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Tapestry Weaving: A Comprehensive Study Guide
by Nancy HarveyIt's easy to learn tapestry weaving from start to finish with Nancy Harvey, one of America's best-known teachers of this exciting craft. Using the same clear step-by-step approach that makes her workshops so successful, Nancy leads you through building a simple frame loom, to mastering the basic techniques, to completing handsome pieces based on her designs. She even provides tips on how to prepare designs of your own. In this book, you will find: Beginning and intermediate samplers to help you learn the basics Hundreds of highlighted tips for weavers of all levels of experience Six practice designs for building skills Ideas inspiring your own designs, even if you "can't draw" Over 380 illustrations and photographs With hundreds of diagrams, tips, and tapestry designs, Tapestry Weaving: A Comprehensive Study Guide is essential reading for tapestry artists and handweavers alike.
Tapestry Weaving for Beginners and Beyond: Create Graphic Woven Art with this Guide to Painting with Yarn
by Kristin CarterLearn to weave your own stories and make personalised woven wall art with this guide to tapestry weaving. A collection of wonderful woven hangings for you to build your tapestry weaving skills. Learn all the techniques you'll need to create your own woven tapestries with a unique, personalised element. Author, Kristin Carter, explains all the skills required to make heirloom woven wall art with a very personal theme and how to recreate images of people, pets and places to create your own paintings with thread'. Learn all the basic techniques for tapestry weaving including a quick and easy way to make your own loom using an old photo frame, how to choose the right yarn, working with a template and how to start off a weave. Kristin then explores all the tapestry weaving techniques you will need to make your own stunning wall hangings. All of these techniques are accompanied by step-by-step photography so the instructions are super clear and suitable for absolute beginners. Learn how to do rya loops, weft facing weaving, soumak, pile weaving, diamond twill, overweaving, boubles, and an inverted rya fringe. There are 17 incredible projects for you to experiment and try out your new skills. Each of these can be adapted in order to create your own personalised wall hangings so you can make special heirloom woven art for friends and family. Kristin explains how to set up the loom, gives guidance for yarn amounts and what other tools and equipment are needed for each project. All of the projects are suitable for a an A3 sized loom so you only need one size to try out all of the variations. There are projects for abstract patterns, gradient weaving, blending compatible yarns, pet and people portraits with special techniques for recreating the texture of fur and hair, how to play with transparency in a weaving and creating texture using different yarns. Other techniques covered include cartooning (how to make a cartoon template from photographs); creating templates from your own sketches, how to create a marble effect and advice about colour theory and weaving.
Targeting Zero: Whole Life and Embodied Carbon Strategies for Design Professionals
by Simon SturgisEmbodied and Whole Life Carbon will change the way buildings are designed, yet carbon emissions associated with the construction and life of buildings are not yet wholly understood by the profession. Energy is assumed to be the province of services engineers, yet energy from materials is as big an issue. Architects have the opportunity to take the lead in redefining how buildings are designed to achieve a low carbon future.
Tarpon Springs
by Dolores KilgoTarpon Springs, the South's Mediterranean port city named for the abundant fish found off its coast, is hailed as the "Sponge Capital of the World." The oldest town in Pinellas County, Tarpon is located along the Anclote River where the river flows into the Gulf of Mexico. History in this coastal community dates back to the 1800s with the arrival of the first settlers. The advent of the railroad and the building of the Anclote Key Lighthouse brought many positive changes to the area; wealthy Northerners flocked here creating a winter haven while numerous fishing vessels plied city waters. Enterprising entrepreneurs boosted the city's economy and reputation with the harvesting of sponges. The Greek immigrants who came to the area to continue their traditional trade of sponge diving forever enriched the city's cultural makeup with their families and customs. Today, the progressive community continues to be a shining example of historic preservation and cultural variety. Images of America: Tarpon Springs celebrates the fascinating history of "the Venice of the South" and invites readers to experience this breathtaking locale through words and vintage photographs. Rare images, including scenes of the early sponge divers, businesses, residents, festivals, and celebrations, abound in this unique volume. Natives, visitors, and history buffs alike will delight in this visual tour of a picturesque and historically interesting community.
Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow in the 20th Century
by Sara Mascia Maryann MarshallLocated just miles north of New York City, the Hudson River villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow experienced the highs and lows of the 20th century. The villages experienced life in a grand scale from the 1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration to the 1970s village centennial and American bicentennial festivities. Photographs from the collection of the Historical Society, Inc., serving Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown bring the 20th century to life. Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow in the 20th Century includes images of local and world-renowned personalities, the changing business landscape, growth and consolidation of the public schools, participation of the local population in various business and social organizations, changes in fashion over the years, and the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge in the 1950s.
Tashlinesque: The Hollywood Comedies of Frank Tashlin (Wesleyan Film)
by Ethan de SeifeFrank Tashlin (1913–1972) was a supremely gifted satirist and visual stylist who made an indelible mark on 1950s Hollywood and American popular culture—first as a talented animator working on Looney Tunes cartoons, then as muse to film stars Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, and Jayne Mansfield. Yet his name is not especially well known today. Long regarded as an anomaly or curiosity, Tashlin is finally given his due in this career-spanning survey. Tashlinesque considers the director's films in the contexts of Hollywood censorship, animation history, and the development of the genre of comedy in American film, with particular emphasis on the sex, satire, and visual flair that comprised Tashlin's distinctive artistic and comedic style. Through close readings and pointed analyses of Tashlin's large and fascinating body of work, Ethan de Seife offers fresh insights into such classic films as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, The Girl Can't Help It, Artists and Models, The Disorderly Orderly, and Son of Paleface, as well as numerous Warner Bros. cartoons starring Porky Pig, among others. This is an important rediscovery of a highly unusual and truly hilarious American artist. Includes a complete filmography.
Task-Based Listening: What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know
by Steven BrownAre you looking for activities to use in your listening classes beyond asking students to answer comprehension questions? In Task-Based Listening, author Steven Brown defines task-based listening (TBL) and describes how to build a task-based listening program, how to create a task-based listening lesson, ways to activate vocabulary acquisition and improve grammatical knowledge, and the links between listening and pronunciation. In addition, he covers the ways that metacognitive strategies can assist students when listening, the advantages of extensive listening, and the benefits of interactive listening. Readers will find specific tips and suggestions for using these concepts in the classroom.
Task-Based Listening (Kindle Single): What Every ESL Teacher Needs to Know
by Steven Brown“I have tried to balance classroom advice with the reasons for the advice, grounded in research evidence. I think it’s important--if you want to grow as a teacher--that you have not only a bag of tricks, but a base from which to discuss your classroom with other teachers.” – Steven Brown This e-single is an introduction to task-based listening for ESL/EFL teachers who are looking for ways to do more in their listening classes than ask students to answer comprehension questions about something they listened to. In this short ebook, Steven Brown, author of Listening Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching and a well-known ESL/EFL listening textbook series, defines task-based listening (TBL) and describes: how to build a task-based listening program how to create a task-based listening lesson ways to activate vocabulary acquisition in listening tasks how listening can improve grammatical knowledge the links between listening and pronunciation the ways that metacognitive strategies can assist students when listening, particularly when listening to lectures the advantages of extensive listening (especially while reading) the benefits of interactive listening, including how to design a good speaking task All chapters include specific tips and suggestions for using these concepts in the classroom.
Taste: A cultural history of the home interior
by Drew PlunkettDemocratic in intention and approach, the book will argue that the home interior, as independently created by the ‘amateur’ householder, offers a continuous informal critique of shifting architectural styles (most notably with the advent of Modernism) and the design mainstream. Indeed, it will suggest that the popular increasingly exerts an influence on the professional. Underpinned by academic rigour, but not in thrall to it, above all this book is an engaging attempt to identify the cultural drivers of aesthetic change in the home, extrapolating the wider influence of ‘taste’ to a broad audience – both professional and ‘trade’. In so doing, it will explore enthralling territory – money, class, power and influence. Illustrated with contemporary drawings and cartoons as well as photos, the book will not only be an absorbing read, but an enticing and attractive object in itself.
Taste: Media and Interior Design
by Karin TehveThis book traces and explores the evolution of taste from a design perspective: what it is, how it works, and what it does. Karin Tehve examines taste primarily through its recursive relationship to media. This ongoing process changes the relationship between designers and the public, and our understanding of the relationship of individuals to their social contexts. Through an analysis of taste, design is understood to be an active constituent of social life, not as autonomous from it. This book reclaims a term long dismissed from interior design and unveils taste’s role as a powerful social and political agent within systems of aesthetics, affecting both its producers and consumers. Each chapter discusses a taste concept or definition, analyzes its reciprocal relationship with media, and explores its implications for interior design. Illustrated with 70 images, taste’s relationship to media is viewed through a variety of different lenses, including books, photography, magazines, internet, social media and algorithms. Written primarily for students and scholars of interior design and related design fields, this book will be a helpful resource for all those interested in the question of taste, and is an invitation to produce and consume all media critically.
A Taste of Disney: Bite-Size Recipes in a Snack-Size Book
by Insight EditionsEnjoy a taste of Disney with this pocket-size cookbook of snacks inspired by your favorite animated adventures!Celebrate your love of Disney films with this adorable cookbook filled with the most delicious snacks from Insight Editions&’ bestselling Disney and Pixar cookbooks. BITE-SIZE AND DELICIOUS: Tempt your tastebuds with these simple recipes featuring everyday ingredients. Enjoy White Rabbit's Garden Crudité (Alice in Wonderland), Merida Cranachan (Brave), Bare Necessities Banana Muffins (The Jungle Book), Mug of Meat (The Emperor's New Groove), Icicle Cookies (Frozen), and so many more delicious creations to munch on! GREAT GIFT: Perfect for holidays, party hosts, birthdays—and un-birthdays, of course! It's sure to be a delight for any Disney fan BEAUTIFUL AND CUTE: This fully licensed cookbook features gorgeous recipe photos, beautiful styling, and artful appearances of the characters you love
A Taste of Disney: Sippable Recipes in a Pint-Size Book
by Insight EditionsToast your favorite Disney film with this pocket-size recipe book bursting with drinks inspired by your favorite animated adventures!Soak up this adorable recipe book featuring gorgeous, tasty nonalcoholic recipes for delectable drinks from Insight Editions&’ full line of Disney and Pixar best-selling cookbooks. EASY AND DELICIOUS: Raise a glass to this recipe book filled with simple instructions featuring everyday ingredients to brew up delicious drinks for all ages. Enjoy Lu'Au Blue Hawaiian (Lilo & Stitch), Black Forest Hot Cocoa (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs), Growth Potion (Alice in Wonderland), Tiana Mardi Gras Smoothie (Princess and the Frog), and so many more drinks to sip and savor GREAT GIFT: Perfect for holidays, party hosts, birthdays—and un-birthdays, of course! It's sure to be a delight for any Disney fan BEAUTIFUL AND CUTE: This fully licensed cookbook features gorgeous recipe photos, beautiful styling, and artful appearances of the characters you love
A taste of... Make Me I'm Yours… Party
by VariousThree sample projects from Make Me I'm Yours . . . Party, including cocktail glass cookies, paper lantern decorations and fun and colourful gift bags. Be inspired with beautiful photography of these quick and simple projects to add some pizazz to your party.
A Taste of... Stitch at Home
by Mandy ShawThree sample projects from Mandy Shaws "Stitch at Home," including a pretty place setting tablecloth, summery bunting and a selection of cutwork cushions (plus an adorable mini pincushion ). These sweet stitchery and applique projects are perfect to get you sewing Each project features step-by-step instructions and illustrated techniques.
A Taste of the Château: Master the art of seasonal celebrations with over 100 delicious recipes, beautiful crafts and inspiring gardening projects
by Dick Strawbridge Angel StrawbridgeMaster the art of seasonal celebration with over 100 delicious recipes, beautiful crafts and inspiring gardening projects from Sunday Times bestselling authors Dick and Angel StrawbridgeDrawing on their many years of hosting friends, family and guests at Château-de-la-Motte Husson , this book is Dick and Angel's definitive guide to creating magical and unforgettable celebrations in your very own home.Whether it's enjoying the blossoming of spring with a delicious Easter lunch, soaking up the joys of summer with picnics and outdoor games, harvesting the bounty of the garden produce in autumn or creating an unforgettable family Christmas during winter, Dick and Angel have it covered. Packed full of fun and creative ideas - as well as plenty of tips and tricks for giving it a go yourself - you'll find something here for every occasion.It's time to have a go at celebrating the Château way!
A Taste of the Château: Master the art of seasonal celebrations with over 100 delicious recipes, beautiful crafts and inspiring gardening projects
by Dick Strawbridge Angel StrawbridgeMaster the art of seasonal celebration with over 100 delicious recipes, beautiful crafts and inspiring gardening projects from Sunday Times bestselling authors Dick and Angel StrawbridgeDrawing on their many years of hosting friends, family and guests at Château-de-la-Motte Husson , this book is Dick and Angel's definitive guide to creating magical and unforgettable celebrations in your very own home.Whether it's enjoying the blossoming of spring with a delicious Easter lunch, soaking up the joys of summer with picnics and outdoor games, harvesting the bounty of the garden produce in autumn or creating an unforgettable family Christmas during winter, Dick and Angel have it covered. Packed full of fun and creative ideas - as well as plenty of tips and tricks for giving it a go yourself - you'll find something here for every occasion.It's time to have a go at celebrating the Château way!
A Taste of True Blood: The Fangbanger's Guide
by Joseph Mccabe Nick Mamatas Alisa Kwitney Maria Lima Bev Katz Rosenbaum Philippa Ballantine Leah Wilson Jonna Rubin Paula Rogers Jacob Clifton Daniel M. Kimmel Kirsty Walker Peg Aloi Vera Nazarian Peter B. LloydTrue Blood, Alan Ball's critically acclaimed television adaptation of Charlaine Harris' bestselling Southern Vampire mysteries, is HBO's most-watched show since The Sopranos, averaging over 12 million viewers an episode in its second season. Thanks to its large, dedicated fanbase, it won the People's Choice "Favorite TV Obsession" award in early 2010.A Taste of True Blood: The Fangbanger's Guide gives those fans something to savor between episodes-and whets their appetite for more. Covering the show's first two seasons and released just in time for the third (with real-time online updates from the book's contributors throughout season three), the book includes pieces on: Vampire Bill's season 2 slide from hot to not Sookie's mind-reading talents as a critique of our oversharing Facebook culture What a Louisiana setting adds to the traditional vampire myth Why the television series had to differ from the books (co-written by the Southern Vampire mysteries' editor Ginjer Buchanan) And much more, from shapeshifters to maenads to Merlotte'sA Taste of True Blood also includes a quick reference guide to the show's first two seasons.
Tastemaker: Elizabeth Gordon, House Beautiful, and the Postwar American Home
by Monica PenickA riveting and superbly illustrated account of the enigmatic House Beautiful editor’s profound influence on mid-century American taste From 1941 to 1964, House Beautiful magazine’s crusading editor-in-chief Elizabeth Gordon introduced and promoted her vision of “good design” and “better living” to an extensive middle-class American readership. Her innovative magazine-sponsored initiatives, including House Beautiful’s Pace Setter House Program and the Climate Control Project, popularized a “livable” and decidedly American version of postwar modern architecture. Gordon’s devotion to what she called the American Style attracted the attention of Frank Lloyd Wright, who became her ally and collaborator. Gordon’s editorial programs reshaped ideas about American living and, by extension, what consumers bought, what designers made, and what manufacturers brought to market. This incisive assessment of Gordon’s influence as an editor, critic, and arbiter of domestic taste reflects more broadly on the cultures of consumption and identity in postwar America. Nearly 200 images are featured, including work by Ezra Stoller, Maynard Parker, and Julius Shulman. This important book champions an often-neglected source—the consumer magazine—as a key tool for deepening our understanding of mid-century architecture and design.
The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America
by Edward WhiteA revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer who captured the era's icons, and a novelist who created some of the Jazz Age's most salacious stories. A close confidant of Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, George Gershwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and the Knopfs, Van Vechten frolicked in the 1920s Manhattan demimonde, finding himself in Harlem's jazz clubs, Hell's Kitchen's speakeasies, and Greenwich Village's underground gay scene. New York City was a hotbed of vice as well as creativity, and Van Vechten was at the center of it all. Edward White's biography--the first comprehensive biography of Carl Van Vechten in nearly half a century, and the first to fully explore Van Vechten's tangled relationship to race and sexuality--depicts a controversial figure who defined an age. Embodying many of the contradictions of modern America, Van Vechten was a devoted husband with a coterie of boys by his side, a supporter of difficult art who also loved lowbrow entertainment, and a promoter of the Harlem Renaissance whose bestselling novel--and especially its title--infuriated many of the same African-American artists he championed. Van Vechten's defense of what many Americans considered bad taste--modernist literature, African-American culture, and sexual self-expression--created a popular appetite for these quintessential elements of American art. The Tastemaker encompasses its subject's private fears and longings, as well as Manhattan's raucous, taboo-busting social scene of which he was such a central part. It is a remarkable portrait of a man whose brave journeys across boundaries of race, sexuality, and taste helped make America fully modern.
Tastemakers and Tastemaking: Mexico and Curated Screen Violence (SUNY series in Latin American Cinema)
by Niamh ThorntonTastemakers and Tastemaking develops a new approach to analyzing violence in Mexican films and television by examining the curation of violence in relation to three key moments: the decade-long centennial commemoration of the Mexican Revolution launched in 2010; the assaults and murders of women in Northern Mexico since the late 1990s; and the havoc wreaked by the illegal drug trade since the early 2000s. Niamh Thornton considers how violence is created, mediated, selected, or categorized by tastemakers, through the strategic choices made by institutions, filmmakers, actors, and critics. Challenging assumptions about whose and what kind of work merit attention and traversing normative boundaries between "good" and "bad" taste, Thornton draws attention to the role of tastemaking in both "high" and "low" media, including film cycles and festivals, adaptations of Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel, Los de Abajo, Amat Escalante's hyperrealist art films, and female stars of recent genre films and the telenovela, La reina del sur. Making extensive use of videographic criticism, Thornton pays particularly close attention to the gendered dimensions of violence, both on and off screen.
Tasty Crochet: A Pantry Full of Patterns for 33 Tasty Treats
by Rose LanglitzDo you secretly love to play with your food?Whether you're craving peanuts or pizza, you'll find just the thing to hit the spot between the covers of Tasty Crochet. With over 30 crochet patterns on the menu, there's something here to please every palette. In addition to snack items that can be stitched up in a flash, you'll find:patterns to plan a meal for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even dessertbasic crochet techniques to get you started right awayshort "ingredients" lists to make finishing an item quick and easyWhether they're play food for the kids or fun projects for you, you'll love increasing your daily fiber intake with Tasty Crochet!
Tate: the perfect SECRET SANTA present
by Frances Ambler'Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.' - MatisseUse this essential guide to crack artistic algorithms and improve, sustain and nurture your creativity. Brief Lessons in Creativity presents a rich variety of artistic methods and solutions for you to try, and is packed with inspiration and practical takeaways. Stay curious like Rauschenberg by immersing yourself in the world through seeing, reading and researching. Repeat and revisit with Cézanne to try things differently, and collect and remix with Matisse and Bacon. Appreciate the importance of solitude and space with Bourgeois, and improvise freely with Van Gogh. With every chapter, learn how to create your best work and embrace a new sense of playfulness.
Tate: the perfect SECRET SANTA present
by Frances Ambler'Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist'- PicassoWhether it's through disrupting a routine, turning an idea on its head or challenging the norm, Brief Lessons in Rule Breaking will give you the confidence to take creative risks and experiment, free from self-doubt. Be inspired by the artistic avant garde with wise words from Abramovic, Duchamp and more.
Tate: Life Drawing (Tate #3)
by Hester BerryLearn how to construct a figure, capture gesture and bring depth, energy and movement into your work with the expert guidance of Sketch Club: Life Drawing. Featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, this book will give you the confidence to ace your human figure drawing skills, both inside and outside the studio. It will help you know where to start, when to stop and how to fix common mistakes. Hone your skills, build your confidence, and most importantly, get drawing!
Tate: Life Drawing (Tate Ser.)
by Hester BerryThe only way to get better at drawing is through practise - and there is no better subject to draw from than life. Let Sketch Club: Life Drawing show you how.This practical guide to capturing the human figure teaches fundamental drawing skills while providing instruction on how to get the most from a life drawing class.Featuring 20 step-by-step exercises, the book shows intermediate artists how to put their skills into practice. Learn how to construct a figure, capture gesture and bring depth, energy and movement into your work. Sketch Club: Life Drawing is the first in an exciting new series aimed at demystifying the artist's process. The book covers a range of media and offers inspirational references to the work of other famous artists. A problem-solving section covers how to fix common mistakes and know when to stop. Hone your skills, build your confidence, and most importantly, get drawing!