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Potted Histories | |||
| An Artistic Voyage through Plant Exploration | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Sandra Knapp | ||||
| Scriptum 2003 336 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1902686284 280x260mm | ||||
| Published Price £45.00 | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| Botanical art for Sandra Knapp, 'has an unbreakable link with exploration, not just exploration of places unknown, but of morphology: what plants look like in all their amazing detail and variety'. In this book she examines that link, through the magnificent collections of horticultural art in the Natural History Museum, and in essays on the discoveries and subsequent histories of 20 groups of plants, among them arums, water lilies, cacti and succulents, magnolias, roses, conifers and poppies. | ||||
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Medina Kitchen | |||
| Home Cooking from North Africa | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Fiona Dunlop | ||||
| Mitchell Beazley 2007 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1845332652 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Fiona Dunlop's long fascination with North Africa has taken her on a tour around Morocco, Tunisia and Libya to visit eight outstanding home chefs, shop and cook with them and learn their favourite recipes and culinary tricks. Exotic treats like Fozia Shwek's Aubergine Caviar and Kenza Samih's Sweet Pigeon Pie demonstrate a new movement in North African cuisine, with traditional tagines and soups being refined and adapted and new dishes created from the region's traditional and abundant spices, dried fruits and fresh herbs. | ||||
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The Lure of Gold | |||
| An Artistic and Cultural History | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Hans-Gert Bachmann | ||||
| Abbeville 2006 280 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0789209004 310x260mm | ||||
| Published Price £42.00 | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| From the dazzling treasures of the tombs of ancient Egypt to the refined style of later 20th century design, the allure of gold, with its scarcity, its unfailing aesthetic brilliance and its unequalled malleability, has played a significant part in mankind's cultural, social, economic and artistic history. Each chapter in this generously illustrated study is devoted to a particular epoch, explaining where people of that time found gold, how they mined, refined and worked it, and the part it played in shaping their society. | ||||
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English Pottery | |||
| Crafts & Hobbies | ||||
| Julia E Poole | ||||
| Cambridge University Press 1995 140 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0521475201 | ||||
| Published Price £17.99 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks are beautifully designed and illustrated introductions to fine art subjects, and this volume draws on examples from the Museum's own extensive collection to describe English pottery made between the late 13th and late 20th centuries. The 64 pieces, representing all the main types of earthenware and stoneware, are each shown in a full-page colour photograph with an authoritative commentary and notes on further reading. Plus a general introduction and glossary. | ||||
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Eating India | |||
| Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Chitrita Banerji | ||||
| Bloomsbury 2008 268 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0747581371 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| The diversity of authentic Indian cuisine is the result of generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests, from Persians and Mongols to Arabs and Europeans, each of whom brought innovative ways to manipulate the country's rich native spices. Chitrita Banerji has toured India visiting traditional weddings, tiffin rooms and city markets, and this account relates her discoveries about how India's turbulent history has shaped both its people and its cuisine. | ||||
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Cook Espana, Drink Espana | |||
| A Culinary Journey around the Food and Drink of Spain | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| John Radford; Mario Sandoval | ||||
| Mitchell Beazley 2007 192 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1845332458 250x200mm | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Celebrated young Spanish chef Mario Sandoval and wine expert John Radford present a gastronomic tour of the food and wine of each of Spain's 17 provinces. A cultural background to each province precedes a number of speciality recipes - such as Castilla-La Mancha's Partridge with Glazed Ceps and Plums and the Catalan Pan-Toasted Black Rice Socarrat with Baby Octopus - along with a survey of the region's wines. | ||||
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Villa Gardens of the Mediterranean | |||
| From the Archives of Country Life | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Kathryn Bradley-Hole | ||||
| Aurum 2006 208 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 184513124X 305x250mm | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Sale Price £9.99 | |||
| Despite its essential Britishness, Country Life has for over a century featured exceptional gardens of Continental Europe. The Ottoman splendour of Mustapha Superieur, Edith Wharton's garden at Hyeres, the Villa Cypris on Cap Martin, the garden created by William Walton on Ischia in the Bay of Naples... This impressive book draws on the magazine's archives to present photographic portraits, with commentary by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, of over 30 gardens in Algeria, France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. | ||||
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The Stanley Book of Woodwork | |||
| Tools. Techniques. Projects | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Mark Finney | ||||
| Batsford 2006 160 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0713490039 250x250mm | ||||
| Published Price £15.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Step-by-step, this introduction to woodworking shows how raw timber can be transformed into beautiful and functional furniture. From choosing the right tools, it goes on to explain a range of techniques including planing, cutting joints, gluing and finishing. Finally a series of six projects - a work bench, bookcase, child's desk, chest, bedside cabinet and a small table - with detailed, well illustrated instructions, enables the lessons learned to be put into practice. | ||||
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The Art of the Pen | |||
| Calligraphy from the Court of the Emperor Rudolf II | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Lee Hendrix; Thea Vignau-Wilberg | ||||
| Thames & Hudson 2003 64 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0500511276 | ||||
| Published Price £7.95 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Produced for the court of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II around 1561, the Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta is a 'Model Book of Calligraphy', demonstrating contemporary and historical scripts. The 46 pages reproduced here show the creativity and brilliance of its creators: miniature paintings of fruit, flowers, insects and other natural minutiae complement texts, some executed in mirror writing and micrography, intended as much for virtuosic display as for practical use. | ||||
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Britannia and Muscovy | |||
| English Silver at the Court of the Tsars | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Olga Dmitrieva; Natalya Abramova (Edited by) | ||||
| Yale University Press 2006 304 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0300116780 254x236mm | ||||
| Published Price £50.00 | Sale Price £12.99 | |||
| The Moscow Kremlin Museums house some of the world's finest surviving English silver ofg the 16th and 17th centuries, including diplomatic and traders' gifts that exemplify Anglo-Russian relations in that period. As well as impressive items of silverware from the collections, this catalogue includes examples of English firearms, diplomatic gifts and a variety of Russian artifacts. Several essays, on topics including diplomacy at the Court of the Tsars and the history of the Kremlin, set the objects in historical context. | ||||
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Glass Throughout Time | |||
| History and Technique of Glassmaking from the Ancient World to the Present | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Rosa Barovier Mentasti; Rosanna Mollo; Patrizia Framarin (Edited by) | ||||
| Skira 2003 285 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 8884913454 281x236mm | ||||
| Published Price £40.00 | Sale Price £11.99 | |||
| Looking at ten 'rooms' of glass - Nature, Water, Play, Geometry, the Body, the Orient, the Sacred, the Fantastic, the Everyday and the Fragment - this catalogue illustrates the impressive range of styles that can be produced in the medium, from ancient glassware dating back to the 1st century AD to modern hand-cut and wheel-engraved pieces. The catalogue is accompanied by essays on glass production in the ancient world, techniques and materials, and glassmakers from the Renaissance to the present day. | ||||
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Pots in the Kitchen | |||
| Crafts & Hobbies | ||||
| Josie Walter | ||||
| Crowood 2002 176 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1861265085 288x225mm | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Sale Price £3.99 | |||
| After a brief historical survey of cooking pots since Roman times, Josie Walter traces the development of handmade cooking pots in Britain from the beginning of the 20th century, paying particular attention to the contributions of potters Bernard Leach and Michael Cardew. She goes on to survey contemporary work by potters from various countries, particularly France, with chapters on different types of pots - casseroles, baking dishes, pie funnels, moulds etc - and technical information on clays, slips and glazes. | ||||
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Drawn Thread Embroidery | |||
| Crafts & Hobbies | ||||
| Moyra McNeill | ||||
| Batsford 2005 144 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0713489375 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Sale Price £2.99 | |||
| Drawn thread is a form of decorative embroidery, traditionally worked on fine linen, that achieves its effect by patterns of holes created by withdrawing threads from the fabric. A comprehensive, illustrated guide to this centuries-old style of needlework, Moyra McNeill's book first describes materials and basic techniques before explaining in detail the various types of traditional drawn thread work, including Hedebo, needleweaving, reticella and Herdanger and some experimental and machine techniques. Monochrome illustrations. | ||||
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Violets | |||
| The History and Cultivation of Scented Violets | Crafts & Hobbies | |||
| Roy E Coombs | ||||
| Batsford 2003 144 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 071348831X | ||||
| Published Price £19.99 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| Beginning with a history of violet cultivation, this second, updated edition of a classic work covers all four groups of violets - scented single (hardy), scented double (hardy), scented semi-double (hardy) and Parma violets (tender). There are also chapters on some viola species, hybridization, cultivation and early violet nurseries and enthusiasts. With over 60 colour photographs and watercolour paintings by Yvonne Matthews. Roy Coombs is a former president of the International Violet Association. | ||||
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The Garden in Autumn | |||
| Crafts & Hobbies | ||||
| Ethne Clarke | ||||
| David & Charles 2004 168 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0715307010 258x225mm | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Sale Price £4.99 | |||
| In autumn, a well planned garden can be full of interest, with fiery leaf colour, structural seed heads, tawny grasses and ripe fruits taking centre stage. In this celebration of autumn flowers, fruits and foliage, Ethne Clarke first describes seasonal tasks - harvesting fruits and drying herbs as well as digging - before discussing the planting and maintenance of borders and structural features such as hedges and topiary. The book ends with a selection of plants for autumn. Photography by Jonathan Buckley. | ||||
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