crafts & hobbies / papercrafts

Indie artist Christine Schmidt offers 25 decorations, toys, puzzles, and keepsakes for children using simple hand-printing techniques.

Contains illustrated, step-by-step instructions for folding twenty-eight origami airplanes.

Color photographs and step-by-step instructions present twenty original designs for origami boxes.

"A collection of easy-to-fold paper airplane designs and innovative theories of flight, including the author's Guinness World Record-breaking airplane. Features 16 tear-out model planes. The New World Champion Paper Airplane Book chronicles the creation of the new distance champion paper airplane and how it broke the world record. Collins's revolutionary approach to plane design is a departure from all previous record holders and represents the most important development in paper airplane design in decades. This entertaining guide also contains 19 other amazing designs with step-by-step instructional photos, including a novel locking technique, a pioneering cambered-wing plane, and multiple long-flying aircraft that soar for minutes rather than seconds. A 32-page insert of full-color tear-out paper airplane models are printed on regulation-weight, durable paper stock for hours of flying fun"--.

Provides instructions for twenty-five paper craft projects, including mobiles, garlands, ornaments, wreaths, and more.

In 1772, upon the death of her second husband, Mary Delany arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors, and, at the age of seventy-two, created a new art form: mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs. Delany produced an astonishing 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British Museum and referred to as the Flora Delanica. As she tracks the extraordinary life of Delany, friend of George Frideric Handel and Jonathan Swift internationally acclaimed poet Molly Peacock weaves in delicate parallels in her own life and, in doing so, creates a profound and beautiful examination of the nature of creativity and art. This gorgeously designed book, featuring thirty-five full-color illustrations, is to be devoured as voraciously as one of the court dinners it describes.

Showcases cardboard artwork by a variety of contemporary artists and designers and features do-it-yourself projects.

"James Allen, Thomas Allen, Noriko Ambe, Anonymous, Cara Barer, Doug Beube, Su Blackwell, Jennifer Collier, Brian Dettmer, Ari?n Dylan, Yvette Hawkins, Nicholas Jones, Jennifer Khoshbin, Lisa Kokin, Guy Laram?e, Pablo Lehmann, Jeremy May, Pamela Paulsrud, Susan Porteous, Alex Queral, Jacqueline Rush Lee, Georgia Russell, Mike Stilkey, Kylie Stillman, Julia Strand, Robert The, Vita Wells"--.