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UPHOLSTERY, BOWL HEWING, BOX MAKING, DECOY & LURE MAKING, MAKING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, MAKING WOODEN TOYS | 75 The Little Upholstery Book: A Beginner's Guide to Artisan Upholstery • Shelly Miller Leer • This hands-on field guide features the fresh teaching style of expert Shelly Miller Leer, found- er of HomeRoom and Upholstery Club. Informa- tion-packed upholstery techniques and tips let you work with confidence. Step-by-step projects help you update and transform your first 5 pieces of furniture, using skills applicable to most furniture makeovers. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 264 color images • 144 pp • 978-0-7643-5742-8 • HC w/spiral • $26.99 / £24.99 / 37.99 CAD Marge's Custom Slipcovers: Easy to Make & Snug Fitting • Marge Jones • Marge Jones has mastered an alternative slip-covering technique to help people with all levels of sewing skills create their own snug-fitting custom slipcovers. They fit so well that the furniture looks brand new. Home furnishings of all shapes and sizes are restored in this indispensable manual, proving that almost all furniture can be custom slip-covered. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 394 color photos & diagrams • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-4171-7 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD More Custom Slipcovers: Easy to Make & Snug Fitting • Marge Jones • In this second volume, Marge Jones guides readers through every step necessary to create 20 more projects using her alternative slip-covering technique. Learn to cover various chairs, barstools, ottomans, throw pillows, boxed cushions, neck rolls, sectionals, and sleeper sofas. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • • 128 pp • 978-0-7643-4681-1 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Reupholstering at Home • Peter Nesovich • Step-by-step instructions with 350 clear and de- tailed photographs show how to rebuild that dilap- idated chair or sofa to look like new. Covered are the tools and materials you will need, and expert advice about which types of fabric are best for your needs. The author offers specific steps through text, photographs, and captions • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 350 b/w photos • 176 pp • 978-0- 88740-376-7 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD The Stuff: Upholstery, Fabric, Frame • Lorraine Osborne • Reuse/recycle to make wow-level chairs. Top upholsterer Lorraine Osborne guides you through her simple processes for salvaging and fabulously reno- vating old, unloved chairs. Using basic uphol- stery skills, learn how to transform a frame into something unique. • 9" × 9" (229 × 229 mm) • 600 color and b/w images • 176 pp • 978-0-7643-6303-0 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Upholstery: Basic & Traditional Techniques • Author Santiago Pons, Author Eva Pascual • With more than 650 color images, basic and traditional techniques are presented in step-by-step detail so you can do your own upholstery at home. Projects include various styles of furniture, from a dining room chair to a contemporary armchair, antique sofa, and a headboard. • 9" × 12" (229 × 305 mm) • 661 color images • 160 pp • 978-0-7643- 4855-6 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / 48.99 CAD Upholstery, Drapes, and Slipcovers: How-to Repair and Make Them Yourself • Dorothy Wagner • Professional methods for re-covering up- holstery, wonderful ideas for adding glamour to bed headboards, making custom drapes and curtains, and creating beautiful, custom-fitted slipcovers. In- cludes simple projects, like how to make pillows and pads, and tips on cleaning your household textiles. • 6" × 9" (152 × 229 mm) • 251 illustrations and 31 b/w photos • 248 pp • 978-0-7643-2745-2 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / 28.95 CAD Hewing Contemporary Bowls • Rip and Tammi Mann • Using only hand tools, the crafts person is led to produce a beautiful hand-hewn octagonal bowl. Step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions go from the blank to the oil finishing process. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 250 step-by-step color photos, gallery • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-710-9 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Sculpting Traditional Bowls • Rip and Tammi Mann • Hand hewing bowls is an ancient craft, but one which has been almost lost. This new book will help revive it. Using only hand tools, the bowl adze, a bowl shave, and a carver’s hook, Rip and Tammi lead the carver or sculptor through the steps of this satisfying art • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 180+ color photos • 48 pp • 978-0-88740-698-0 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD Home Woodworker Series: 14 Wooden Box- es You Can Make: 14 Wooden Boxes You Can Make • Jim Harrold • 14 projects will have both the seasoned and novice woodworker sharpening their tools. Make a box for showing off precious pieces of figured wood or your craftsmanship. Build gift boxes or whatever your motivation; the box designs here are both functional and decora- tive. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 260 images • 104 pp • 978-0-7643-4243-1 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD Making Wooden Boxes with Dale Power • Dale Power • Basic box making techniques with more than 260 color photographs, it illustrates the techniques, including mitered corners, rabbet, spline, and false spline joints. A gallery is provided • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • over 260 col- or photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-0848-2 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • over 260 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-0848-2 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD 10 Wire and Canvas Decoy Patterns for Carvers • Al Streetman • This book demonstrates step-by-step how to make one of these clever wire and canvas decoys, from constructing, to painting, to antiquing. Includes patterns for ten different breeds, a colorful gallery, helpful reference charts, and a lot of tried-and-true advice. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 90 color photos, 10 patterns • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-0978-6 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Basic Fishing Lure Carving • Greg Hays • In 220 detailed color photos, this book takes you through every step necessary to create a work- ing broke back fishing lure. Every tool needed is listed and every technique employed is described, including painting instructions. The book includes a pattern for the lure and illustrated instructions on assembling a box for lure storage. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 242 color photos • 64 pp • 978-0-7643-2505-2 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Blue Ribbon Pattern Series: Full Size Decorative Decoy Patterns • William Veasey • The book is designed to open flat while being used. Full size versions of William Veasey’s acclaimed waterfowl decoy patterns. Simple, work- able patterns will be useful to both the novice and the expert wood carver. • 17" × 11" (432 × 279 mm) • 33 patterns • 64 pp • 978-0-916838- 71-3 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 22.95 CAD Blue Ribbon Pattern Series: Hunt- ing Birds • William Veasey • The book is designed to open flat while being used. Drawn to scale, these detailed patterns will be indispensable to anyone who would like to carve lifelike hunting birds. Treat you or your favorite carver to this book of simple yet show-stopping patterns from the dean of American bird carving, William Veasey. • 17" × 11" (432 × 279 mm) • 28 patterns • 64 pp • 978-0-88740-022-3 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 22.95 CAD Blue Ribbon Pattern Series: Head Patterns • William Veasey • The heads of waterfowl drafted in intricate detail. Exact specifications regarding head thickness, eye color and size, and the fine points of the bill from top, bottom, and profile views. Four patterns are included for each bird: full sized, 1?2, 2?3, and 1?4 of the actual size • 12" x 9" (304 x 228 mm) • 36 patterns • 58 pp. • 978-0-916838-78-2 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD • 12" × 9" (305 × 229 mm) • 36 patterns • 58 pp • 978-0-916838-78-2 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 22.95 CAD Making Decoys: The Century Old Way • Grayson Chesser • A century ago, woodcarvers Na- than Cobb, Elmer Crowell, and Harry V. N. Shourds created bird decoys to help harvest food. Step-by- step instructions and numerous color and black- and-white photographs instruct readers to make gunning decoys. • 7" × 10" (178 × 254 mm) • 122 b/w & 90 color photos, 42 patterns • 172 pp • 978-0-87033-579-2 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / 36.95 CAD The Making of Hunting Decoys • William Vea- sey • This is the most important book ever written on how to make hunting decoys. You are taken step-by-step in great detail through the making of 18 different decoys, literally covering every aspect of the art. Fifteen award winning decoy artists ex- plain in their own words how they, and you, can create duck replicas. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 252 color photos/840 b/w photos/68 line drawings • 256 pp • 978-0-88740-073-5 • HC • $45.00 / £40.99 / 64.00 CAD Pickin’ Stick: Building a Stringed Instrument • John Ressler • The pickin’ stick is an easy-to-play, steel-stringed instrument with a diatonic scale, but it is also the perfect first instrument for aspiring lu- thiers. This illustrated woodworking guide will take you step-by-step as you build, string, tune, and play your own pickin’ stick. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 252 color photos • 72 pp • 978-0-7643- 3571-6 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD The Art and Craft of Whirligig Construction • Gabriel R. Zuckerman • More than 50 color photos, 80 patterns and mechanical drawings, and step-by-step instructions to create 12 original whirligig projects made from wood and/or metal, including imaginative, original designs that all will enjoy. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 53 color & 80 b/w photos • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-2359-1 • PB • $16.95 / £15.99 / 23.95 CAD Make Your Own Building Blocks and Build A City • Jim Covell • Through 109 color images and diagrams, illustrated step-by-step directions will have you making your own interlocking building blocks in no time. Learn to make wall, roof, win- dow, and door blocks. Then create your very own city! Chapters include tools and materials, meth- ods for making the blocks, and instructions. • 8.5" × 11" (216 × 279 mm) • 94 color images & 15 patterns • 96 pp • 978-0-7643-3966-0 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / 28.99 CAD BOWL HEWING BOX MAKING DECOY & LURE MAKING MAKING MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS MAKING WOODEN TOYS