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  Fabric - The Hidden History of...

  Victoria Finlay

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  A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us. 
   
   
   
  How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest? Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town? How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe? What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the Viking Norns used threads to tell our destiny? 
   
   
   
  In Fabric, bestselling author Victoria Finlay spins us round the globe, weaving stories of our relationship with cloth and asking how and why people through the ages have made it, worn it, invented it, and made symbols out of it. And sometimes why they have fought for it. 
   
   
   
  She beats the inner bark of trees into cloth in Papua New Guinea, fails to handspin cotton in Guatemala, visits tweed weavers at their homes in Harris, and has lessons in patchwork-making in Gee's Bend, Alabama. 
   
   
   
  She began her research just after the deaths of both her parents—and entwined in the threads she found her personal story too. Fabric is not just a material history of our world, but Finlay's own journey through grief and recovery.

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  T-dola 7

  Jason Yonai

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  T-DOLA 7 is narrated by Jason D. Yonai a.k.a KazeLoon which talks about his time locked up and on the streets in his younger years. This audiobook contains 19 Chapters narrated by KazeLoon for K.D Lean Inc. publishing.

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  Making Tutus

  Amanda Hall

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  Making Tutus is a practical guide to making these traditional costumes for classical ballet dancers. As with the tutu itself, the book approaches the task in three parts – the tutu plate, the bodice and the decorative sections. It shares the secrets of a leading costume-maker as it explains the challenging task of, on the one hand, creating a light and beautiful ballet outfit suitable for performance and, on the other, making a comfortable and hardwearing costume that suits a character. In doing so, it reveals the extraordinary talent and techniques required by the costume-maker.

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  Earthmusic

  Paul Winter

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  Since the 1960s, Paul Winter has been in the vanguard of musicians whose art expresses special appreciation for the natural music of our world--wolf, whale, wind and water, combined with everything from Bach to Bossa Nova. In this visit Paul tells about the making of Missa Gaia, and his lifelong love affair with music that "presses your wonder button."

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  Glass Cultivator - Thomas...

  Thomas Schönauer, Robert Comploj

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  Two men, craftsmen, rough workshops with loud, hot machines and equipment, cranes, furnaces, welding equipment, forges, blowpipes, compressors and much more.
  
  In this environment, fine thoughts on filigree forms, the polishing of fractions of a millimetre, the balancing of light and material take place in an infinitely subtle design cosmos.
  
  The book shows two artists, their materials and their working methods as they could hardly be more diff erent and shows the resulting synergy, the birth of a new joint artistic path.

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  Five Little Monkeys Jumping On...

  Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo...

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  Kids will love this sweet story/song combination as they listen to “Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed,” and follow along word-for-word in the adorably illustrated eBook. Five little monkeys brush their teeth, put their pj's on, and get ready for bed. But guess what happens then?  Bedtime turns into playtime as the silly monkeys take turns jumping on the bed and then falling off. As each monkey falls off of the bed, their mama calls the doctor and he says, “No more monkeys jumping on the bed!” This well-known repetitive rhyme will have little ones laughing, singing, and learning how to count from 1-5. And the original, happy ending to this story/song will entertain and surprise everyone! With this perfect combination of education and entertainment, kids and parents alike will enjoy singing and reading “Five Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed” over and over again.

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