Traditional Crafts Of Ireland

Author : David Shaw-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500511428
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Crafts of Ireland written by David Shaw-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows and describes the techniques used in weaving, masonry, calligraphy, furniture making, basket weaving, metalwork, pottery, and other Irish traditional crafts.

Author : Sybil Connolly
Publisher : Hearst Communications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Hands written by Sybil Connolly and published by Hearst Communications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally known fashion and home furnishings designer Sybil Connolly takes you into the studios and workshops of Ireland's most talented craftspeople.

Author : Anne O'Dowd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788550222
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Straw, Hay & Rushes in Irish Folk Tradition written by Anne O'Dowd and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ireland, the humble organic materials of straw, hay, and rushes were utilized throughout the centuries for a myriad of purposes. The heyday of their use as objects were the 18th and 19th centuries, when travelers to Ireland often wrote disparaging and derogatory accounts of what they saw: saddles of straw, sleeping on rushes, restricting animals with tethers and spancels of bark and animal hair, and wearing crudely-made straw and rush hats. Yet, the people who produced and utilized these objects were both ingenious and thrifty, making use of what they could find at no cost and using their learned skills to make objects which are now seen as having not only function but also beauty. Author Anne O'Dowd's powerful and lavishly illustrated book looks at the historical context of the making of a wide range of useful and ceremonial objects, as well as the folklore of belief and custom connected with the materials and practices. The thousand or so objects (made from straw, hay, and rushes) in the National Museum of Ireland's Irish Folklife Collection are the foundation of this study. The book is beautifully illustrated with color/black and white images, and it presents a fascinating insight into Irish crafts and rituals, along with their ancient origins. *** Straw, Hay and Rushes has been selected the winner of the 2015 ACIS Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture. *** "...an inherently fascinating history that will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community and academic library collections." -- Midwest Book Review, Reviewer's Bookwatch: March 2016, Julie's Bookshelf *** Librarians: ebook available [Subject: Social History, Irish Studies, Folklore, Art History]

Author : Joe Hogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781869857516
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Basketmaking in Ireland written by Joe Hogan and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claudia Kinmonth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781782054054
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 written by Claudia Kinmonth and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland's cultural history as to its history of furniture. Lavishly illustrated with a mass of the author's own photographs, mostly in colour and many previously unpublished, it draws on several decades of fieldwork, underpinned by academic research. It looks at influences such as traditional architecture, shortage of timber, why and how furniture was painted, and the characteristics of designs made by a range of furniture makers. The incorporation of natural materials such as bog oak, turf, driftwood, straw, recycled tyres or packing cases is viewed in terms of use, and durability. Chapters individually examine stools, chairs and then settles in all their ingenious and multi-purpose forms. How dressers were authentically arranged, with displays varying minutely according to time and place, reveal how some had indoor coops to encourage hens to lay through winter. Some people ate communally or slept in outshot beds, in the coldest north-west, this is illustrated through art as well as surviving objects. Hanging cradles and falling tables are discussed. A chapter is devoted to the hearth and the shrine, another focuses on small furnishings, such as horn spoons, wooden drinking vessels, basketry, tin-ware, aluminium, coarse earthenware and spongeware pottery.

Author : Sandra Counahan
Publisher : Mercier Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Irish Embroidery written by Sandra Counahan and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first how-to book for traditional Irish Embroidery

Author : Jo Lauria
Publisher : Potter Style
ISBN 13 : 0307346471
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Craft in America written by Jo Lauria and published by Potter Style. This book was released on 2007 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870991647
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasures of Early Irish Art, 1500 B.C. to 1500 A.D. written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1977 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vawn Corrigan
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788492013
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Tweed written by Vawn Corrigan and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To be human is to be involved with cloth.' Irish Tweed explores the history, the traditions, the patterns, the fashions and the legacy of Ireland's distinctive, natural woven fabric. Arising from ancient woven traditions of brat (cloak), léine (tunic), linen and poplin, tweed has evolved and reinvented itself many times to weave its beautiful lasting way into our future fashions and psyche.

Author : John Seymour
Publisher : DK
ISBN 13 : 9780789458476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Arts and Crafts written by John Seymour and published by DK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forgotten Arts & Craftsbrings together in a single absorbing volume two best-selling classics, The Forgotten Artsand Forgotten Household Crafts, written by the acknowledged 'Father of Self-sufficiency', John Seymour. Taking the reader on an evocative journey through the worlds of traditional craftspeople - from blacksmith to bee-keeper, wainwright to housewife - Seymour celebrates their honest skills, many of which have disappeared beneath the tread of progress.