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What we celebrate today as crafts were once the means of everyday manufacture. The craftsman's product was not quaint, archaic, or merely decorativeit was essential. The tools that created these necessities speak to the early American spirit of ingenuity. Simple but resourceful, each tool was a beautiful, clever marriage of form and function, endowed with a life of its own, uniquely forged and perfectly suited for its purpose. The Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, the leading public attraction devoted to Pennsylvania German ("Pennsylvania Dutch") culture, works to preserve and carry the art of handcrafts into the modern age by educating and delighting visitors with their vast collection and craftwork demonstrators often in authentic dress, using period tools. With this book, the museum celebrates the hand tool as a medium of expression and salutes those who wield it with skillful pride. Through hundreds of images of these elegantly purposeful hand tools, the history of American handcraft is tracedsure to delight the luddite at heart.

This is an essential guide for all Witches wanting to go beyond the basic understanding of Magickal tools. Starting out with fundamental information on Magickal paraphernalia, their use and care, this book also examines how to intricately weave the Magickal with the mundane so that you can breathe Magickal energies into every aspect of your home, inside and out. Many students of Magick, after learning of the basic tools and their uses, forget to take the extra step of integrating Magick into their everyday existence. Witchcraft is not something you do; its a way of life. Magickal applications should not be confined to rituals or spell work. For the modern-day Witch, Magick does not just exist in the sanctuary or temple, but flows through the practitioner and into every space in and around the home. For both the beginning or practiced Witch.

"Over the course of five years, photographer David Vaala embedded himself in Ladakh, a mountainous corner of Northwestern India, to capture "Little Tibet": its landscapes, culture, and people. More than 150 full-color, large-format images focus on the rare cham dances, masked dance-dramas, which are a unique aspect of Tibetan Buddhism. Using a make-shift studio, Vaala documented these brief annual ceremonies that narrate the story of Buddhism's spread into Tibetan culture. The images immortalize the cham ceremonies with detailed portraits of individual cham characters from each of the four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism as practiced in Ladakh. Further celebrating this isolated region are spectacular landscapes that feature Ladakh's terrain, nestled between two great mountain ranges, the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Portraits reveal its nomadic people in intimate detail"--Jacket.

With over 600 color photographs of different beer companies' advertising trays and an engaging text, the reader follows the rise and fall of the lithographed tin beer tray from its 1890s introduction, through its golden years, and eventual post-World War II decline. Manufacturers of the trays, their artwork, and their marks are described in detail.

Vintage images and photos of existing garments display clothing and accessories for men, women, and children worn from 1925 to 1929. Includes evening wear, day wear, coats and jackets, loungewear, lingerie, and more. Fascinating timelines describe the latest trends and how they influenced clothing styles. A visual treat for fashion enthusiasts and history buffs!

Herman Miller, the company that led the office furnishings revolution, is a name synonymous with the best modern residential and contract furniture. Classics by super-designers Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson, Isamu Noguchi and others can still be purchased from the Herman Miller for the Home collection. Their designs, plus others, are described here in detail and shown in color and black and white photographs, with original drawings by Nelson and the famous Frykholm picnic posters. A current price guide is included.