Artful Living in Celtic Homes
By: no
Edition: no
Series: no
Publisher: The Tanach Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Adelaide, South Australia
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 120
Copyright date: 2000
Other titles: Living in Celtic Homes is on the cover, the full title is on the inside page
Description: Celtic farming and fishing families once made everything they needed at home by hand, from natural materials. They fashioned kitchenware and furniture from moss and straw, pine resin and whalebone or driftwood and seashells.
Whether creating a song or a whisky cup there was a sense of pleasure in getting it right and an instinct for beauty - this life was full of art.
Accompanied by over thirty original illustrations from the Hebridean Islands to the mountains of Donegal, here is a story of lives spent in the open air and by the fireside, weaving, spinning, mending nets, or singing, dancing and storytelling.
Notes: copiously illustrated with charming black and white drawings made by the author
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Around the Hearth; title: Chapter 2 Goddess of Fire; title: Chapter 3 The Moon and Plant Life