Folk Style for the Home

Including 35 projects, from colourful quilts and hooked rugs to attractive stencil patterns for walls and furniture, this step-by-step guide shows how to create beautiful decorative and practical crafts in the authentic folk art tradition.

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How to create beautiful decorative and practical crafts in the authentic folk art tradition. A style guide and project book, photographed step-by-step. Includes 35 projects, from colourful quilts and hooked rugs to attractive stencil patterns for walls and furniture, and from carved wood motifs to punched tin-ware lamps. This beautifully illustrated book is both a historical and practical exploration of folk arts and crafts, including interior decoration, furniture painting, quilting, needlecraft, rug making, woodwork, tinwork and metalwork. It features 35 practical ideas and projects in the folk-art spirit to follow at home, each of which is explained in clear step-by-step sequences accompanied by photographs.