Bringing a time-honored art form into the modern needle-working world, this visually rich how-to guide reveals the techniques of Japanese temari balls. Anyone with an interest in fabric arts, particularly Japanese arts and design, can master stitching techniques and layer threads to create pattern, color, and texture. There are more than 40 easy-to-follow patterns to help fine-tune this skill set that will appeal to not only temari enthusiasts, but to quilters and embroiderers as well. Ste...

With little more than a needle and colorful embroidery threads, Barbara Suess shows how to make beautiful Japanese temari—a folk craft dating back to the to the 12th century. Crafted from the same silk threads used to weave elegant kimonos, temari balls evolved from playthings for children to an exquisite art form that delights all ages. Traditional temari incorporates centuries-old beloved patterns embroidered onto a simple handball. In Japanese Temari, Barbara Suess shares the secrets of...

The fun and easy Japanese craft of Kimekomi (pronounced kee-may-ko-mee)—the making of decorative fabric balls—dates back to the early 1700s with the making of cloth-covered wooden dolls. Today it has evolved into the artful covering of balls with cloth and ribbon and cord. In Japanese Kimekomi: Fast, Fun, and Fabulous Fabric Handballs authors Barbara Suess and Kathleen Hewitt have collected 16 colorful designs that are fun and easy to make. The book includes step-by-step drawings and color...

We hope that you will enjoy our Juicing for Life book. We have been juicing on and off for over thirty-five years. At first, juicing was a family activity where the kids could pick their fruits and vegetables to juice. In later years, I juiced whenever I felt ill, hoping that the juice would help to heal my body. For anyone who has ever been very ill, they know that they will eat or drink anything to regain wellness. So I often juiced without consideration of taste. With the help of my doc...

This new essay collection brings together some of the top Brontë scholars working today, as well as new critical voices, to examine the many layers of Anne Brontë's fiction and other writings and to restore Brontë to her rightful place in literary history. Until very recently, Brontë's literary fate has been to live in the critical shadow of her older sisters, Charlotte and Emily, in spite of the fact that her two published novels, Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were widely...

Progress and Identity in the Poems of W. B. Yeats explores the ways in which Yeats's plays offer an alternative form of progress via a philosophical system of opposites: Always seeking the opposite, the nature of which changes as we change, we continually augment our personalities, and ultimately improve society, with the inclusion of the Other. This system, which eventually became Yeats's doctrine of the mask, provided his contemporaries with a method of changing what science, Pl...

Concerned for her family’s financial welfare and eager to expand her own horizons, Agnes Grey takes up the position of governess, the only respectable employment for an unmarried woman in the nineteenth century. Unfortunately, Agnes cannot anticipate the hardship, humiliation, and loneliness that await her in the brutish Bloomfield and haughty Murray households. Drawn from Anne Brontë’s own experiences, Agnes Grey depicts the harsh conditions and class snobbery that governesses we...

"Easy Guide To Juicing With 64 Delicious Juicing Recipes To Get You Started" gives you an overview of juicing without leaving out vital information that will get you started and keep you going as you discover for yourself the life-transforming health benefits that will be delivered to your body.Written in a simple style so that everyone can understand and implement the wealth of resource contained in it, this book includes 64 satisfying and easy to make juicing recipes rated accord...