One of the most intriguing cultural artifacts of our nation's past was made by young girls the embroidery sampler. In Ohio Is My Dwelling Place, American decorative arts expert Sue Studebaker documents the samplers created in Ohio prior to 1850, the girls who made them, their families, and the teachers who taught them to stitch. In this lavishly illustrated book, these now highly prized works are coupled with the stories behind their creations and the circumstances under which they were...
Here is a unique book. It describes the theories and processes of repairing and adjusting the modern watch in precise and meticulous detail: a thing which has never been done so completely before in the many books on the same subject. As a text book it is a revelation. Taking nothing for granted, except the ability to read and comprehend a simple description of mechanical processes, de Carle takes his reader through every stage and every operation of watch repairing ...and to deal with them thor...
More than 100 years after the first movie delighted audiences, movie theaters remain the last great community centers and one of the few amusements any family can afford. This definitive history of the American movie theater shows how changes in moviemaking and political, social and technological forces have influenced the way we
The art of drinking--one sip at a time! Mix up dozens of cocktails-to-go and drink recipes to bring along in your favorite flask with this fun new collection! Flasks are a centuries-old staple in the pockets of anyone who loves a good drink, and this book celebrates the history and many uses of this classic drinking vessel. Discover how famous figures have used and loved their own flasks--and use their ideas to fuel your own fixings! With dozens of cocktail recipes for what to put in your flask...
At more than 500 pages, and featuring 1000 detailed reproductions, this handsome, extensive collection catalogue complements and updates Kathryn C. Buhler's landmark 1972 opus, American Silver, 1655-1825. It includes all of the American silver in the Museum of Fine Art's esteemed collection, including many previously unpublished works acquired between 1972 and 2004. Also featured are a number of works created after 1825 that did not appear in the Buhler catalogue--such as a Tiffany pitcher from...
The stuff of American life! It's at the heart of the American Dream: Invent a new product that fills a need, strikes a nerve or just seems like good fun and then--bang! Amass a fortune selling it to the world! Made in America tells over 200 such stories of the little (and big) products that could. Inventions and innovations that changed the world in ways both large and small are featured, from the accidental creations of icons like Coca-Cola and the Slinky to culture-changing technology such as...
This beautiful book by Joanna Sheen contains easy instructions, ideas and inspiration for making greetings cards based on paper lace products, including paper doilies, rubber-stamped lace designs, die-cut and laser-cut lace. Suitable for absolute beginners, it includes simple techniques, for example stamping, embossing and decoupage, and there are clear, step-by-step photographs to guide you through the six beautiful projects. With ideas for other designs accompanying each project, this book wi...
'Gloriously dark, deliciously twisty' CLARE MACKINTOSH ONE FAMILY, TWO HOLIDAYS, ONE DEVASTATING SECRETTo new nanny Amanda, the Temple family seem to have it all: the former actress; the famous professor; their three successful grown-up children. But like any family, beneath the smiles and hugs there lurks far darker emotions.Sixteen years earlier, little Niamh Temple died while they were on holiday in Portugal. Now, as Amanda joins the family for a reunion at their seaside villa, she begins to...
Shaker Design (Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts(YUP))
by Jean Burks
An exploration of 200 years of Shaker design and spirituality, with new attention to Shaker influence on contemporary design Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester, England, in 1776 to avoid persecution, the Shakers crossed the Atlantic and during the next 50 years established 19 villages from Maine to Kentucky. The Shakers wer...
At the turn of the 20th century, the circus was the most popular form of American entertainment, and New York City was the hub of circus-related activity. Featuring superb archival photography, this book documents a wide variety of ephemera, images, and artifacts relating to the history of the circus in the city, from the seminal equestrian displays of the 18th century to the iconic railroad circuses of the late 19th century. Matthew Wittmann offers a thorough history of the circus in New York C...
Pin-Ups
by Earl Moran, Billy DeVorss, Rolf Armstrong, Peter Driben, Mabel Harris, Al Buell, Earl Christy, Edward D'Ancona, Zoe Mozert, and and more
This lovely gift book—available in three striking cover options that will be shipped to customers at random—will beguile a new generation with flirtatious representations of femininity from the 1940s and 50s. Illustrations of irresistible pinup models bring teasing frivolity to a range of everyday situations, organized thematically from morning to evening. From sun-kissed beauties at the beach to ski bunnies hitting the slopes, bedside nurses ready to take your temperature to scantily clad runaw...
This wonderful treasury surveys nearly 300 years of quilt history, techniques, patterns, and styles. Originally stimulated by the desire for warmth and the need to economize, quilt-making evolved from an extremely practical enterprise into an elaborate and highly personal art form. From the simple, serviceable quilts of the early colonists to the work of twentieth-century quilters, this beautifully illustrated volume surveys virtually every type of quilt and pattern and details the techniques, t...
Imagined by Maly Siri, this coffee table book and accompanying postcard box set is a love letter to vintage magazines and an invitation to enter the spellbinding world of pin-ups. An homage inspired by the iconography of the 1930’s to 1950’s, a concentrate of pure glamour, Pin-Up looks back at vintage magazines, giving an invitation to enter the spellbinding world of luscious pin-up models.
This is a book about “a beautiful and gallant craft” - the personification, in a wooden boat, of the finest qualities of the Adirondack culture of the 19th century. Beautifully illustrated, The Adirondack Guideboat is the definitive guide to these beautiful boats and their makers, both early and contemporary.
American Pickers Guide to Picking
by Libby Callaway and Mike Wolfe
Featuring 24 easy-to-assemble die-cut buildings, 8 ready-to-use postcards, plus road signs, billboards and vehicles and full page of self-adhesive stickers of decals and bumper stickers.