Dogs in Jumpers - 12 Practical Knitting Projects by Debbie Humphreys
$22.99 NZD
Category: Craft & Hobbies
Whether you live in the city or the country, and whether your dog is little or large, Dogs in Jumpers is filled with knitting patterns to keep your dog warm this winter. Premier dog attire and accessories company, Redhound for Dogs, share their expert advice and knowledge to make sure you can always ki ...Show more
Chyka Celebrate: Inspired entertaining for every occasion by Chyka Keebaugh
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art, Style, Living
In Celebrate, Chyka Keebaugh celebrates occasions from around the world and shares tips, inspiration and suggestions for hosting the perfect themed event. Covering occasions as diverse as Chinese New Year, Eid, Jewish New Year, Mother's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve and Easter, Chyka show ...Show more
Leatherwork and Tanning by Lynn Huggins-Cooper
$39.99 NZD
Category: Craft & Hobbies | Series: Heritage Crafts and Skills Ser.
This book offers a whistle-stop guide to the history of leathercraft and tanning. The story begins in prehistory when people discovered, perhaps by chance, that skins exposed to smoke or accidentally soaked in autumnal puddles lasted longer. Skins were a valuable resource, used for everything from cloth ...Show more
Jock's Country by David Henshaw
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
A long-time resident of Tamahere in Waikato, David communicated with farmers for more than 40 years through his cartoons - his main character, Jock, is recognised as a national identity. His cartoons appeared in the New Zealand Farmer for 34 years and on the Jock calendar for the past 17 years. The cart ...Show more
Wanted - The Search for the Modernist Murals of E. Mervyn Taylor by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith (ed.)
$39.99 NZD
$79.99 (50% off)
Category: NZ Art | Reading Level: very good
Mervyn Taylor - wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer - was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 1960s. He was highly connected to modernism and nationalism as it was expressed in New Zealand art and literature of the period. In the 1960s he created twelve ...Show more
Do It Yourself Painting Skills by Mike Lawrence
$9.99 NZD
$12.99 (23% off)
Category: Craft & Hobbies
This is a practical hands-on guide to painting any area in the home, with over 200 step-by-step pictures. It is an instant guide to basic techniques, including preparing surfaces, filling cracks, and the best way to apply paints and varnishes. It is a useful advice about the various types of paint such ...Show more
Oscar De La Renta - His Legendary World of Style by Andre Leon Talley
$49.99 NZD
$89.99 (44% off)
Category: Fashion
A sumptuous monograph tracing the life and legacy of fashion luminary Oscar de la Renta. In October 2014 one of the fashion world's champions, Oscar de la Renta, passed away, a great loss brightened by the innumerable successes of his half-century reign. The acclaimed fashion designer dressed first ladi ...Show more
Zentangle by Jane Marbaix
$19.99 NZD
Category: Craft & Hobbies
Aimed at beginners, this book shows how beautiful images can be created from repeating patterns. Accredited Zentangle teacher Jane Marbaix demonstrates a range of patterns one step at a time and offers a sourcebook of her own designs to inspire tanglers to try something different. Proven to reduce stres ...Show more
The Wedding Dress: 300 Years of Bridal Fashions by Edwina Ehrman
$85.00 NZD
Category: Fashion
Accompanying an exhibition at Te Papa, The Wedding Dress: 300 Years of Bridal Fashions draws on the Victoria and Albert Museum's superb collection of fashionable wedding dresses, as well as photographs, letters, memoirs, newspaper accounts and genealogical research to explore the history of the wedding ...Show more
101 Uses for a Pencil by Peter Gray
$14.99 NZD
$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Craft & Hobbies
There is no simpler or more familiar tool than the pencil. Virtually everyone owns one, but how often is it used to its full potential? This thought provoking title will guide the artist in you through a multitude of ways in which to make maximum creative use of the pencil, improve your notation, drawin ...Show more
Lazy Days: Painting the Kiwi Lifestyle by Graham Young
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Art
The vibrant paintings in this gorgeous book capture that bright sparkling quality of our New Zealand light. Graham Young portrays elements of the Kiwi lifestyle against a backdrop of familiar landscape – the corner dairy, old baches on the coast, boatsheds, villas and country barns. There is always evid ...Show more