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Arts and Crafts Books
Recommended arts and crafts books about designing, making, marketing and photographing your arts and crafts products. Also addressed are pointer on how to efficiently and effectively operate your arts and crafts business. This includes paying taxes on your arts and crafts income, hiring workers and saving money by purchasing supplies for your arts and crafts business wholesale. I also address making crafts from eco-friendly and found materials.
Resources for Fast Knitting Projects
Thinking about turning your love for knitting into a profitable craft business? A major drawback is the fact that unless you are a well-known designer, it's difficult to make money selling handcrafted knitted goods. However, don't despair! The key to making money in the commercial kntting gig is to simplify construction and specialize in smaller...
Green Guide for Artists
Many of the readymade supplies we buy for our arts and crafts business are toxic to use and create a hazard if disposed of improperly. This fantastic book by Karen Michel provides nontoxic recipes for paints and adhesives, gives resources to buy eco-friendly arts and crafts supplies and has an impressive and inspiring gallery profile section.
Great Books on Making Arts and Crafts From Found Materials
Check out five great arts and crafts books on the topic of using eco-friendly materials. Find out about altered art, using materials from the recycling bin and stitching up a Kate Spade or Prada-like handbag using recyled plastic, vinyl and micro-fibers.
Designing Sustainable Packaging - Eco-Friendly Arts and Crafts
Making arts and crafts from recycled products has been a continuing trend. However, reusing and repurposing raw materials doesn't do a heck of a lot of good unless our arts and crafts products are provided to our customers in sustainable packaging as well. Designing Sustainable Packaging gives useful information about reusing and resourcing...
Doll Making from Concept to Construction by Susanna Oroyan
A superior book about doll making covering topics from concept to construction. Spanning design in many different materials, it also provides stellar information about making armatures. Due to this fact, those working in paper mache will also find this book very valuable.
Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Review of Linda Parry's book Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The book contains gorgeous color plates of material designs and interesting historical information that can be used by today's artist or crafter.
Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing
Book review of Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing by Rita J. Adrosko. It contains 52 recipes for fabric dyes made from plants and four recipes for mordants.
Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay
Review of Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay by Katherine Dewey. This book is an excellent resource for any artist or crafter considering working with polymer clay.
Five Recommended Arts and Crafts Business Resource Books
Looking for some fantastic current resources for your arts and crafts business? I recommend five arts and crafts books in my personal library. They cover topics from designing your art or craft product and photographing it to picking the right marketing venue and day-to-day pointers on how to efficiently and effectively operate your business.
The Pop-Up Book Review
Learn how to make pop-ups, a cheap and creative way to add pizzazz to your arts and crafts progects. The Pop-Up Book by Paul Jackson is a great introduction to the topic for the beginner pop-up artist. Find out more about this excellent pop-up resource.