaving and gourd art in this new DIY. With 200 color images and step-by-step directions, five projects are presented for both the beginner and advanced weaver: Twine and Triple Twine Gourd, Twill Woven Gourd, and a Gourd Basket...

Pilgrim Village

$9.99

Enjoy hours of fun with your children coloring and cutting out these Thanksgiving characters and buildings. You will be transported to another time as you create your own Pilgrim village and watch it come alive. Included are all the pieces...

Crafted from Nature

$16.99

The author features three women who share their special designs of rustic woodworking. Using the materials that nature provides, they create beautiful furniture and accessories for home and garden. New Yorker Jane Voorhees creates a picture frame using birch bark...

Linen

$49.99

A look at the remarkable fiber of linen, from seed to woven fabric. Learn about flax cultivation, processing and spinning, natural and synthetic dyeing, and weaving and finishing linen cloth. Over 230 color photos and over 150 black and white...

Braiding with Barbara*TM : Wool Rug Braiding

$19.99

Get ready to braid a wool rug with an expert, Barbara Fisher. The supplies needed include normal tools a sewer has around the house. Then follow her step-by-step braiding instructions to learn the process and two techniques for making large...

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