CraftSpring2026

58 | MIXED MEDIA, MODEL BUILDING, MOSAICS The Art of Kintsugi: Learning the Jap- anese Craft of Beautiful Repair • Alex- andra Kitty • This is the only comprehensive step-by-step guide in English to kintsugi— the ancient Japanese art form of "jw part of an item’s beauty. Readers learn the art through a range of projects, both traditional and modern. • 8" × 8" (203 × 203 mm) • 85 images • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-6054-1 • HC • $27.99 / £25.99 / 38.99 CAD Dream Catchers: Homemade Mobiles, Wall Hangings, and Jewelry • Charline Fabregues • Dream catchers have become an essential item in decoration, but they remain highly symbolic. With this book, you can create 16 dream catchers, mobiles, wall hangings, and jewelry from materials such as lace, ribbons, beads, origami-made butterflies, leather feathers, pendants, and driftwood. • 9" × 9" (229 × 229 mm) • 294 color images • 80 pp • 978-0-7643- 5738-1 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Explorations with Collage!: Merging Photo- graphs, Paper, and Fiber • Wen Redmond • A digital collage technique layers together virtual im- ages into a new piece of art, ready for mixed-media and collage makers to use as an eye-opening ele- ment. Renowned artist and teacher Wen Redmond shares 42 of her main techniques (and many vari- ations) with step-by-step photos and instructions. Plus, hundreds of images of her own works demon- strate options. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 648 color images • 208 pp • 978-0-7643-6762-5 • PB • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Gel Plate Printing for Mixed-Media Art: Tak- ing Your Visual Storytelling to a New Level • Robyn McClendon • Add a simple gel plate to your mixed-media tools to elevate your work! If you fo- cus on mixed-media art, collage, or art journaling, this is for you: Acclaimed artist Robyn McClendon offers more than 20 specific techniques and guides you in combining them for unlimited ways to ex- press your creativity. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 2 mylar stencils & over 350 color images • 160 pp • 978-0-7643-6694-9 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Mixed-Media Adventures with Kristy Rice: A Noncoloring Book • Kristy Rice, Amy Tangerine • A wonderful new twist to the standard coloring book: watercolor art is waiting for you to add the "lines". • 8" × 10" (203 × 254 mm) • 74 color images, including bookmarks and wish cards • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-6450-1 • PB • $21.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD The Pigment Trail: Inspiration from the Col- ors, Textures, and People of India • Debra Luker • Part travelogue and part artistic insight, this book is a visual adventure that transports the reader to India's creative spirit. Celebrate the India of everything handmade and its respect for tradi- tional crafts. • 8" × 10.25" (203 × 260 mm) • 300 color images • 208 pp • 978-0-7643-6756-4 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD The Stencil Graffiti Manual • Christian Guémy AKA C215 • This info-packed manual walks through the creative possibilities of stencil graffiti and street art, with detailed how-tos, hundreds of photos, and over a dozen interviews with top sten- cil artists around the world. Includes three ready- to-use stencils. • 7" × 9" (178 × 229 mm) • 246 color and b/w images • 150 pp • 978-0-7643- 6327-6 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Wall Art: 14 Stunning Feature Wall Projects to Transform Your Home • Patricia Moffett, Clare Baggaley • Opens a new surface to crafters. Apply your creativity large scale, using your favorite mediums or a new one, to give your space big im- pact. These 14 projects, some easy and some more challenging, use a wildly creative range of tech- niques including manipulated paper, found-object repurposing, laser cutting, casting, stickers, origa- mi, and even cardboard taxidermy. • 8.5" × 10" (216 × 254 mm) • 300 color photos • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-6210-1 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Whimsical Wire: 26 Delightful Projects to Create • Ingrid Moras • Create deco- rative art with floral wire. Detailed photo- graphs and easy-to-follow diagrams show you how to make 26 wire designs and airy sculptures with easy-to-find floral wire and simple techniques. • 8.5" × 8.5" (216 × 216 mm) • 50+ color photos and illustra- tions • 80 pp • 978-0-7643-6322-1 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Building Architectural Models • Guy & Patricia DeMarco • A primer for the design, construction, and presentation of the three-dimensional model from conceptual drawings. The process begins with the construction of a cube and tetrahedron, and moves on to encompass manufactured modules, a commercial building, a single story house, and a city rowhouse. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 64 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-1071-3 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Fundamentals of Model Boat Building: The Hull • John Into • Learn the skills necessary to successfully create an accurate model boat from scratch, including structural elements, paper model renderings, measuring hull features, and creating mechanical drawings. The detailed text guides readers to make a model Chesapeake Bay “Dead- rise” workboat. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 182 color photos, 43 b/w drawings • 160 pp • 978-0-7643-3105-3 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Model Boat Building: The Lobster Boat • Steve Rogers • Using the lines of boats built be- fore 1940 by Alvin Beal, Steve takes the modeler step-by-step through the process of building an authentic scale model lobster boat. In more than 250 color photographs, he begins with the sculpt- ing of the builder’s model, upon which are laid the ribs and hull of the boat, and continues through the building of accessories and the painting of the boat. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 250+ col- or photos • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-642-3 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Model Boat Building: The Spritsail Skiff • Steve Rogers • With beautiful color photographs, helpful drawings, and a wealth of knowledge that comes from years of craftsmanship, Steve Rogers leads the reader through the building of a model of the North Carolina spritsail skiff. The model is in one-inch scale and is built in much the same way as the actual boat was. Clear step-by-step di- rections are given for everything from the jigs to the sails. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 250+ color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-534-1 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Model Boat Building: The Skipjack • Steve Rogers • Steve Rogers offers a guide for building a model skipjack, leading the craftsperson step-by- step through the process. The result is a beautiful boat in full sail. The model is in 1?2" scale, based on a skipjack that is 45 feet on deck with a 15 foot beam. Drawings, patterns, jigs, and accessories are all detailed. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 390 color photos, drawings, designs • 96 pp • 978-0- 88740-937-0 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Model Boat Building: The Menhaden Steam- er • Steve Rogers • A step-by-step guide to build- ing a classic working boat: the menhaden steamer. Modeler Steve Rogers guides the reader through the complete process—hull master to rigging— for building a 1?2-inch scale, 56-inch model of this wonderful fishing boat. The result will be a work of art • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 100 color illustrations & detailed plans • 64 pp • 978-0- 7643-1070-6 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Model Boat Building Made Simple • Steve Rogers • Using drawings and step-by-step color photographs and captions, the process of building a model boat is easily understood and followed. The materials needed can be bought at hobby shops, lumber yards, and hardware stores. The tools are basic. Even the novice model builder can complete a fine model—a simple, yet elegant skiff—incorporating many of the original construc- tion techniques. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • Color photos and drawings • 64 pp • 978-0- 88740-388-0 • PB • $15.99 / £14.99 / 22.99 CAD Ship Model Building • Gene Johnson • The most complete instructions for model shipbuild- ing. Features a typical whaling vessel, river and harbor ferryboats, working plans for a clipper ship, Gloucester fisherman, harbor tugboat, dragger, and “ironclads” Monitor and Merrimac. More than 1,000 diagrams. The book is unusual in its attention to minute and authentic detail, supplying more than a thousand diagrams. • 6" × 9" (152 × 229 mm) • 17 b/w photos, 22 illustrations, 6 plans, & 157 plates of drawings • 320 pp • 978-0- 87033-369-9 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Ships in Bottles • Guy DeMarco • Revised and expanded 2nd edition. Five projects explained clearly, step-by-step through drawings and black- and-white and color photographs. Woven into the instructions is historical background that gives the ships and bottles greater interest and authenticity. The modeler is led slowly through the steps to cre- ate this legendary art form. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 38 b/w photos, 16 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-0999-1 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD A Beginner's Guide to Mosaics: Four Deco- rative Projects • Alexandra Carron • From the basics of mosaic materials to the most sophisticat- ed techniques, step by step you will produce four original and elegant objects (a vase, colorful table, springtime mirror, and decorative tiles) assisted by your own crafting coach. Beginner’s how-to book with techniques for cutting, patterning, grouting, and finishing. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 196 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-4096-3 • HC • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Fused Glass Mosaics: Master Class Tech- niques with Martin Cheek • Martin Cheek • A practical mental tool kit to assist you in making your own mosaics. Over 300 color images and an engaging text will inspire ideas of color, back- ground, and style. Make a subtle mosaic by using analogous colors or a piece inspired by your favor- ite artist. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 345 b/w & color images • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-3933-2 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Mastering Mosaics: 19 Artists, 19 Projects • Rayna Clark • Learn proven techniques and suc- cessful methods of creating mosaic art from 19 different artists. Patient professionals give informa- tive, specific, and even moving accounts of their personal mosaic strategies. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 534 color photos & drawings • 192 pp • 978-0-7643-4362-9 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD MODEL BUILDING MOSAICS