Guide For Recreation Hand Crafts

This fascinating guide is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the hobbyist's bookshelf, containing a wealth of information on a variety of themes that is still useful and practical today. Intended to help further the knowledge and mastery of all hand crafts in this country, and extensively illustrated with text and full page drawings and photographs, this work forms a complete how-to guide to hand crafts. Contents Include: Painting on Textile; Block Printing on Textiles; Screen Printing on Textiles; Embossed, Soft, Tin Copper Work; Pyrography or Pyrogravure Work and Painting on Wood; The Art of Making Dolls and Marionettes and their Manipulation. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.