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Author: Rodrick Owen
Publisher: Schiffer Craft
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764351037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn to make the decorative braids used in the sling-making traditions of Peru and Bolivia; this detailed guide, including 400 step-by-step photos, teaches the technique and over 100 designs for weavers, craftspeople, jewelrydesigners, basket weavers, and others interested in using braids for embellishment.
Author: Adele Cahlander
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rodrick Owen
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2017-11-28
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780764354304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive, full-color guide features dozens of images of slings from various cultures, both ancient and contemporary. Slings had great significance in many cultures, particularly in the Andes, and were often used as both prehistoric weapons and herding tools. The book shows novice and experienced braiders how to make 50 designs, from 8 to 32 strands, on a braiding card or with a braiding stand and bobbins. Learn step by step how to make an authentic Andean-style sling with braided cords and a tapestry-woven cradle. A range of techniques useful for beginning, ending, and embellishing slings are included, and can enhance a wide variety of other items, like jewelry, garments, and accessories. This book is a key resource for historians, anthropologists, textile artists, weapons experts, and others to learn the practical skills for understanding sling braids' structure. Includes braiding card and plans to make core stand.
Author: Akio Sakai
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9781891656521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElementary techniques of 12 maru-dai, 30 kaku-dai and 20 ayatake-dai are included.
Author: Denise Y. Arnold
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 490
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herman Melville
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 384960361X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the extended and annotated edition including an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life. When Israel Potter leaves his plough to fight in the American Revolution, he's immediately thrown into the Battle of Bunker Hill, where he receives multiple wounds. However, this does not deter him, and after hearing a rousing speech by General George Washington, he volunteers for further duty, this time at sea, where more ill fortune awaits him. Israel is captured by the British Navy and taken to England. Yet, he makes his escape, and this triggers a series of extraordinary events and meetings with remarkable people. Along the way, Israel encounters King George III, who takes a liking to the Yankee rebel and shelters him in Kew Gardens; Benjamin Franklin, who presses Israel into service as a spy; John Paul Jones, who invites Israel to join his crew aboard The Ranger; and Ethan Allen, whom Israel attempts to free from a British prison. (from wikipedia.com)
Author: Elayne Zorn
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1587295229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe people of Taquile Island on the Peruvian side of beautiful Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the Americas, are renowned for the hand-woven textiles that they both wear and sell to outsiders. One thousand seven hundred Quechua-speaking peasant farmers, who depend on potatoes and the fish from the lake, host the forty thousand tourists who visit their island each year. Yet only twenty-five years ago, few tourists had even heard of Taquile. In Weaving a Future: Tourism, Cloth, and Culture on an Andean Island, Elayne Zorn documents the remarkable transformation of the isolated rock.
Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0190673060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFifth Sun offers a comprehensive history of the Aztecs, spanning the period before conquest to a century after the conquest, based on rarely-used Nahuatl-language sources written by the indigenous people.
Author: Alexander Henry
Publisher: New-York : I. Riley
Published: 1809
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rodrick Owen
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781883010065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes a look at two families of braids, Peruvian, and Japanese braids, and shows more than 50 different braid designs incorporating over 250 patterns
