Inspired Cable Knits, Ellis once again borrows from traditional techniques to create an unprecedented collection of gorgeous, wearable garments. Using the basic technique of Fair Isle knitting (small geometric motifs worked with just two colours repeated in a row), she creates an earthy, modern and timeless collection of designs divided into chapters entitled Water, Air, Fire and Earth. Using unconventional placement of Fair Isle patterning, such as at the cuff or shoulder and asymmetrical or striped colour placement, Ellis creates a wide variety of moods, movements and graphic impact.
Designer Campbell acts as selector for 30 unusual beaded bag patterns, one in a series sponsored by the magazine. More than a dozen artists draw upon a variety of techniques, including knitting and crocheting, to produce purses in different design styles. There's a bead-decoupage plastic box, with decorations applied on top of special tape. Existing fabric purses are embellished with abstract art deco-like motifs or enhanced by highlighting existing patterns with beads for a three-dimensional impact.
Bleak HouseA complex plot of love and inheritance is set against the English legal system of the mid-19th century, with all its tortuous avenues and disguised resolutions. Here is the firm, Jarndyce and Jarndyce, the young orphan and ward of court Ester Summerson (who tells much of the story). As always, it is the skilled pen of Dickens himself that creates the momentum with his acute eye for both individual characters and their traits, and the backdrop of Victorian London.
In a remote fishing village in Japan, Daishinji the origami master creates a beautiful fish from one flat sheet of paper. But the fish says she is lonely, so the master creates a whole paper world for her -- ocean, seaweed, an octopus, and many other creatures. Still, the paper fish begs to be set free in a real ocean, to know the feel of water and understand the mysteries of the deep.
Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th and 17th Centuries cannot replace reading and enjoying the works of the writers and artists whose entries follow, but it will help general readers and student researchers become more informed and appreciative of the works discussed herein.We hope that this encyclopedia creates a critical and historical context for one of the world’s greatest ages of the arts and sciences.
