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    MY WAY OF SHELLING
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    MY WAY OF SHELLING

    Complete Book on how to start a sea shelling collecting hobby, includes how to dress, preferred time of day, how to collect sea shells, how to clean and prepare sea shells for display, and many more tips on how to enter this hobby.
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    Morpho: Mammals
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    Morpho: Mammals

    Improve your skills and techniques for drawing mammals!This small, portable book presents more than 500 drawings for 100 species of mammals, collected into categories of habitat - land, water, and air. In this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella...
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    The Beginner's Guide to Friendship Bracelets
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    The Beginner's Guide to Friendship Bracelets

    Celebrate your relationships and express your style with the ultimate guide to creating friendship bracelets!Friendship bracelets aren't just for summer camp anymore. They have exploded in popularity as a creative and thoughtful way to share a connection...
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    The 100 Day Project
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    The 100 Day Project

    A guide to choosing, completing, and sharing a 100-day creative project. There's a creative person inside every one of us! You don't have to consider yourself an artist to create and share fun or expressive work; sometimes all it takes is commitment...
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    Mastering Color Mixing with Watercolors

    Learn to create any color from a basic palette of just 11 colors!What if you could create any color you wanted, from a basic palette of just 11 colors? That is what the art of color mixing is all about. And once you master it, you will be able to create...
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    Watercolor Botanical Garden
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    Watercolor Botanical Garden

    Relax and dive into the ultimate guide to creating watercolour paintings of your favourite flowers! From bright red roses to deep green cacti, this gorgeous, easy-to-follow book will show how anyone can paint luminous watercolour flowers and botanicals...
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    The Official Unicorn SPiT User's Handbook

    Create colourful masterpieces with the official guide to using Unicorn SPiT!Unicorn SPiT is a paint, gel stain, and glaze concentrate all in one bottle! It creates a multifaceted, 3-dimensional effect on wood, glass, metal, fabric, pottery, wicker,...
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    Watercolor Snacks
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    Watercolor Snacks

    Relax and take a bite out of this tasty guide to creating watercolour paintings of your favourite treats!Watercolor Snacks is for food lovers, beginning artists, and anyone who wants to explore the world of watercolours through easy and accessible...
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    The Diamond Painting Guide and Logbook

    The ultimate guide to the hottest new crafting trend!Colorful, creative, and totally addictive, diamond painting has taken the crafting world by storm. Now, withThe Diamond Painting Guide and Logbookreaders can get expert advice and inspiration on how to...
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    LEGO with Dad
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    LEGO with Dad

    Break out the bricks, it's time for awesome family fun! LEGO bricks can be an endless source of imagination and joy for kids of all ages, and now dads can join in and help build amazing new creations. LEGO With Dad is the ultimate guide...
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    Morpho: Joint Forms and Muscular Functions
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    Morpho: Joint Forms and Muscular Functions

    In Morpho: Joint Forms and Muscular Functions, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human form. In this book, Lauricella offers a mechanical vision of the body, allowing us to see the important...
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    Morpho: Simplified Forms
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    Morpho: Simplified Forms

    This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the human body for artists to study and implement in their drawing work. In this book, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella simplifies the human body into basic, synthetic shapes and forms,...
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    Natural Balance
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    Natural Balance

    Natural Balance is a photographic compilation of the artistic works of Canadian sculptor Kun Foon Lee. His meticulously crafted sculptures are composed of various native woods and found natural objects such as pine cones, driftwood and dried wild flowers...
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  • Dead Theorists
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    Dead Theorists

    A satirical romp through academia's best ideasIn this turn-based card game, the ghosts of Simone De Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, and Karl Marx have returned from beyond the grave to complete a bit of unfinished business.Become the...
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  • The Magic Of Pockets
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    The Magic Of Pockets

    Transform your wardrobe with this step-by-step guide to sewing pockets into your favourite clothes. With simple instructions and line drawings, this book teaches six basic pockets, with suggested alterations to customise each pocket to your wardrobe...
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  • Radical Sewing
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    Radical Sewing

    Radical Sewing is a guide for learning how to make your own clothes. Kate introduces you to the basics and best practices of garment sewing for yourself at home, as well as advice and info on things you wouldn't even know to ask about sewing...
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  • Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus
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    Just a Bunch of Hocus Pocus

    Travel to Salem, Massachusetts, with this unofficial colouring book featuring 20 original, hand-drawn illustrations inspired by the sets of the cult-favourite film Hocus Pocus.Whether you streamthe movie every day starting September 1stor you just catch...
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  • Paisleys: Coloring for Artists
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    Paisleys: Coloring for Artists

    Discover the stress-reducingbenefits of coloring paisley designs.Originating in ancient Persia, the paisley design became popular in the West after its importation by Europeannations. The shawls on which the beautiful and intricate designs often appeared...
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    Corgi Crafts
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    Corgi Crafts

    Step-by-step crafts for corgi lovers everywhere!Corgis are the cute dogs that everyone is crazy for. From their adorable faces and their fluffy butts to their Royal connections, Corgis are top dog when it comes to cuteness and personality.Get your paws...
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    How to Make Voodoo Dolls
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    How to Make Voodoo Dolls

    A Fantastically Fun Guide to Making Homemade Voodoo Dolls! This unofficial guide to creating fun Voodoo String dolls is the first of is its kind. This book shows you step-by-step directions on how to make these fun and funky charms, similar to Watchover...
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    Paint Pouring
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    Paint Pouring

    The First Book on this Exciting New Art Form! Paint Pouring is a form of abstract art that uses acrylic paints with a runny (fluid) consistency. The acrylic paints react with each other when combined to make interesting and visually organic...
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    Sea Glass Crafts
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    Sea Glass Crafts

    Sea glass is the beautiful result of broken glass being naturally polished and smoothed by the ocean's currents for extended periods of time. These beautiful jewels become weathered and frosted from abrasion and erosion in salt water, giving them a...
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  • Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls
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    Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls

    In this groundbreaking coloring book you'll meet boys who bake and hug; girls who build drum sets and fix stuff; children who are tender, intense, vulnerable, courageous, zany, and gentle. This coloring book is for them and everyone who has ever wanted...
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    Paracord!
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    Paracord!

    Todd Mikkelsen's Paracord! offers a diverse collection of projects that utilize parachute cords-known around the world as paracord. Used by paratroopers and other military personnel during World War II, this lightweight nylon rope is now one of the most...
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    Native American Survival Skills
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    Native American Survival Skills

    W. Ben Hunt, whose Sioux name was Tasunka Witko, traveled throughout the Midwest, living with several Native American tribes, finally settling near the site of the last Sioux uprising. Here he provides step-by-step instructions and exact dimensions to...
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    Indian Basket Weaving
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    Indian Basket Weaving

    This work covers all of the basic techniques: preparation of the reed, splicing, introduction of color, shaping, finishing, and more. It also includes descriptions of a great variety of weaves-Lazy Squaw, Mariposa, Taos, Shilo, and others-each...
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    Brick Greek Myths
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    Brick Greek Myths

    Meet the Greek gods as you have never seen them--in LEGO form! Enjoy these fascinating myths, reimagined through elaborate scenes and colorful LEGO bricks in one thousand color photographs! This book shares a unique retelling of some of the most widely...
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    Fairy Gardening 101
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    Fairy Gardening 101

    Release your inner child and step into the fairy world by creating your own enchanted garden, no matter how much space you have! Fairy gardens are increasing in popularity and "Fairy Gardening 101" provides you with all the information necessary to...
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  • Paper Flyers
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    Paper Flyers

    Not just your average paper airplane, these are the dive bombing-est, barrel rolling-est, tail spinning-est handheld fighter jets to ever soar through the lower skies!Based on some of the the greatest military fighter planes to ever grace the sky,...
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    The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring Book

    The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring Book demystifies gender and pleasantly confuses your assumptions as you are drawn into its mesmerizing bricolage of patterns, folds, and whorls. Color away the false binaries between male and female, words...
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    The Palmer Pletsch Complete Guide to Fitting

    From tissue-fitting pioneers Pati Palmer and Marta Alto comes a new book whose title says it all: The Palmer/Pletsch Complete Guide to Fitting: Sew Great Clothes for Every Body! Fit Any Fashion Pattern. It's been 20 years since their last book about...
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    Fairy Gardening
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    Fairy Gardening

    Fairy gardens are enjoying an astonishing surge in popularity and now you can begin making your own enchanting miniature landscapes, complete with pint-sized accessories, diminutive plants, and quaint fairy figures. Gardeners Julie Bawden-Davis and...
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    Traditional Toolmaking
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    Traditional Toolmaking

    Bringing together the collective wisdom of a past generation of craftsmen, Traditional Toolmaking provides an in-depth record of the skills and techniques that made the mass production revolution of the twentieth century possible. When first published in...
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  • Watch Repair for Beginners
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    Watch Repair for Beginners

    First written by the definitive expert in 1957, Watch Repair for Beginners is the ideal book for anyone who wants to know how to fix their own watch. Learn what horology is; the basics of watch and clock repairing; the mechanics of a clock; how the...
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    Metalworking
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    Metalworking

    With over 2,000 black-and-white illustrations and clear, practical instructions given by expert handyman and blacksmith Paul N. Hasluck, Metalworking offers everything you need to know to turn a chunk of metal into a useful and well-crafted product. ...
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    Watercolor Lettering

    Learn to Paint Gorgeous Colourful LetteringWatercolour artwork is the perfect embellishment to take your brush pen lettering to the next level. This comprehensive how-to guide includes step-by-step instructions for basic and advanced watercolour...
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  • Paper Quilling Four Seasons Chinese Style
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    Paper Quilling Four Seasons Chinese Style

    Create stunning papercraft works of art for every season with this creative and easy-to-follow Chinese paper quilling book.Quilling, the art of coiling and shaping narrow paper strips into 3-D designs, has been popular with crafters for some time but the...
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  • Paper Flowers Chinese Style
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    Paper Flowers Chinese Style

    This Chinese papercraft book introduces readers to 24 unique paper flower patterns, with techniques for their folding and decoration, and tips for composition, color matching, floral vessels and display.The 24 patterns are designed to match the 24 solar...
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  • The Martin Parr Coloring Book!
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    The Martin Parr Coloring Book!

    Photography and pop-culture buffs, get out your crayons and colored pencils! Martin Parr's colorful and tongue-in-cheek photographs-his comedy of contemporary manners-have been transformed into a coloring book. Here is Parr's affectionate and hilarious...
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    The Baltimore Atrocities

    Praise for John Dermot Woods: Electric Literature 25 Best Novels of 2014 "Poignant and unsettling, and much like a good short story collection these tales resonate long after the book is closed."-Largehearted Boy "An accomplished artist and writer, in...
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  • The Creative Instigator's Handbook
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    The Creative Instigator's Handbook

    Flash mobs come and go, but purposeful creativity can change communities. Are you a creative (aspiring or otherwise) who is curious about how you can apply your skills to activist, socially engaged art projects? Whether you paint, sew, sing, build,...
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  • Yarn Bombing
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    Yarn Bombing

    WhenYarn Bombing was first published in2009, the idea that knitted and crocheted objects could be used as a politicalact of resistance was brand new. Ten years and thousands of public acts ofyarnarchy later, the art of knit and crochet graffiti has...
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    My Life as a Potter

    A gorgeous full-colour coffee table book celebrating the art of one of BC's finest potters, My Life as a Potter recounts Mary Fox's long journey to the peak of her craft. Part memoir, part coming-of-age story and part handbook for ceramicists, Fox's...
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    Cartonnage Basics & Beyond
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    Cartonnage Basics & Beyond

    Cartonnage is a lovely handmade art, originated in France long time ago and it has been revived around the world in the latest years. It is the "art of box making", out of cardboard, glue and fabric or paper. With this technique, we can make much more...
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  • At Home with Ikebana
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    At Home with Ikebana

    There are few things in this world as calming, refreshing, and beautiful as a flower. This truth has long been recognized in Japan, where Ikenaba-the ancient art of flower arranging-has been used for centuries to bring harmony to living spaces. Ikebana...
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    Knitting Children's Clothing
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    Knitting Children's Clothing

    More than 40 beautiful knits for babies, toddlers, and children up through age tenKnitting Children's Clothing is the one-stop guide for knitting a wide variety of clothing and accessories for your children in an economical way. With a range of modern to...
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    The FarmMade Craft Book
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    The FarmMade Craft Book

    A celebration of simple living skills.Not too long ago, handwork skills such as sewing a quilt, crocheting a washcloth, or embroidering a pillowcase were handed down from one generation to the next. Candle- and soap-making, blacksmithing, basket weaving,...
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    Beaded Jewelry Made Simple
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    Beaded Jewelry Made Simple

    Everything you need to know about making beaded jewelry.There's nothing quite like having the perfect piece of jewelry to complete an outfit. Now, imagine what it would feel like if you had the skills to create your own (because, let's face it, everyone...
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Best Books on Handicrafts, Arts & Crafts – Knitting, Embroidery, Pottery, DIY Crafts

Discover your next creative passion with BookLoop’s handicrafts, decorative arts, and crafts books. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned artisan, our range of books offers expert guidance on everything from DIY home décor projects and paper crafts to knitting, embroidery, pottery, calligraphy, and fabric painting.

At BookLoop, we understand how satisfying it is to create something with your own hands. That’s why our selection includes detailed tutorials, patterns, and ideas for a wide variety of creative pursuits. You’ll find books on how to make handmade gifts, create macramé wall hangings, or even start a small craft business.

Explore categories like: Knitting and Crochet Patterns for Beginners, DIY Embroidery Techniques and Designs, Pottery and Ceramics Step-by-Step, Calligraphy and Hand Lettering, Home Craft Ideas for Kids and Adults, Sustainable Crafts with Recycled Materials and more.

Looking to unwind and de-stress? Try mindful projects like adult colouring books, paper folding (origami), or watercolour painting. These artistic practices are proven to support relaxation and creative expression.

For those passionate about textile arts, explore books on quilting, sewing for beginners, fabric dyeing, and upcycling clothing. Many of our books also include materials lists, project photos, and beginner-friendly instructions to help you follow along easily at home.

If you're aiming to make your art a business, we also offer guides on craft marketing, branding handmade goods, and selling on Etsy or markets. From hobbyists to aspiring professional makers, BookLoop supports your creative journey with expert-led content.

Whether you're working with wood, yarn, clay, thread, or paper, BookLoop's books on handicrafts, decorative arts, and crafts will inspire and guide your next masterpiece.