London Stitch and Knit

London Stitch and Knit

Author: Leigh Metcalf

Publisher: Black Dog Pub Limited

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781910433522

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London Stitch and Knit: A Craft Lover?s Guide to London?s Fabric, Knitting and Haberdashery Shops presents a brilliantly designed guide to London?s best fabric, knitting and haberdashery shops. With a design aesthetic to inspire any craft lover, London Stitch and Knit seamlessly documents the city?s best to provide a comprehensive guide that encompasses the handmade and the vintage whilst illustrating the delightful microcosm of London?s craft scene. Freelance writer and photographer Leigh Metcalf discovers the hidden gems in London?s ever-growing craft community, promoting independent shops as well as craftspeople and their work. Ever since she arrived in London from the US, she has made it her mission to discover the best places for haberdashery supplies. Drawing on her experience from the last five years, Leigh combines well-informed narrative, illustrations and a beautiful, layered design, to discover the history and operations of approximately 50 shops?divided by London territories. Metcalf graduated from Georgia State University with a BA in English Literature and formerly worked as an Assistant Director of Admissions at the Art Institute of Atlanta. Her freelance career has seen articles published for magazines such as Mollie Makes and Pretty Nostalgic. London Stitch and Knit is born of Metcalf?s successful blog (http://foundnowhome.blogspot.co.uk/), described by Lauren Smith, Creative Director of Pop-Up Magazine as ?one of only a handful of blogs that I even bother reading anymore?.


The Sweat Shop Book

The Sweat Shop Book

Author: Martena Duss

Publisher: Ivy Books

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781907332883

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"Sweat Shop is Paris's first 'café couture', where visitors come, rent a sewing machine, have a slice of velvety chocolate cake, and create something unique with their own sweat. ..."--Book flap.


Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics

Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics

Author: Leigh Metcalf

Publisher: Syngress

Published: 2016-06-07

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0128044993

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Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics explores the mathematical concepts necessary for effective cybersecurity research and practice, taking an applied approach for practitioners and students entering the field. This book covers methods of statistical exploratory data analysis and visualization as a type of model for driving decisions, also discussing key topics, such as graph theory, topological complexes, and persistent homology. Defending the Internet is a complex effort, but applying the right techniques from mathematics can make this task more manageable. This book is essential reading for creating useful and replicable methods for analyzing data. - Describes mathematical tools for solving cybersecurity problems, enabling analysts to pick the most optimal tool for the task at hand - Contains numerous cybersecurity examples and exercises using real world data - Written by mathematicians and statisticians with hands-on practitioner experience


Craft and the Creative Economy

Craft and the Creative Economy

Author: S. Luckman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1137399686

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Craft and the Creative Economy examines the place of craft and making in the contemporary cultural economy, with a distinctive focus on the ways in which this creative sector is growing exponentially as a result of online shopfronts and home-based micro-enterprise, 'mumpreneurialism' and downshifting, and renewed demand for the handmade.


Jane's Parlour

Jane's Parlour

Author: O. Douglas

Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions

Published: 2021-11-06T15:12:00Z

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 1774643200

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A domestic tale of country gentlefolk, between the Wars, and their families, friends and acquaintances, mostly in their beloved Scotland, but also in London. Jane’s Parlour is the cosy sanctum where Katharyn, wife, mother of five children and writer, retreats for peace and re-invigoration, serving as a symbol of a settled fulfilling country life.


To Life!

To Life!

Author: Linda Weintraub

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0520273613

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This title documents the burgeoning eco art movement from A to Z, presenting a panorama of artistic responses to environmental concerns, from Ant Farms anti-consumer antics in the 1970s to Marina Zurkows 2007 animation that anticipates the havoc wreaked upon the planet by global warming.


Constituent Imagination

Constituent Imagination

Author: Stevphen Shukaitis

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781904859352

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From the ivory tower to the barricades! Radical intellectuals explore the relationship between research and resistance.


Fibershed

Fibershed

Author: Rebecca Burgess

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing

Published: 2019-11-19

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1603586636

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The Cost of Our Clothes -- The Fibershed Movement -- Soil-to-Soil Clothing and the Carbon Cycle -- The False Solution of Synthetic Biology -- Implementing the Vision with Plant-Based Fibers -- Implementing the Vision with Animal Fibers and Mills -- Expanding the Fibershed Model -- A Future Based in Truth.


Knit Vintage

Knit Vintage

Author: Madeline Weston

Publisher: White Lion Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781906417666

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'Knit Vintage' offers a fantastic selection of more than 20 timeless designs based on original women's knitwear patterns from the 1930s to the 1950s. Drawing from their own extensive collections of vintage knitting patterns, the authors have chosen garments for their classic style and updated them to appeal to 21st century tastes.


Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art

Publisher: Lucia Marquand

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781555953614

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This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.