Tells how to find, bargain for, buy, and decorate with antiques. Gives suggestions on discovering hidden treasures at garage sales, auctions, and antique shops. Lists ten great antique magazines and ten essential price guides for antiques.
Instructions are for creating hand-hooked rugs in the primitive style.
Explores the history of batik and tie-dye and uses photographs to illustrate various procedures. Tells how to plan a rug, what weight wool to use, how to recycle old wool, how to care for braided rugs, and describes the necessary tools. Has instructions for braiding an oval, a circle, and a heart, plus 16 other rugs. This 5th edition makes it easy to locate materials for craft projects. Here's the first book to cover brush strokes and projects in order of difficulty.