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Elegant, full-size, window treatments cost big bucks. Why not save money and make your own Roman shades, gathered curtains, and more! With our easy-to-follow guide, it’s easier than you think.

Enjoy this beginner's guide that takes you by the hand like a personal instructor and teaches you how to crochet.

Teaches fundamental jewelry-making techniques - hammering, soldering, and riveting. This book illustrates the steps for crafting twenty beautiful pieces of metalwork jewelry, including rings, bracelets, earrings, and pendants. It features gallery-quality jewelry from dozens of contributing artists.

Offers a formula-based approach to baking bread at home, making the mixing, the rising, and the baking itself more approachable and less intimidating. This book shows how with just 10 formulas readers can create more than 40 different products.

Gelato also has 35 per cent less air whipped into it than ice cream, heightening its rich mouthfeel without tipping the scales. This work offers more than 45 recipes and flavour variations for exquisite frozen desserts, made from all-natural ingredients available at a grocery store or farmers market.

The Complete Photo Guide to Cookie Decorating is a richly illustrated how-to reference detailing various techniques for decorating cookies, including buttercream icing, rolled fondant, run sugar, painting, chocolate icing, and egg wash glaze.

This is the second book in the Design Elements series that focuses on a single core element of design. Created with the design student in mind, each book in the series offers a comprehensive reference for understanding and effective application of these core building blocks for designers. Each book breaks down the rules and elements of related to its specific subject, how and when to apply effective usage, as well as when it¿s okay to break the rules. This series of books expands on the chapters currently offered in Design Elements (by Timothy Samara) and the presentation and didactic nature of each book is inspired by Design Elements as well. This is a reference library which every designer needs but does not have. Both text book and design reference, each book in this series offers not only instruction promising a solid understanding and usage rules for the core elements of design but also provides application oriented inspiration as a crucial teaching tool. This book is a detailed approach to teaching the fundamentals of good design.

With beautiful illustrations and step-by-step instructions, this how-to book includes all the techniques involved in crafting metal jewelry.

The Graphic Design Reference & Specification Book is a must-have sourcebook for every designer—amateur of professional. Completely practical with only the most needed information, this valuable book provides designers with all the little details that can make or break a design, such as:How much space to leave in the gutter when designing barrel foldsHow to layout a template for a box, and the ratios of each partMetric conversion chartsCopyright and trademark standardsProofreaders' symbolsImage file formatsStandard camera formats and sizesFinding the best scanning resolutionType basics and terminologyGuide to printing processesPaper usage guideStandard binding typesProcess color finderProofing methodsStandard envelope sizes in the USA, Europe, Canada and AsiaAnd much more.Take this compact and accessible reference everywhere you go for details on all the things you can never find but need to know when designing. The Reference & Specification Book series from Rockport Publishers offers students and practicing professionals in a range of creative industries must-have information in their area of specialty in an up-to-date, concise handbook.

Focusing on simple, elegant projects, this book offers paper crafters a complete technique guide along with step-by-step project ideas for making beautiful framed pieces, cards, and gifts. It features designs built upon simple rolled coils of paper that when grouped together, form intricate flowers, graceful butterflies, and delicate scrollwork.