Decorative Arts

A major new look at the work of one of Americas foremost self-taught artistsBill Traylor (ca. 18531949) came to art-making on his own and found his...

Back in print, expanded, and revised, the second edition of Navajo Pictorial Weaving is devoted to all categories of antique Navajo pictorial weavi...

The bead played a vital role in Pueblo Indian jewelry design, and its influence continues today in modernist American design. In these pages, featu...

The fascinating phantasmal worlds in the work of the artist Cathy Ward. Pulsing and surging with dark energies, Cathy Ward''s mesmerising drawin...

In this new book, Jonathan Christie pieces together the fragments of this charming, eccentric and elusive artist''s life, gathering together the sc...

Fraktur is a manuscript-based folk art tradition brought from Europe by German-speaking immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania in the seventeenth c...

Part of everyday life, yet rich in symbolic meaning, renderings of the sun and the moon are present in all folk and tribal art traditions of India....

Arts & Crafts of the Native American Tribes is an authoritative illustrated reference that has been carefully created to be a companion to Ency...

Russian Folk Art surveys the traditions, styles, and functions of the many objects made by Russian peasant artists and artisans. Placing the object...

Here are new, contemporary perspectives on a craft from the 1800s, including eighteen top artists' insights about Sailors' Valentines plus more tha...

Sunny cats, sad cats, grinning cats, bad cats, cats with scowls and cats with jowls ...hand-bound with a silk screened cover, I Like Cats features ...

The hey-day of the British gypsy caravan was short, only about 70 years, during which period it grew from a simple utility vehicle, blossomed and f...

Explore the naive art of late 19th and early 20th century shooting gallery targets, whole galleries, and arcade forms. Commonly seen on early midwa...

This title shows you how to create beautiful and decorative pieces in the folk art tradition, with 35 projects. It is a historical and practical ex...

This title celebrates the living traditions of the renowned northeast Georgia folk pottery clans. John Michael Vlach called Brothers in Clay 'not o...

This book introduces the reader to 32 self-taught artists in the Southeastern United States. Some have already come to the attention of collectors ...

Painstakingly constructed by hand of plant fiber and precious feathers from endemic birds of Hawai'i, feather cloaks and capes provided spiritual p...

What common baking ingredient can conceal white rings on furniture? (Crushed pecans.) How do you detect a repair in a pottery vase you want to buy?...

Much has changed in the world of self-taught art since the millennium. Many of the recognized masters have died and new artists have emerged. Ma...

While often some of the most beautiful, opulent buildings in a town or city, a theatre is so much more than a space for the performance of a play. ...

Exploring some of the worlds eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europes last leper colony and South Atlantic whal...

Modern Dried Flowers is a contemporary guide to the sustainable art of preserving and styling stems.   Versatile, chic, environmentally mindful, af...