Garden Crafts: A Practical Guide to Creating Handcrafted Features for Your Garden - Hardcover

Rudge, Geraldine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585740551 ISBN 13: 9781585740550

Verlag: The Lyons Press, 2000

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The editor of the British magazine Crafts provides instructions and information about the history of garden crafts using materials including metal and wire, glass, wood, willow and coppice wood, mosaic, and slate, pebble, and shell. Includes inspiring color photographs and step-by-step instructions for making a dozen artful creations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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This unique new book is a practical guide to creating handcrafted features for your garden. Every major craft is covered, including mosaic, metal, wire, glass, pebble, wood, coppice work, and willow. There are ideas for both practical and ornamental features, including decorative pebble paths, hanging glass panels, mosaic pools, wooden whirligigs, driftwood furniture, and willow sculptures.Garden Crafts describes the historical origins of each craft, the diversity of objects that can be made for the garden, materials - new and recycled - and where to get them, paints and other finishes, design considerations such as placement and associated planting, and tools and techniques.Each chapter concludes with two projects to create for your own garden, complete with a list of required materials, step-by-step construction techniques, and beautiful color photographs of the finished project in a garden setting. (9 3/4 X 11 1/4, 148 pages, color photos)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: The Lyons Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1585740551
• ISBN 13: 9781585740550
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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