silhouettes

A brother and sister collect the whimsical recipe ingredients for making a moon, and learn about love and relationships.

Collects more than six hundred silhouettes from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, featuring nearly every type of silhouette commercial artists, designers, and craftsmen could need.

Contains instructions for twenty-one papercut projects, with twenty variations, inspired by silhouette designs, including cards, decorative boxes, paper dolls, mobiles, lanterns, and other items, and features information on materials and techniques, and a companion CD.

Reveals that Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen was also a gifted artist whose paper cuttings, photographs of which are included here, were as innovative as his stories and gave great pleasure to the people around him.