Paper Crafts Workshop: A Beginner's Guide to Techniques & Projects

Thanks to a variety of new products and fresh designs, this comprehensive look at an age-old craft offers exciting projects with contemporary style! The first in the Paper Crafts Workshop series, it showcases a wide variety of beautiful creative techniques to try. There’s paper tole, quilling, collage, femmage (collage art that incorporates textiles), parchment crafting, papier-mâché, and chicari (rice paper that is torn, colored, then glued down to form a picture). Each section includes a history of the form, and then presents all the modern tools and materials available for crafting. More than 40 exhaustively photographed projects are included, along with patterns.

Thanks to a variety of new products and fresh designs, this comprehensive look at an age-old craft offers exciting projects with contemporary style! The first in the Paper Crafts Workshop series, it showcases a wide variety of beautiful creative techniques to try. There’s paper tole, quilling, collage, femmage (collage art that incorporates textiles), parchment crafting, papier-mâché, and chicari (rice paper that is torn, colored, then glued down to form a picture). Each section includes a history of the form, and then presents all the modern tools and materials available for crafting. More than 40 exhaustively photographed projects are included, along with patterns.

Constance Ashmore Fairchild

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This is part of a series that includes Browning's Paper Crafts Workshop: Traditional Card Techniques. This book covers collage, quilling, paper tole, and other techniques for making cards and decorative items. The step-by-step projects are attractive, featuring Browning's usual attention to detail. For larger collections.