Craft Traditions of the World: Locally Made, Globally Inspiring

Description

This is the first comprehensive survey of crafts worldwide. The techniques used in a particular craft, from backstrap weaving and papercutting to metal casting and wood carving, as well as their history, are explained and illustrated, highlighting an incredible and dazzling diversity of styles. The book is organized geographically with six sections spanning the world, with each section subdivided into different crafts, showing nearly 90 altogether. Complete with over 500 illustrations, a glossary, bibliography, information on museums and an index, this survey is an essential document for anyone concerned with art, craft and decorative objects.

Bryan Sentance is an artist, illustrator and educator in the fields of arts and crafts and is author of Wood, Ceramics, Basketry and (with John Gillow) World Textiles. Polly Sentance has had a lifelong enthusiasm for ethnic crafts and has worked on several craft books as a researcher and photographer.

A colorful tribute to craftspeople around the globe, united in the quality and beauty of their creations--the first book to cover such a wide geography.-- "Creators.com" Surveys almost every conceivable type of craft - from Navajo jewelry and North African amulets to Tibetan tiger rugs and Amazonian pottery.... If your heart is lost to folk art and indigenous crafts, this is the volume for you.-- "American Style"