The Country Store

The Country Store

Author: Stephanie Donaldson

Publisher: Lorenz Books

Published: 1999-05-01

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781840382457

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Provides projects and recipes for creating and preparing country-style food, crafts, and decorations.


Craft in America

Craft in America

Author: Jo Lauria

Publisher: Potter Style

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0307346471

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Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft


Traditional Country Craftsmen

Traditional Country Craftsmen

Author: J. Geraint Jenkins

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2009-07-15

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1445620251

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Traditional Country Craftsmen provides an essential insight into a wide range of country crafts and skills.


Traditional Crafts and Skills from the Country

Traditional Crafts and Skills from the Country

Author: Monte Burch

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1493061992

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Time-honored practices for a more self-reliant and satisfying lifestyle. Ever have the urge to raise your own chickens, grind your own flour, or start your own compost pile? If any of these ideas sound appealing, this is the book for you. A growing number of people are intrigued by the "homesteader" experience and the idea of doing things themselves, whether they own a big spread in the wilderness or live on a small plot of land in the suburbs. Traditional Crafts and Skills from the Country presents the practical information necessary to become more self-reliant at home, pick up a new hobby, or even learn a skill that may provide a secondary income. The authors' crafts and skills include: beekeeping; raising sheep and goats; starting seeds; composting; felling trees; building split-rail fences; making soap and candles; drying and preserving foods; laying stone; making butter and cheese; reading the weather; and much more. From raising livestock to woodcrafting, from the garden to the kitchen, Monte and Joan Burch have a fresh and easy-to-follow approach to country wisdom that is sure to win over even the most die-hard city dweller.


The Arts and Crafts Country House

The Arts and Crafts Country House

Author: Clive Aslet

Publisher: Aurum Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845136802

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he Arts and Crafts Country House is a fascinating and beautifully illustrated survey of some of Britain's most important houses. The Arts and Crafts Movement produced some of our country's greatest works of design, architecture and decorative art. It grew out of a reaction against the Industrial Revolution in the late 1850s, inspired by an alternative vision of life based on the revival of traditional building crafts and the use of local materials. Country Life magazine, founded in 1897, championed the movement in the weekly articles it devoted to country houses, illustrated with specially commissioned photographs. In his stunning book, Clive Aslet draws upon this unique archive to provide a detailed survey of 25 major country houses, designed by the movement's foremost architects, including Lutyens, Webb, Williams-Ellis and Blow. He also shows how the Arts and Crafts tradition continues to influence architects today. The 22nd title in this acclaimed series, The Arts and Crafts Country House reveals the enduring legacy of an architectural ideal.


Telling the Bees and Other Customs

Telling the Bees and Other Customs

Author: Mark Norman

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2020-05-13

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 0750995335

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As featured in The New York Times... Throughout the history of civilisation, traditional crafts have been passed down from hand to skilled hand. Blacksmithing, brewing, beekeeping, baking, milling, spinning, knitting and weaving: these skills held societies together, and so too shaped their folklore and mythology. Exploring the folklore connected with these rural crafts, Telling the Bees examines the customs, superstitions and stories woven into some of the world's oldest trades. From the spinning of the Fates to the blacksmith's relationship with the devil, and the symbolism of John Barleycorn to a ritual to create bees from the corpse of a cow – these are the traditions upon which our modern world was built.


Traditional Crafts of Ireland

Traditional Crafts of Ireland

Author: David Shaw-Smith

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2003-09-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 050051142X

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A testament to the craft traditions of Ireland covering over 40 crafts, from woodcarvers, thatchers, goldsmiths and potters to glassblowers of the famous Waterford crystal, 'crios' weavers from the Aran Islands, and the makers of harps, quilts, baskets and curraghs, drystone walls and Irish lace.


Cræft

Cræft

Author: Alex Langlands

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780393635904

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An archaeologist takes us into the ancient world of traditional crafts to uncover their deep, original histories.