For the first time in her distinguished career, knitwear and crochet designer Erika Knight has moved into an entirely new area of craft. In Beads & Buttons, she applies her unique flair for colour, texture and design to beading, presenting a collection of 25 must-have jewellery projects.The book is divided into three themes, Natural, Playful and Vintage. Using driftwood, pebbles and shells, hemp twine or leather thonging, the Naturals projects reflect a modern mood within accessories for relaxed, easy-wear simplicity from a simple stone pendant on brightly coloured suede to a beaded cuff bracelet on wire and a pearl and wooden bead cluster necklace.
Tennessee Williams's second Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' confronts homosexuality, father-and-son relationships, greed, manipulation, aging, and death. It is considered today with 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'The Glass Menagerie' as among his finest works for the stage. In this new offering in the Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations series, Harold Bloom offers his critical eye to the characters of Brick, Big Daddy, and the deceptive Maggie the Cat, presented here with a bibliography, a chronology of Williams's life, and a handy index.
A unique and fascinating introduction to the amazing variety of inventions, both ancient and modern: from simple machines such as wheels, gears, pulleys, and levers, Invention charts the developments of weights and measures, writing utensils, early watches, and navigation aids. Finally, there are the inventions that have revolutionized the modern era from telephones and radios to television and plastics. See what Galileo's telescope looked like, and the earliest photographs ever taken. Learn how the first records were made and how surgical operations were performed in the 19th century. Discover what makes a clock tick, why a battery produces electricity, and much, much more.
Why Pi?, the entertaining follow-up to the popular Go Figure!, presents even more mind-bending ways to think about numbers. This time, author Johnny Ball focuses on how people have used numbers to measure things through the ages, from the ways the ancient Egyptians measured the pyramids to how modern scientists measure time and space. Why Pi? includes games, puzzles, brainteasers, and fun facts, plus answer key.
The designs in this book are used in stocks knitted by turkish women. Some of the patterns are of ancient origin while a few are of more recent development. Anyone interested in the preservation of traditional art in a modern setting will find this book stimulating and challenging.
