CraftWinter2024

Doll making | 43 Soap Carving for Children of All Ages. Howard K. Suzuki. Bar soap provides a wonderful carving medium for children or adults to learn and teach basic carving techniques. Starting with directions for making safe and simple wooden carving tools, basic soap-carving techniques are shown with step-by-step color photos. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) •195 color photos •48pp. •978-0-7643-0859-8 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD Victorian Doll House. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. It is easily assembled and measures 13 1/3" tall, 6 3/4" × 9 1/2". Create your own beautiful color scheme for both its interior and exterior. Made of sturdy board, this doll- house folds flat back into its own box and can be used again and again. Grades 3 & up. • 12" x 9" x 1 3/4" (304 x 228mm) • 0 • 0 pp. • 978-0-7643-2956-2 • Box • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Zendoodle for Children. Gitta Edelmann. Children will love following a pair of white mice named Milli and Matti as they search for colorful patterns to wear to the Festival of the Animals. The mice take turns drawing the patterns on each other and invite readers to draw along in the book with a fineliner pen • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 80 color illustrations • 80 pp. • 978-0-7643-5413-7 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / 17.99 CAD The Art of the Contemporary Doll. San- dra Korinchak. More than 220 color photos, together with descriptions of over fifty doll- makers’ richly varied works and techniques, make up this fascinating overview of the state of the dollmaking art today • 11"x81/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 222 color photos • 128 pp. • 978- 0-7643-4860-0 •HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD DOLL MAKING Country Dollmaking. Tom & Nancy Wolfe. A step-by-step guide to making unique dolls in the country tradition. Tom gives clear instructions for carving and painting the head, hands, and feet. Nancy then shows the reader everything from laying out and cutting the pattern to sewing, assembling, and dressing the doll • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 23 color photos, 300+b/wphotos • 136 pp. • 978-0- 88740-129-9 • PB • $14.95 / £13.99 / 19.95 CAD Lifelike Artist Dolls. How-To and Inspi- ration from Lynn Cartwright’s Studio. Lynn Cartwright. Learn one-of-a-kind polymer clay doll making tips from an award-winning expert! Studio insider tips and a wealth of detailed doll photos make this a valuable resource for doll collectors, makers, and en- thusiasts. Cartwright explains her studio process and guides makers step-by-step through key parts of the process, from armatures to facial modeling • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 160 color & b/w images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-5477-9 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Making Colorful Corn Shuck Dolls. Anne Freels. This book contains over 200 full color illustrations and step-by-step instructions on how to make two different styles of a traditional corn shuck doll with Anne Freel’s signature colorful style. Readers also receive lots of practical advice, as well as suggestions on how to personalize the dolls so the reader’s own creativity shines through • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) •212 color photos •80pp. •978-0-7643-3935-6 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / 23.99 CAD Whimsical Elegance: The Costumed Cat Dolls of Helen Cohen. Helen Cohen. A self-taught doll artist, Helen Cohen presents a true cat fancy! For over forty years Helen made and sold numerous dolls, many during her twenty-two-year ownership of The Doll Lady, a now-closed shop in Pennsylvania. Artfully photographed by David Gehosky, Whimsical Elegance features 31 fashion dolls with cat faces, magnificently attired in historical costuming spanning 400 years • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 151 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-4099-4 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Floral Doodling Handbook Julie Adore. This fun, simple little book introduces you to floral doodling through patterns and motifs to keep your imagination flowing. • 6" x 81/4" (152 x 209mm) •240+color and b/wimages•128pp.•978-0-7643-6183-8•PB•$22.99 / £20.99 / 31.99 CAD DRAWING Sketchbook Traveler: Hudson Valley. James Lancel McElhinney. This specially-bound journal is the perfect travel companion for drawing, paint- ing, and journal keeping. It guides readers toward more mindful engagement with the world around them, deepening knowledge and enriching per- sonal experience in ways that make every day an adventure. Includes info about the region’s his- tory—and the artists who have traveled there before you! • 5 1/2" x 7" (139 x 177 mm) • 28 color drawings • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-6042-8 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD Soap Carving Ocean and Coral Reef Creatures. Dr. Howard K. Suzuki. Over 270 color photos and 53 patterns show how to carve twelve sea creatures, including the clownfish, starfish, octopus, seahorse, penguin, orca, sperm whale, sea otter, manatee, queen angelfish, sea lion, and beluga. Carvers will produce soap carvings in low and high relief and from fused raw material. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) •273color&53b/wimages•64pp. •978-0-7643- 2754-4 • PB • $12.95 / £11.99 / 17.95 CAD How to Render Eye-Catching Textures with COPIC Markers. Yasaiko Midorihana. From basic techniques to entire color sample sheets, this book provides step-by-step visual instructions for rendering textures for a variety of materials, frommetals to bricks. Drawings introduced in this book to help you learn are powerful, and realistically rendered. • 7"x10" (177 x 254mm) • 1,100 color images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643- 5611-7 • PB • $27.99 / £25.99 / 38.99 CAD How to Render Attractive Characters with COP- IC Markers. Yasaiko Midorihana. Published in coop- eration with COPIC, this visual learning experience helps manga artists of every level. Learn gradation and shad- ing; using white ink; color order; how to draw key elements like eyes, lips, and patterned items; how to create heavi- ness; and more. The book’s genius approach? It guides you through creating 7 professionally drawn character scenes. • 7 1/4" x 10 1/8" (183 x 258 mm) • 1,100 color images •160•978-0-7643-6420-4•PB•$29.99 / £27.99 / 42.99 CAD Sketchbook Traveler: Southwest James Lancel McElhinney. An inspiring guided-journal format allows novice and professional artists to explore and record picturesque regions of the US. • 5 1/2" x 7" (139 x 177 mm) • 30 color drawings • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-6325-2 • hardcover • $24.99 US / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD This series plants a long-term love of craft! Each book is by an established artist in the craft medium. Cut It!: 15 Fun Papercutting Projects for Kids. Patricia Moffett. Teaches kids how to enjoy the craft traditions of paper, by cutting “flat” into an imagination-rich new idea. Patricia Moffett offers her expertise in professional design and crafting to kids in a way that they love. • 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" (209 x 273 mm) •125 color photos •80pp. •978-0-7643-6066-4 • HC • $22.99 / £20.99 / 29.99 CAD Weave It!: 15 Fun Weaving Projects for Kids. Maria Sigma. Featuring 15 projects with clear step-by- step instructions and colorful photography, teaches kids one of the oldest worldwide craft traditions. Using natural and recycled materials, Maria Sigma, a professional tapestry weaver, helps you share the joy of creating beautiful woven items with a new generation of young crafters. • 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" (209 x 273mm) • 125 color photos • 80 pp. • 978-0-7643-6065-7 • HC • $22.99 / £20.99 / 29.99 CAD Print It!: 15 Fun Printing Projects for Kids. Amy Appleyard. Featuring 15 projects with clear step-by-step instructions and colorful photography, Print It! teaches kids how to enjoy the craft traditions of printing. Amy Appleyard offers her expertise in professional design and crafting to kids in a way that they love, and helps you share the joy of creat- ing beautiful prints of all kinds with a new genera- tion of young crafters. • 8 1/4" x 10 3/4" (209 x 273 mm) •125 color photos •80 pp. •978-0-7643-6067-1 • HC • $22.99 / £20.99 / 29.99 CAD Pilgrim Village: A Thanksgiving Diorama. Kevin Ludgate. Enjoy hours of fun with your children coloring and cutting out these Thanksgiving char- acters and buildings. With easy, step-by-step in- structions, you will be transported to another time as you create your own village with both Native Americans and Pilgrims. A fun and educational activity that adults and children of all ages can enjoy. Early reader–ages 5–8 • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •16b/w images •32pp. •978-0-7643-3563- 1 • PB • $9.99 / £9.99 / 13.99 CAD Saltbox House: Color ’n Build Activity Playset. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. The house measures approximately 7 1/2" wide × 9 1/4" long × 8" high and sits on its own platform. Inside is a staircase and loft; outside is a fence, deck, 4 dogs, a doghouse, two chairs, and garden plants that are easy to personalize with your own decorations. Grades 3 & up. • 12" x 9" (304 x 228mm) •0•0pp. •978-0-7643-3443-6•Box•$14.99 / £13.99 / 19.99 CAD Shaker Village. Edmund V. Gillon Jr. Children and adults alike will enjoy this cut and assemble Shaker village. Six architectural models in H-O scale, print- ed on heavy stock in full color: a great round stone barn, four-story brick communal dwelling, schoolhouse, gambrel-roof church, laundry, and privy. The build- ings represent an agrarian village typical of Shaker communities in the early 19th century. Middle grades– ages 8–12. • 9" x 12" (228 x 304 mm) • 6 cut-out models • 46 pp. • 978-0-88740-077-3 • PB • $5.95 / £5.99 / 8.95 CAD OTHER CRAFTS | Sketchbook Traveler: New England. James Lancel McElhinney This small yet sturdy sketch- book-and-journal combination is the ideal travel companion—ready to toss into a backpack at a moment's notice. Through drawing, painting, and writing tips and inspiration, it invites curious creatives to experience the region. • 5 1/2" x 7" (140 x 178 mm) • 31 color drawings • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643- 6616-1 • hardcover • $24.99 / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD