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Printing by Hand: A Modern Guide to Printing with Handmade Stamps, Stencils, ...
by Lena Corwin
Amazon Price: $18.15
Customer Reviews:
» Simple, inspiring projects with modern designs. To me it seemed not too consistent, but it is good enough for the basics of printing. The photos and clean design (of the book and the projects) are the...

» It was a pleasure to receive this book in the mail. Right from the first page it was easy to follow, interesting, and the pictures are beautiful and motivating. I am looking forward to teaching my lit...

» I bought this book because it's full of information about printing on fabric.Can't wait to start.I have found everything in one place.

» This book turned out to be even more helpful and inspiring than I had hoped for. It answered many questions relating to different varieties of simple hand printing techniques such as: which inks, pap...

» This book is fabulous! The projects all vary in skill level and time allotment. Lena Corwin gives step-by-step instructions so detailed anyone could follow. Lena's patterns are so fresh and beautiful....

Lotta Prints: How to Print with Anything, from Potatoes to Linoleum
by Lotta Jansdotter
Amazon Price: $19.95
Customer Reviews:
» This is a 15 minute guide to what's already commonly known about
making prints. Nice visuals, but not worth purchasing; makes for a great library book moment.


» I love Lotta Jansdotter's style. Simple and beautiful. Reminds me of my trip to Denmark. Definitely worth it.

» I love this book for the ideas! It's fun to look through for the patterns and design ideas that are within. It gives great instructions on numerous products and many printing techniques. I love that i...

» Had a lot of great ideas, esy to ready, great pictures. If you have never stamped before, this is agreat book to start with, simple and exact, makes it look so simple and fun.

» I saw a How-To video of this artist on [...] and subsequently quickly went out and bought this book. It is a great how to and gives you a lot of inspiration to get out there and start making your own ...

The Printed Picture
by Richard Benson
Amazon Price: $37.80
Customer Reviews:
» The technological evolution of distributing identical copies of a single picture has dramatically impacted upon and made practical the phenomena of mass culture. Author Richard Benson presents an info...

Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs)
by Ernst Haeckel, Olaf Breidbach, Richard Hartmann, Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Amazon Price: $16.50
Customer Reviews:
» Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3G0SX0PAICYS7 Video shows the size of the book, flipping through a lot of the plates and rambl...

» a brilliant draftsman and scientist, heackel shows us that the natural world is not only incredibly beautiful, but weirder than anything you can invent.
there are larger and more expensive editi...

» The following is Amazon's description of this book:
Paperback: 139 pages
Publisher: Prestel Publishing (August 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3791319906
ISBN-13: 9...

» This book is full of illustration of organisms you can find on nature.I repeat, it is not fantasy, these beautiful illustration are drawings of things that are right there, sometimes too small to see ...

» Amazing images of pollen spores, bats' faces, moths, diatoms, and more - drawn by the master. Ernst Haeckel's prints were a huge influence in the Art Nouveau movement, and the introduction to the book...

301 Inkjet Tips and Techniques: An Essential Printing Resource for Photograph...
by Andrew Darlow
Amazon Price: $31.49
Customer Reviews:
» I took a one day workshop with Andrew Darlow in August and found it very helpful. His book is a great resource for any photographer who wants to learn more about digital output. Too many of us have ...

» Very well done book. With great detail. Just what everybody exactly need when work with photo printing

» This is an extraordinary book. Even as printing technology advances, it will remain the standard by which books on ink jet printing will be measured. If you are interested at all in printing photogr...

» Terrific detail, no skimping on information. Well written so everyone can understand, beginners to experts.

» I bought this book in conjunction with one of Andrew Darlow's excellent printing seminars. The books is well organized, laid out with text and technically annotated photographs. I found the discus...

460 Iris Folded Cards to Make: The Complete Iris Folding Compendium
by Maruscha Gaasenbeek, Tine Beauveser
Amazon Price: $17.13
Customer Reviews:
» I've already gone through this book twice. The second time I put flags on pages that had designs I want to do. Then I decided to use my painter's tape and work right on the page in the book. I have...

» This book is good because it begins with the basics, but can be used by someone who has already had experience with iris folding. It also encourage one to be "Green".

» This book is awesome! Patterns and examples abound. Directions simple enough that a child can follow with ease. Very inspirational, just writting this review makes me want to go and do some more! ...

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Very pleased with this, the patterns are very clear, well designed and easy to follow. I look forward to making many cards using this technique.

» I was so excited when I got this book. It has every pattern you will ever need.

Print Liberation: The Screen Printing Primer
by Nick Paparone, Jamie Dillon, Luren Jenison
Amazon Price: $16.49
Customer Reviews:
» Not a practical book if you really want to learn more about "How To Screen Print".

» Page for page "Print Liberation, The Screen Printing Primer" is by far the best introduction to screen printing out there. Excellent color photographs and illustrations, materials lists, step-by-step ...

» This book includes all the information you need to try some basic screen printing. The instructions are detailed enough to lead a complete novice through the screen printing process without being redu...

» This is a fantastic purchase for both beginner and experienced silkscreeners, but is particularly great for those wanting to get started. The book is inspiring and interesting, providing detailed step...

» This book is a great primer on screen printing! It is kind of like "T-shirts for Fun & Profit"-lite. This book is particularly useful for the weekend warrior or part-time entrepreneur. The step-by-ste...

Art Forms From The Ocean: The Radiolarian Atlas Of 1862
by Ernst Haeckel
Amazon Price: $16.50
Customer Reviews:
» As an artist I am always trying to enlarge my "visual vocabulary." The symmetry and unlimited variation in sea forms are exquisite in their perfection. This volume has beautiful illustrations.

» Radiolarians are a total blank to the majority of people, yet these remarkable builders of glass houses (microscopic to be sure) abound in the world's oceans. Ernst Haeckel, the Nineteenth Century Ge...

The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy
by Gustave Dore
Amazon Price: $10.17
Customer Reviews:
» Book arrived in promised condition, and in a timely fashion. I would buy from this seller again.

» This guy is pretty much in the same league as Jack Kirby. Whereas Kirby's all soft lines and images pancaked on the page, Dore looks like he's carving his cartoons into a tree. And all these scary dem...

» The quality of this book - along with an amazingly affordable price tag - quickly persuaded me to pick up a copy. Its really everything you could ask for in an art book;

The pictures are...

» I have looked at a variety of Dante artists. Some well known and some are not. Suloni Robertson, John Flaxman, Willam Blake, Sandro Botticelli, Sandow Birk, Herb Roe. Do a google search to look at the...

» The Illustrations from the 1st canto in the Inferno to the last of Paradiso are great because they help as a visual aid when reading the Divina Commedia. One can really see how and in which ways Dore...

Standard Catalog Of World Paper Money, General Issues (Standard Catalog of Wo...
by George Cuhaj
Amazon Price: $50.40
Customer Reviews:
» This book is very well for inform on bills in a world! Pictures, year, price...Very complete!

» I use this book only, I don't know better source for basic informations for collectors.

» It was a pleasure for me to order from you. The catalog is great and I got it delivered in no time. The service was GREAT!!!

» The new edition of this catalogue is an extremely disappointing effort in terms of keeping up to date with price developments. A majority of the countries covered in this update have not been reviewed...

» An excellent catalogue. The only disturbing problem is that there are several mismatchs between pictures and descriptions. Unfortunately more frequent than in earlier issues.