Learn How to Blow Glass: Glass Blowing Techniques, Step by Step Instructions, Necessary Tools and Equipment.
ISBN: 9780986642609 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains everything you need to start learning glass blowing today. The author puts everything she knows about glass blowing into simple, understandable language so that everyone can easily learn all there is to know about making beautiful glass. Inside the book, you will learn: The History of Glass Blowing The Properties of the Glass: So your art looks great and stands the test of time. All Necessary Glass Blowing Equipment: Learn how to get your glass blowing hobby started with the right gear. How to Use Your Tools: Great pointers on how to make your best... This book contains everything you need to start learning glass blowing today. The author puts everything she knows about glass blowing into simple,... |
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97,06 zł |
Marble Mania
ISBN: 9780764335501 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This expanded 2nd edition is the definitive guide to marble collecting, with over 1,400 color photographs identifying marbles. It features the main areas of interest on makers and manufacturers of marbles made of stone, minerals, and early hand- and machine-made glass. It covers many games, toys, and other uses for marbles; and includes a useful glossary, listing of clubs, societies, marble shows, and museums. All the winners of the U.S. National Marble Tournaments are listed. The value of each of the marbles is suggested for general reference.
This expanded 2nd edition is the definitive guide to marble collecting, with over 1,400 color photographs identifying marbles. It features the main ar...
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174,67 zł |
Tiffany Studios' Techniques: Inspiration for Today's Artists
ISBN: 9780764336249 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This brilliantly assembled book explores the creative media that master designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) and his Tiffany Studios in New York pioneered, coupled with related masterpieces that contemporary artists have made. Nine chapters present Tiffany's original paintings and fine arts, stained glass windows and lampshades, mosaics, favrile glass objects, metalwork, enamels, and jewelry. Each method is explained and superlative examples are shown in 560 color photographs. Related artworks, by 17 contemporary artists, establish how L.C. Tiffany has influenced living artists. All the...
This brilliantly assembled book explores the creative media that master designer Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) and his Tiffany Studios in New York...
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524,11 zł |
Art Glass Today
ISBN: 9780764334641 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over 60 contemporary, international glass artists who transform molten glass into works of art. Learn about their blown, cast, kiln-formed, lampwork, cold work, fusing, laminating, carving, sand blasting, acid etching, and cutting techniques, shared in their own words. See installation pieces, tableware, vases, bottles and stoppers, bowls, sculptures, furniture (including countertops and basins), paperweights, beads, and diptychs. All who enjoy and work in glass will find this an invaluable reference and inspiration to future creativity.
Over 60 contemporary, international glass artists who transform molten glass into works of art. Learn about their blown, cast, kiln-formed, lampwork, ...
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251,11 zł |
Elegant Glass Candleholders: Brilliant Cut Era, Roaring '20s, Depression Era, Modern
ISBN: 9780764316357 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The candleholders in this beautiful book epitomize twentieth century glassmaking at its best. Showcased are candleholders with exquisite engravings from the Brilliant Cut era, rich colors and detailed silver and gold overlays from the Roaring '20s, elaborate etchings from the Depression era, and modern styles from the United States and Europe. Details of cuttings, etchings, engravings and decorations help to identify pieces by Hawkes, Hoare, Libbey, Pairpoint, Sinclair, Steuben, and more. Beautifully photographed and thoroughly researched, this book is a must for all candleholder collectors....
The candleholders in this beautiful book epitomize twentieth century glassmaking at its best. Showcased are candleholders with exquisite engravings fr...
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152,83 zł |
The Encyclopedia of Modern Marbles, Spheres, & Orbs
ISBN: 9780764322945 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This beautiful and thought-provoking reference explores the close relationships among contemporary studio art glass marbles, spheres, and orbs and their predecessors, the marbles of childhood, as well as areas of significant divergence. Over 900 gorgeous color photos display the vast range available today, including handmade and machine-made marbles, edition types, regular stock, open edition production stock, prototypes, limited editions, experimental works, and studio glass. Many rare and historical examples are shown. The thorough and engaging text provides a history of the studio glass...
This beautiful and thought-provoking reference explores the close relationships among contemporary studio art glass marbles, spheres, and orbs and the...
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349,39 zł |
Solid-Colored Dinnerware: Depression to Mid-Century
ISBN: 9780764328466 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The popular collectible dinnerware lines of our time are highlighted in this new book, principally Fiesta and Lu-Ray, plus other lines that are often confused with one another. Accompanied by a price guide and over 500 color illustrations, author Mark Gonzalez highlights the companies and the lines they produced. Look back at a previous time (1930s to 1960s) when bold dinnerware in Fiesta-type colors (red, cobalt, yellow, green, maroon, turquoise) and pastel glazes were "in" with consumers. American-made, solid-colored dinnerware features a wide array of shapes, in dozens of colors, made over...
The popular collectible dinnerware lines of our time are highlighted in this new book, principally Fiesta and Lu-Ray, plus other lines that are often ...
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152,83 zł |
A Guide to Sandwich Glass: Pressed Tableware from Volume 1
ISBN: 9780887405525 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Volume 1, a comprehensive guide enhanced by 252 color photos plus numerous documents and illustrations. The photos are accompanied by measurements, approximate date of manufacture, and captions that detail production methods. This guide includes the Lacy glass long recognized as a Sandwich product but placed in context as being only a small part of overall Boston and Sandwich Glass Company manufacture.
From Volume 1, a comprehensive guide enhanced by 252 color photos plus numerous documents and illustrations. The photos are accompanied by measurement...
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152,83 zł |
Complete Copier: The Oeuvre of A.O. Copier 1901-1991
ISBN: 9789056628338 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting his career as a glassblower at the Leerdam glass works factory when he was just 14 years old, Andries Copier (1901-1991) went on to become the greatest glass designer that the Netherlands has ever known. Copier was influenced by the Bauhaus design ethos, and, following its lead, established a clean, geometric Dutch style for the glass arts that combined affordability with elegance. Made in association with the Dutch National Glass Museum on the occasion of their momentous Copier retrospective, The Oeuvre of A.D. Copier catalogues the prolific designer's life's work. Cataloging...
Starting his career as a glassblower at the Leerdam glass works factory when he was just 14 years old, Andries Copier (1901-1991) went on to become th...
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411,97 zł |
Reflections on American Brilliant Cut Glass
ISBN: 9780887407222 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Valuable new information on American Brilliant Cut Glass is presented in the Boggesses' most recent work, Diverse sources including 135 originals catalogs, patent records, magazine advertisements and personal interviews with people within the glass industry as well as collectors and dealers were used to complete this thorough study. Patterns, colored patterns and their variations, common and unusual shapes, changing terminology, and signature marks are all discussed in detail. Rare pieces, such as those appearing in Exhibitions, are also addressed. Over 950 photographs illustrate this...
Valuable new information on American Brilliant Cut Glass is presented in the Boggesses' most recent work, Diverse sources including 135 originals cata...
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300,25 zł |
A Guide to Sandwich Glass: Blown Tableware, Pressed Cup Plates and Salts from Volume 1
ISBN: 9780887405532 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Volume 1, 252 color photos that will guide you in your identification of Sandwich glass. Manufacturing methods are explained in captions that accompany each photo. The authors' attention to history and documentation assures that each object pictured is the product of a Sandwich factory. The price guide included gives the value of each piece in clear glass as well as in an assortment of colors.
From Volume 1, 252 color photos that will guide you in your identification of Sandwich glass. Manufacturing methods are explained in captions that acc...
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152,83 zł |
Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780295992655 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Links documents the first presentation of a broad spectrum of contemporary Australian studio glass to an American audience. The book explores an international network of craft influences and exchanges that started in the mid-1970s, clarifies techniques of glass production from manufacture to finished product, and illustrates significant contemporary glasswork that is not blown. Links begins in 1974, when American Richard Marquis traveled to Australia at the request of its government to promote studio glass and establish hot shops in educational institutions. His... Links documents the first presentation of a broad spectrum of contemporary Australian studio glass to an American audience. The book explore... |
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259,35 zł |
Stained Glass
ISBN: 9780747811473 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For over a thousand years stories of Christian belief and great moments in British history have filled the windows of our cathedrals and parish churches. The glow of painted and stained glass, its radiant colours and vivid pictures, has inspired generations of audiences and artists. This beautifully illustrated book traces the development of a unique art from its earliest beginnings in Anglo-Saxon England to the present day. It includes fascinating descriptions of medieval and renaissance glass, the religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries which saw thousands of... For over a thousand years stories of Christian belief and great moments in British history have filled the windows of our cathedrals and parish chu... |
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49,09 zł |
Mould Making for Glass
ISBN: 9781408114339 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly all glass makers (unless they are blowing glass) need moulds Nearly all glass makers (unless they are blowing glass) need moulds |
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82,94 zł |
Vladimira Klumpar: Work in Glass
ISBN: 9788074371042 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Monografie Work in Glass sleduje téměř tři desetiletí tvorby Vladimíry Klumpar, špičkové americké sklářky a výtvarnice českého původu, která se již od svých studií u profesora Libenského věnuje skleněné tavené plastice. Publikace interpretuje objevnost, monumetalitu a dynamičnost jejích sochařských objektů. Mimořádnou autorčinu senzitivitu, úzce spjatou se světem přírody, a vysoce kultivované abstraktní vnímání dokazují nejen její plastiky, ale i publikované kresby. Knihu uvádí studie amerického teorika Williama V. Ganise, autobiografický...
Monografie Work in Glass sleduje téměř tři desetiletí tvorby Vladimíry Klumpar, špičkové americké sklářky a výtvarnice českého původu,...
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183,84 zł |
The Development of Glass Bottle Making Machines
ISBN: 9780900682766 / Angielski / Miękka / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our journey takes us from the days of early hand making through to the modern day IS machine, a journey that takes us from the late 17th century through to the early 21st century. There are throughout this discourse many developments that failed to come into fruition, these are explored so that the reader can see the differences in approach that people made to the development of the machines. From such diversity there will be machines that have been missed, some of these machines will be local and confined to a single company, or, due to the sparseness of recorded history they will be the...
Our journey takes us from the days of early hand making through to the modern day IS machine, a journey that takes us from the late 17th century throu...
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364,27 zł |
Mesmerizing Meditative Crystal Patterns Adult Coloring Book
ISBN: 9781533332608 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For samples of interior, visit our Facebook page:
http: //bit.ly/1XAYuTx Mesmerizing Meditative Crystal Patterns brings you 76 one sided pages of designs created from original antique cut crystal motifs. Rather than simple line drawings, the colorist will find grayscale and intricate pattern images, creating the opportunity for artistic interpretation. For samples of interior, visit our Facebook page:
http: //bit.ly/1XAYuTx Mesmerizing Meditative Crystal Patterns brings you 76 one sided page... |
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36,20 zł |
Something Special For The Bride
ISBN: 9781542417334 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For her. For the days ahead, the days of plans, appointments, engagements, laughter and perhaps a tear of two. What an exciting time. Make the most of it with the help of a trusty journal/planner, to write down what's needed. Here's the perfect one, featuring a pair of 1910 wedding pillowcase pictures and 2010 calligraphy scrolls from a bride in the background. Enjoy
For her. For the days ahead, the days of plans, appointments, engagements, laughter and perhaps a tear of two. What an exciting time. Make the most of...
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30,73 zł |
Especially For The Maid Of Honor
ISBN: 9781542426114 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What a pillar of support, just when the bride needs it the most. You have been given such an honor by a beautiful friend. Here's just the thing you can use to thoroughly help her: a lovely journal/planner. What a great honor. What a great friend
What a pillar of support, just when the bride needs it the most. You have been given such an honor by a beautiful friend. Here's just the thing you ca...
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30,73 zł |
Lucio Bubacco: Erotics
ISBN: 9783897905153 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of the subjects of Lucio Bubacco s (b. 1957) glass art are provocative and polarising; at the same time they are sensual and beguiling.
Most of the subjects of Lucio Bubacco s (b. 1957) glass art are provocative and polarising; at the same time they are sensual and beguiling.
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267,54 zł |