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Tin-enameling designs, including scrollwork, lace patterns, vases of flowers, Chinese motifs and other Baroque and Rococo decorations.

For over two centuries, stitching samplers provided the major form of education for young girls. What little knowledge of reading, arithmetic and geography they gained came from the discipline and long hours with the needle. Today we study and enjoy all forms of samplers for their beauty and charm. In this book, the trees, flowers, animals, people and houses, as well as the alphabets that were the samplers' primary exercise, are authentically ...

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Read by Eartha Kitt

Features 24 poems. Approximate running time: 61 minutes.

An additional title for the well received NaturEncyclopedia Series featuring fascinating facts of the richly diverse forests of our planet, Earth.

This dramatized excerpt from Shakespeare's As You Like It is perfect for introducing "the bard" to young listeners. Accompanied by 16th century period music. Book and cassette.

An Introduction to Wallpaper.

Fabric, wallpaper, plaster and rug designs popular in the Victorian era.

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Inventive motifs from Persian mythology and iconography.

Bold black shapes, swirling lines, stylized nature motifs and splendid borders.

Designs drawn from ornamental and utilitarian objects of this important culture.

Designs favored by the Crow, Blackfoot, Comanche, Pawnee, Apache and many of the other tribes who occupied the Great Plains and prairies from Canada to Texas.

Traditional patterns woven into Persian textiles from ancient times to the present.

Daniel's birthday is almost over when his grandfather hands him a surprise gift--a shimmering harmonica! Come join Daniel in the concert of his life.

Flowers, birds, butterflies and other creative designs.

From fancifully garbed theatrical characters to richly appareled princes and the modest garb of peasants.

Features designs from the world of people -- their work, play, legends and stories they have invented, art objects they have made, landscapes chosen by the artist for their aesthetic appeal. Children, ladies, actors, peasants and patriarchs depicted.

Patterns of fascinating intricacy are the legacy of ancient Celtic artists, who intertwined the beauty of the natural world with the mystery of the spiritual world, as it was then perceived. In these designs, fantastic men, beasts, birds and serpents writhe and bite their way through twisting bands of knotwork and swirling spirals, in dazzling, never-ending linear displays. Artists, crafts people, colourists, and all who love pure design will ...