Country living handmade country
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Country living handmade country
Hearst Books, c1997
1st ed
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Country living (New York, N.Y.)
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Includes index
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Handmade Country celebrates the wonderful handicrafts of that past and places them firmly in the present by showing you how to use traditional skills and materials to re-create them - learn to stencil a wall or a stairway, hook a rug, and decoupage a tray or a tabletop. And it offers original ideas for designing and decorating with handmade crafts, both new and old - frame a collage or display a vintage quilt to add a handmade touch to your rooms. In its pages, Handmade Country explores all the elements at our disposal: paper and the personal memories with which we entrust it; paint and the many moods it can convey; fabric, with its ability to reshape whole rooms; and materials culled from nature that can beautify our homes. The final chapter is a lesson in looking at treasures from the past in a new light and adapting them to more modern uses - an antique water filter becomes a base for a table, for example; a shoemaker's workbench now serves as shelving for tableware.
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