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From the Back Cover:
Lowriders are some of the hottest vehicles on the road today, and no one knows how to build them better than the editors at Lowrider Magazine, the world's largest publication dedicated to the sport of lowriding. This book is a collection of the best technical articles that have appeared in previous issues of Lowrider, information to help you build the show-winning lowrider of your dreams. Sections covered include:
Great read for Lowrider fans...
If you want to know more about the sport or get ideas for your own vehicle this is a great book.Very informative on may different aspects.It is a must have for any lowrider owner or future lowrider owner.

The Best Yet!!!!!!!
This book is the clearest I've ever read. This book break is down. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automobiles    2. Automotive    3. Automotive - Customizing    4. Crafts & Hobbies    5. Customizing    6. Design and construction    7. Hobbies/Crafts    8. Lowriders    9. Reference    10. Crafts & Hobbies / General   

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Good book, could use rewriting/reformatting
I wanted to rate this 3.5 stars.
One of The Best Sock Books Out
I am won over by this book by Lucy Neatby for her creativeness in sock design, fantastic explanation of every thing related to sock knitting and humor infused writing. It starts off with a basic pattern then as you look further into the book, really nice designs are added (such as crenalated cuffs). This wonderful book has also enabled me buy more sock yarn - another sign of a really good book!
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Resin at its best
Kathie Murphy produces an excellent book which gives you an insight into the many types of resin, the pros and cons of using each type together with safety information.
great book
I like this book not only because it explains the technique of resin casting very well, but also for its beautiful pictures of real resin art. Although I will never be able to produce such work, you get the feeling that she sky is the limit with this material

Another Euro/English to American translation
This is another of the published both sides of the pond at the same time. The only problem with this book is the lack of carefull editing done by the U S publisher krause publications.
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pictures!
This book is very descriptive.It shows step by step photos that get rid of any confusion that is prevalent in most how-to books.

GREAT FOR BEGINNERS!!!
I had never made candles before buying this book. This book gives GREAT advice on everything from designs to supplies. The projects shown in the book are wonderfully described, and the pictures are so good you could use them alone if you wanted! The author does a great job of explaining the little things that I never would have thought of on my own. This is a must have for anyone who is new to candlemaking!

A must for beginners
I am totally new to candle making and This book takes you step by step through the process to get you started.There are plenty of pictures and simple, easy to understand directions.In addition, he gives helpful hints on some of the lower cost items you can use.Highly recommend it for any beginner. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Candlemaking    2. Candles    3. Crafts & Hobbies    4. Crafts / Hobbies    5. General    6. Hobbies/Crafts    7. Reference    8. Candle-making   

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You need a Gnome in your home!
This would be a terrific book for a grandmother or older sister to use with little kids, particularly if the kids like stories about elves or gnomes.Read more

Subjects:  1. Crafts & Hobbies    2. Crafts / Hobbies    3. Hobbies/Crafts    4. Miniatures    5. Reference    6. Toymaking - General    7. Decorative arts & crafts, other art forms    8. Models & model-making    9. children    10. crafts   

Editorial Review

Judith Miller is a recognized authority on antiques and collectibles and has written 15 bestsellingbooks on collecting and interior style. In Read more

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KUDOS AND CAVEATS
I bought this book when I needed information on BASIC care of my antiques of all sorts, including reviving leather on furniture and gilding on pictures, as well as polishing etc. To a small extent I got that. But most of the techniques in this book --most notably inthe section on upholstery -- while clear, leave a dangerous impression of ease. For almost any of them, you need a degree of skill that would make much of the advice unnecessary. Don't try upholstering anything from this book or you'll have a dead sofa! Theory is only a small part of handcraft. Even hand's on basic courses aren't enough. incidentally, if you want to clean gilt,say, forget it, though Miller tells you how to regild. NOT a basic care manual, in fact!

Excellent in-depth coverage of the topic
If you're someone faced with antique for the first time (like I was), this is exactly what you need. The book addresses all the repairs I'll have to do on my furniture and silverware, lists all the necessary material andtools as well as documents the procedures you have to follow. Highlyrecommended. ... Read more

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Adjectives without enough detail
I dislike purchasing books that offer more in the title than they deliver.I would have preferred more specifics in this book than narrative generalities.B/W photos were poor.The promised section on booth design left me with more questions than answers. This book offers nice filler information, but if you're looking for nuts and bolts, look elsewhere.

A hundred times better than the others
This book is hands down better than any of the other books out there about making it as a craftsperson selling at fairs. This book covers it all and is an excellent resource for beginners and more experienced crafters alike.

Great Book for beginner crafters
This book has been lots of help as I venture into my first year of selling my potter at shows!It tells you all the little secrets about promotors and events.Lots of great advice on setting up and maintaing a successful booth. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art (Economic Aspects)    2. Arts And Crafts    3. Craft festivals    4. Crafts & Hobbies    5. Crafts / Hobbies    6. Handicraft    7. Hobbies/Crafts    8. Marketing    9. Planning    10. Quilts & Quilting    11. Reference    12. Decorative arts & crafts    13. Handicrafts    14. Sales & marketing   

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The best
While many go ga-ga over the Chandler book, my teacher recommended this one to me and I have found it heaven sent and covers everything that a novice weaver could possibly need to know including the triangle, weavette & hand looms to the 4 and 8 shaft varieties.Sigrid gives lots of examples and by the end shows you how to take apart a design and recreate it.Wonderful book and cannot praise it highly enough. ... Read more

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from The Crafts Report
"An excellent resource . . . a well organized book is nothing without solid information and the book delivers here." -- The Crafts Report ... Read more

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Nightmare on Christmas
Read the review carefully -- I didn't and I'm sorry.The Publisher's Weekly review called their designs "gaudy" and boy are they right.Who in the world would have a Christmas tree in their house with a full sized mannequin stuffed into the tree dressed to look like Joan Crawford or Marilyn Monroe?And get this -- in the Joan Crawford tree, they have swan ornaments which -- everyone will know when they see them -- represent Ms. Crawford's transformation from ugly duckling to swan.Or how about the Lucille Ball tree -- disembodied hands holding brushes sticking out of the branches.I won't even get into the Cher tree, because it scared me.These people need to be visted by the ghosts of Christmas and have their heads straightened out. Please don't judge Los Angeles by these people -- I've lived here all my life and have never seen anything like this.This is a true nightmare before Christmas!

If you love Christmas decs, you'll enjoy this book!
Amazing decorated trees with different themes. Very American and very O.T.T but great for putting you in the mood for Christmas. Wonderful photographs!

Christmas Style - Recommended Highly
I love my new Christmas Style book, it's a beautifully shown and explained how-to book.
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Subjects:  1. Christmas decorations    2. Crafts & Hobbies    3. Crafts / Hobbies    4. Decorating    5. Hobbies/Crafts    6. Interior decoration    7. Reference    8. Seasonal    9. United States    10. Crafts & Hobbies / Seasonal   

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Preparation Chapter best part of the book
Debbie Travis' books are a mixed bag. Some of them I really like and some are scarce on steps and details. This book falls into the latter category. The best part of the book to me were the two chapters, "Preparing your Project for Decoration" and "The Professional Touch". These chapters cover repairs of pieces, sanding, stripping, glazes and how to tint glazes, plaster, varnishes, stains, etc. and the best way to apply them for a professional finish.
Just not enough
I agree with other reviewers that this book has some great projects, some of which I plan to do, and it gave me some very good ideas. The problem for me is too few pictures and, in some cases, incomplete instructions.
Better books on the market than this one.
This book looks good at first glance, but then it falls apart. The nice colored pictures cannot compensate for the poor hints and guidelines in creating the same effects.Also, many of the finished projects were downright ugly.
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Subjects:  1. Decorating - General    2. Do-It-Yourself    3. Do-It-Yourself - General    4. Handicraft    5. Home Improvement / Construction    6. House & Home    7. House furnishings    8. Interior decoration    9. Interior design    10. Reference    11. Home furnishing & decoration    12. House & Home / Do-It-Yourself   

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The only book on making automata with actual plans
This book features fourteen projects. Each project has a bit of text, a photo, and many nice vector illustrations detailing the project's construction. The artist's work is colorful, assorted, and playful. People determined to build an automaton are sure to find a project in this book that speaks to them.
A Beautiful Book
This is the best of the mechanical/whirligig books I've run across. Beautiful color photographs and detailed illustrations of Frost's very strange toys including dancing lumberjacks, boxing angels and demons, machine-gunning whirligigs, and the wonderfully painted 'houses' that hold the hand-cranks that give life to these creatures. An excellent resource for toy and wood-working ideas. ... Read more

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It's about time!
It's about time this book was written.I found it insightful and thoughtfully written.Donald Clark has presented the world of marketing and selling your craft to the novice in a way that makes sense of it all. From the wonderfully asthetically pleasing layout to the expert perspectives this book was a joy to read.The advice given is advice that I will take to heart as I enter the business of making art. Hopefully, I will be as successful as the artists that are fortunate enough to be represented by Donald Clark. This book is a must for anyone who has thoughts of entering this world and looking for truth of how to make that happen.

The BEST fine craft business bok out there
I've read a number of art/craft business books over the years and this is the book I've been missing.The most specifically helpful section is the chapter on pricing.This book provides a step by step formula for setting your prices based on your materials, labor, and overhead and marketing costs.I have not read another book that gave such information, and as a result, setting my prices has always been a bit of a guessing game.If you want to earn money from your fine crafts, read this book!

Donald Clark's Making a Living in Crafts is a book long over due.
Clark's stance is clear, "The sale of the work of art completes the creative process."He is reassuring; you will not be a "starving artist."He teaches you how to make your business legal, how to price your work, how to get your work in shops, galleries, and on the show circuit.He shares insight on how to participate in the online marketplace, how to write a business plan, how to develop positive relationships with customers and collectors, how to make a lasting impression with excellent photography, and how to write the dreaded artist statement.He provides you practical templates that help you pencil out your marketing costs inventory, overhead costs inventory, pricing sheet, and simple cost worksheet.He inserts essays and interviews with top gallery owners, shopkeepers, collectors, artists, and crafts persons, so you can gain valuable insights on where your work is suited.This book is a welcomed addition as a textbook in any college course where students want to eventually sell their crafts, arts, and designs.For those of you who are self-taught, working on weekends and vacations, making one-of-a-kind objects or production work, this book will guide you through a clear curriculum on how to complete the creative cycle by selling your work. For those of you who are "old hands" in the making of art and craft, this book will fill in gaps you were unaware existed in your knowledge.For those of you who doubt Donald Clark's stance, the final chapters on nurturing your creativity will provide practical ways to remain creative.
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Subjects:  1. Arts And Crafts    2. Career Development    3. Careers - General    4. Crafts & Hobbies    5. Crafts / Hobbies    6. Handicraft    7. Hobbies/Crafts    8. Reference    9. Vocational guidance    10. Crafts & Hobbies / Reference    11. STUDY AIDS - Advanced Placement   

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Excellent livre (contenu et qualité)
Livraison dans un excellent d�lai, moins d'une semaine. La qualit� du volume est excellente, presque neuf.

answer to happeeface
This book was wonderful. It came highly recommended. The prompt service on the purchase of this used book was great.

This is a extraordinary book
Like I said this is a good book and am quite impressed with some of the crafts and projects in this book!!!!!! ... Read more

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A work of art!
There have been other fine books that show and describe bamboo in Japan, both plants and craft, but no other book has so effectively shown how this remarkable plant has shaped a culture in all of its aspects, from the roots of its language, to its cuisine, its art, and its commerce---from the most mundane tools of daily life to the most sublime aspect of art and spirit. Beautifully designed, the book itself is a work of art, with text and photographs woven together in such a way that one finds that one has not simply read a book about a topic, but has become a part of that experience. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

A magnificent book!
BAMBOO IN JAPAN is one of the most exciting and beautiful books I've read in years.During her many years of researching in Japan, Bess discovered that bamboo contributes to every aspect of Japanese life: from architecture to religion, from household goods to children's toys.Bamboo is made into fans, baskets, kites, fences, tea ceremony whisks and scoops; into rakes, blinds, lanterns, spoons, dolls, umbrellas, fish rods, swords, and even into musical instruments such as the eerie, reedy shakuhachi.The book is filled with fascinating facts and anecdotes. Ancient documents chronicle the use of a small bamboo knife that was thought to have magical powers, and so was used to cut the umbilical cord after birth.In the 17th century an ordinance mandated that peasants plant bamboo in order to use the leaves for fuel.Did you know that some varieties of bamboo grow so quickly that one can actually watch them grow?Or that the adult plant is strong enough to support traditional scaffolding tens of stories high, yet delicate enough to be cut into fibers hardly wider than a hair?A Japanese folktale describes a bamboo cutter's discovery of a beautiful miniature princess in a bamboo shoot.Additionally, Bess includes resources for observation and research in Japan and in the US.An internationally known textile and basket craftsperson, Bess has produced a book so vibrant and colorful, it will grow and grow sky high in your imagination.

a treasure
What a pleasure to see the soul of bamboo portrayed with such insight! Many examples of bamboo in use, a feast for the eyes. This book is a treasure of bamboo knowledge. ... Read more

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WONDERFULINSTRUSTIONS! BEAUTIFUL PICTURES!
I would have liked to give this book a 10 STAR rating. I bought this book not just for the purses BUT for the clear and very easy to follow directions for the weaving! I used the stitches I learned in this book for other projets. I am a visual learner and this book is better than more $$$$ books I bought just to learn the stitches. Color through out. I did not find any of the colors muted as another stated.
Do not choose if you are looking to make high fashion bags
I totally disliked this book...if you want to make craft show type stuff then perhaps this is a good choice but I came lloking for info on how to make high fashion high quality beaded handbags likened to some of todays top designers and thisbag did not even stracth the surface of what I needed.I would only suggest this book for those looking to make little trinkets in thier spare time certainly not for resale.

Concentrates on beaded purses
Start at the cover of this book that features five necklaces.You'll say, "Wow!How can I make these gorgeous little necklace purses?"Author Enid Taylor shows you how.Bead stitching is pretty much the same from book to book, offering the same techniques shown here: brick, square, peyote, and netting stitches.This book is special because Enid shows you how those stitches combine to make a fabulous purse.Enid, a home economics teacher for 24 years, started a craft studio in 1982, so there's lots of teaching experience behind her book.Although her craft studio's focus was on lacemaking, spinning, and needlework, her expertise in beading shines through.Not only are there many techniques shown for the body of the purses, but there are multiple ways shown to make the neckchains and fanciful decorative finishes.If your aim is to concentrate your efforts on amulet necklaces, this is the book for you! ... Read more

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Good resource if you are computer literate
This is a good reference for general information about using a computer to enhance or create art. The author mainly uses Adobe products, such as Photoshop and Illustrator for editing images and graphics. Before you will be able to create these projects, you have to be familiar with your software AND have software to create some of the effect (image editor, paint and graphics program). If you are looking for a book that specifically tells you how to do these things, that will not be found here. You have to be "computer-literate" and software-literate to get the most from this book.
starting point for computer crafts
Ashford knows the art of computer craftmaking and provides the reader with very good starting points for crafts that intertwine computer and manual art. Regarding hardware/software she clearly favors Mac/Adobe, so her recommendations reflect this.In spite of this slant, she gives some helpful overviews of the technological side of various formats, graphic standards, etc. Restoring modesty to the artist's tool enriches everyone
The potential of the computer in craft has been seriously damaged by the excitement computers have generated.A parallel can be found when the Russian novelist Tolstoy was given a dictaphone to help speed up his writing.After a few weeks he threw it out the window.His neighbor asked if it didn't work.Tolstoy's reply was "It worked fine, but I got so excited using it I couldn't write." For almost two decades a generation of designers have succumbed to the excitement and hype of the computer without significantly adding any real content or substance to their work under the digitized banner.It is time for that to change, and Janet Ashford is a winning harbinger of that change.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Books: General    2. Computer Graphics - Design    3. Computer Graphics - General    4. Computer art    5. Computer drawing    6. Computers    7. Computers - Desktop Publishing    8. Data Transmission Systems - General    9. Data processing    10. Digital Image Processing    11. Folk & Outsider Art    12. Handicraft    13. Microcomputer Graphics    14. Reference    15. Applications of Computing    16. Computer graphics software    17. Computers / Computer Graphics / Design    18. The Arts: General Issues   

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where is my book?
This book was to be delivered by the 30th of August.It is now the 7th of Sept, and still no book.One star is generous, and predicated on the hope the book is still to come. ... Read more

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Outstanding source book
more categories than the human mind can imagine! Tons of addresses and web sites to contact. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Canada    2. Crafts & Hobbies    3. Directories    4. Equipment and supplies    5. Handicraft    6. Hobbies/Crafts    7. Reference    8. United States    9. Architecture