Book Description
A Pattern Garden gives us the tools for creating our own highly satisfying garden spaces. Easton identifies 14 garden patterns that she sees as fundamental to successful design and that will turn any landscape into a memorable and rewarding retreat. This book will help you identify what pleases you, and why, and provide inspiration and direction in the planting and layout of your own garden. Discussions of essential patterns, such as the creation of paths or the incorporation of water into the garden, are complemented by concrete advice about plant selection.
Customer Reviews:
Valerie's new book is brilliant.......2007-06-02
Whether one is an experienced gardener, or new to this world, Valeries's book explores all the nuances of garden design as well as practical information on gardening. All of this is enhanced by the exquisite photographs.
Not A Pattern Language.......2007-05-07
I completely agree with Mr. Keith Davitt's review below. I am a huge fan of Christopher Alexander's books. A Pattern Language is an amazing book. It takes you through history and to many places around the planet to explor the timeless ways of creating living spaces. I can see this book being helpful if one is not familiar with garden design. But if you are looking for a book that explors the deep relationship of humans to their living spaces, try another book- The Inward Garden, which I think comes much closer to Alexander's books, and the photos in which are truly stunning. You might want to look through it in a bookstore to see if it's a helpful book for you before buying it.
My other criticism is that the photos in this book sometimes does not fully support the text. For example, on the pages which talks about overhead structures, there's a photo of a pot by a wooden bench, with notes talking about pot by a bench. There are a lot of other pictures that are not quite special or beautiful.
Creating Gardens Where We'll Love to Spend Time.......2007-03-28
Thanks to Val Easton's new book, A Pattern Garden, I'll be happily adding mysterious destinations and some fanciful surprises to my old garden this summer. Fun!
This is such a good book; it's informative, beautiful (inspiring photography), but best of all are it's suggestions and encouragement for gardeners to turn their yard space into intriguing areas where they and their families will love spending outdoor time.
Another Superb Book from Ms. Easton.......2007-03-07
We have been following Ms. Easton's garden writings for years in newspapers, magazines and her other acomplished manuscripts Artists In Their Gardens and Plant Life. We have found her writings to be both informative and entertaining, a hard combination for many authors but critical to the reader. Her newest book, A Pattern Garden, weaves a rich tapestry of information and soulful thinking. The garden is a place of sanctuary and highly personal. Ms.Easton takes the essential 14 "patterns" of our gardens and helps us clarify their role and importance. She offers us tools to both strengthen and personalize an existing garden and lay the foundation to build a new one. In reading this book we felt empowered to try new things and be adventuresome. It also gave us a greater understanding and enjoyment of our own garden.
Besides all the practical information offered, A Pattern Garden is a must read for anyone who wants to have a greater appreciation of their connection with the garden, nature, and the role it plays in their life.
Essential Reading.......2007-03-07
There have been numerous occasions throughout my gardening career- in my garden and while working in others- that I have turned to garden design books for inspiration and guidance. Too often it has been case that these books- many now considered classics- illuminate principles of design that are inapplicable to the average gardener, i.e., the gardener who cannot afford a top end designer. From the moment I opened Val Easton's book, I discovered at last a book which was charged with bursts of creative esprit, an inviting and understandable format and an engaging dialogue between Easton and her readers. In concert with outstanding and well interpreted photography, I believe this book should find its way into every serious gardeners library.
Customer Reviews:
Don't stop at the black and white color wheel . . . ........2007-03-30
Once I got over the fact that there is a line drawing (black & white) of a color wheel, with the names of the colors printed around it . . . I decided that this is an extremely informative book. I'm used to quilting books that dazzle with color on every page - but not this one. There is a mid section of 12 or 15 pgs. with gorgeous quilts, and a description by each of why the quilt "works". This book has well written explanations and drawings of balance, proportion, hues, tints, shapes, etc. and how each of these make us "feel" when used in different ways. Wolfrom is very, very detailed and thorough in the steps of planning a landscape quilt - from conception of an idea (she suggests excersizes to learn personal preference) to various forms of quilting the finished product to give it more impact. When I talked myself past that black and white color wheel, I decided this is an excellent book. A book to learn by, not to drool over. Color in the wheel (and a catchier cover) would have earned it 5 stars.
Book Description
Country landscape scenes featuring barns, churches, rustic mills, and mountain valleys are especially attractive when executed in the relief style of woodcarving. This guide features 32 patterns and step-by-step instructions for carving them. How to map out levels in a pattern, trace pattern levels onto the blank, work roughed-out levels, and carve texture for foliage and buildings are explained with accompanying illustrations to clarify each technique. Also included are ways to create three-dimensional foreground elements and dry brush finished carvings with oil paints.
Customer Reviews:
Carving Landscapes.......2006-03-13
If you are into carving landscapes then you will learn a good deal about carving techniques. Learn how to carve various materials used in structures you are trying to represent. Lora Irish is one of my favorite designers and I feel this book is worth its cost. I cannot over emphasize the need for quality carving tools and proper procedures for keeping them sharp.
What you see is not quite what you get.......2003-08-17
I initially chose this book because of it's very nice illustrations. My mistake was in buying this as my first relief book. I assumed that the step-by-step instructions for the sample project, Mountain View Farm, would be geared towards beginners since it was, after all, broken into steps with corresponding photos. Not quite.
Now, in her defense, Lora Irish does cover the basics of relief carving, however, I found it to be too general for a beginner. Also, I often found myself tripping over slight contradictions between what the author instructs you to do and what she actually does. This is especially a problem if you use the picture on the back cover for reference, which is a slightly different version of this project. Carvers more familiar with the process might not have a problem here, but for a beginner who hangs on every detail of the example, like myself, he or she might become frustrated.
Lastly, I would have preferred that the entire lesson's scene been included in the process (the waterwheel, water, and reflection elements are left out) so as to have an opportunity to get familiar with creating the water's illusion of depth and the use of reflections. The good news is, the picture on the back cover is the full scene, you'll just have to figure out how to do the waterwheel yourself.
In conclusion, if you have a bit of carving experience and are looking for a refresher course or beautifully illustrated patterns this book is worth looking into; if you are looking for a beginner's guide to relief carving, you might want to look elsewhere.
Neither fish nor fowl.......2001-04-28
While I am a great fan of L.S. Irish as an artist, her newest book falls far short of being of the same caliber as her art. If it is intended for novices, it lack sufficient detail. If it is for intermediate or advanced carvers, it wastes far too many pages on the basics. It has 32 nice patterns which are mostly variations on the theme of old barns in the woods. One of the projects in the book can be downloaded from her website FREE. Last of all, many of the photos are in color. However, it looks as if the photographer used daylight film under incandescent lights because all of the photos are yellow-red. This makes it impossible to appreciate the sections on painting the carvings. All in all, I cannot recommend this book.
Book Description
You are invited on a journey into making landscape quilts and providing a bridge from traditional quiltmaking to scenic interpretation. The author leads you through a series of simple exercises designed to help you really see what you are looking at, to decide which images you favor, and to interpret them in fabric. Various simple quiltmaking techniques are combined in a building-block manner to make a fabric picture. Traditionally pieced blocks, whether sewn by hand or machine, are used to create large areas of a landscape. Sky, water, and land masses are made of these pieced sections, and the wonderful geometric shapes lend a subtle texture.She then shows how to add appliqu shapes and details to the background. In Your First Project, a very simple composition of trees, she takes you step by step through the process, then shows you how to add the 'Wow Factors,' those components that fool the eye into accepting illusion. 80 pages + large pull-out pattern section. AUTHORBIO: Mary's work hangs in private and public collections around the United States and Japan, and she has received recognition locally and nationally. Her quilts have been exhibited in numerous quilt shows and art shows from coast to coast, and she has pieces in the permanent collections of the White House and the Museum of the American Quilter's Society. Mary writes articles on technique, inspiration, and other professional topics, but her favorite creative activity is making quilted landscapes.
Customer Reviews:
Necessary Book for learning landscapes.......2006-07-15
This is a clear and concise book.A good choice if you ever wanted to learn to do landscape quilts. The instructions and pictures make it very easy to understand. Her method for making and attaching bindings is worth having the book besides all the other useful information.
Book Description
Piecing and stitching a landscape adds one-of-a-kind appeal to any garment, accessory, or home dec item. From dramatic mountain vistas to tranquil lake views, any scene can be quickly and easily stitched to create a highly personal wearable or individualized accessory.
From fabric choices to decorative stitches to finishing details, this book guides readers to successfully add landscapes to jackets, vests, wall hangings, picture frames, tote bags, purses, pillows, and greeting cards. Everything is clearly and simply explained, from basic supplies, machine set-up, thread and fabric choices, and the construction process, to finishing details. Patterns for sample scenes are included.
-Decorative stitches & threads.
-Embellishing techniques.
-How to create a design.
-The construction process.
Customer Reviews:
Fabric Landscapes by Machine.......2002-02-08
I got a few unexpected bonus' with this book. It has a pattern to make a vest with a landscape as well as several patterns. The work is explained and the color pictures were a help in understanding the methods outlined in the book. Good graphics as well as examples are in the book.
great wearable art ideas.......2001-07-29
My book arrived just 2 days ago and I stayed up late scouring it from cover to cover (had to wait until the kids were in bed for quiet time). I'm not much into quilting, but love creating unique and unusual things, especially wearable art. This book is perfect. If you are a quilter you'll love the ideas to take your hobby to the next level. If you are more of a sewer, you'll be impressed by the detailed (and simple)instructions that make this form of quilting quick, easy and intriguing. To top it off, the book comes with 4 of the authors very own landscape quilt patterns plus another pattern for turning a lanscape quilt into a vest. The patterns alone are worth the cost of the book.
I ran out today and purchased fabrics to make a woodland scene and can't wait to get started. I also happen to be lucky enough to have a top of the line sewing and embroidery machine, so I can use it to further embellish my landscape quilt. But to be honest, with all the great ideas, techniques, thread and fabric suggestions the author has given, you do not need one of these fancy machines to make a work of art. This is a neat, neat book!
Customer Reviews:
Quilted Landscapes:Machine-Embellished Favric Images.......2007-01-15
I recieved the book in Excellent condition. The content wasn't what I expected though.
Impressive & inspirational quilts, beautiful.......2000-05-03
This is wonderful book for an intermediate to advanced quilter who wants to create impressive landscape quilts that are true works of art.
First the basic method is demonstrated in detail including many illustrations. The main technique used to make the quilts is string piecing. Six beautiful projects follow. Patterns for each are found in the back.
The book places a lot of emphasis on embellishment. Textured yarns, metallic threads, and fusible web as well as organzas & tuttle overlays help to decorate the quilts. Fabric painting and pieced applique are also used.
As both a paper crafter and a quilter I also found this book a great inspiration for making collages. The tips on color & selecting a scene were very helpful. The large gallery in the middle is worth the price of the book alone.
Inspiring!.......2000-03-25
What a great book to stretch you creativity. It goes beyond traditional quilting and inspires you with techniques you wouldn't normally think of using. Great book
A Fresh New Look at Quilting.......2000-03-24
When I first saw this book, I was thrilled. As I first flipped through the numerous colored photographs of quilts (submitted from students in the author's classes), I became inspired after many "dry" months. Just looking at the photos of the different landscape quilts keeps me busy for quite a while. They are very colorful and exciting.
On the other hand, the text makes great reading. The author is more into the artistic side of quilting, which allows for less technical perfection. I like that.
Using pre-sewn strips of fabric cut into pieces which are then pieced together, very interesting skies and scenery are created. The method is efficient and neat. Fabric weaving is another of many facets of this interesting book.
This book contains many different techniques on adding details to your quilts from frayed rough fabric (grasses and bushes) to chopped up fabric pieces held into place with tulle.
Detailed instructions are included with many Artist's Tips. I found these especially helpful.
The illustrations are very clear and helpful and the overall tone of the book is encouraging and inspirational. I feel as if the author is indeed with me as a teacher in a personal class.
I fell in love with this book when I saw it and although I was overwhelmed with the pictures at first, after reading it, I am anxious to start creating my fabric world as soon as I can.
If you are looking for something a little different than usual quilting books that allows for great creativity to express yourself, this book is for you!
Book Description
This is a new text aimed expressly at the student taking a course in landscape ecology, written by very well-known practitioners and pioneers in this new field of ecological analysis. Landscape ecology has emerged during the past two decades as a new and exciting level of ecological study. Environmental problems such as global climate change, land use change, habitat fragmentation and loss of biodiversity have required ecologists to expand their traditional spatial and temporal scales and the widespread availability of remote imagery, geographic information systems, and desk top computing has permitted the development of spatially explicit analyses. In this new text book this new field of landscape ecology is given the first fully integrated treatment suitable for the student. Throughout, the theoretical developments, modeling approaches and results, and empirical data are merged together, so as not to introduce barriers to the synthesis of the various approaches that constitute an effective ecological synthesis. The book also emphasizes selected topic areas in which landscape ecology has made the most contributions to our understanding of ecological processes, as well as identifying areas where its contributions have been limited. Each chapter features questions for discussion as well as recommended reading.
Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended.......2006-03-03
One of the most comprehensive landscape ecology materials existing on the market nowadays. Ideal for landscape ecology beginners or for for anybody who wonders what fragmentation, ecological processes and patterns are.
Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice.......2005-09-21
This is an excellent book that intrigues the informed while explaining complex information in such a way that novice readers can follow along.
Valuable Summary.......2003-01-08
I use this book as the recommended text for both undergraduate and graduate courses in landscape ecology. It has a useful synthesis of recent trends in the field and particularly good chapters on scale, landscape metrics and disturbance. The accompanying CD has jpeg versions of most of the figures, which is handy for preparing lectures, although the quality of some of the digital images from CD (especially graphs and line charts) isn't so great. The literature review is thorough without being overwhelming, so it's a good entry point into the professional literature in most areas of landscape ecology. My main criticism is that the writing style is somewhat dense; I didn't find it easy to read from cover to cover. People looking for a cursory introduction to the field may do better to start with an alternative text. As a teaching and reference text for landscape ecology, however, I think this book is the best available.
A Must-Have for Anyone into Landscape Ecology or GIS.......2002-10-20
If the credentials of the authors didn't convince of the quality of this book, I'm not sure I can. I will say that I have read and re-read the book several times, and that it's a vital resource in our laboratory. From the various issues of scaling to what analyses do what, this book is an excellent resource of theories and technologies involved in Landscape Ecology.
Cesar Landscape.......2001-08-31
It is a good book that help us to maintain an equilibrium of the landscape when we mad some changes to it. The content will be usefull for different areas of study, maily ecology, but also here in San Luis Potosi we have a class that we call landscape ecology. This class is the architecture carrer. We got many information from the book.
Book Description
Every year, Americans spend some $38 billion on lawn care. But you don't need to hire a crew of landscapers to have an attractive and eye-catching front yard all that's required is a lawnmower, a few inexpensive items from the hardware store, and a little creativity. Lawnscapes teaches readers how to mow artistic masterpieces directly into their lawns everything from checkerboard squares, hearts, and bull's-eyes to Christmas trees, Celtic knotwork, and much more.
Gardening expert David Parfitt includes patterns for 20 different designs, plus tips on creating your own masterpieces. Packaged with an Astroturf cover, Lawnscapes is the perfect gift for dads across America.
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- Clearly inspiring!
- Ms. Williams gives the stone lovers among us a gift.
- A book which beautifully answers some fundamental questions
- Amazing reproduction of outstanding marble pavements.
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Precious, brilliantly colored stones arranged by skilled artisans in intricate patterns that follow the designs of master architects have been an important aspect of Italian architecture for centuries. In this book, Kim Williams provides a detailed overview of these beautifully designed pavements. From the second-century Pantheon in Rome to the twentieth-century Santa Maria Novella train station in Florence, Williams traces the evolution of pavement design, points to characteristic design elements of each age, and explains the various techniques and materials used.
Analyzing the pavements in relationship to their particular architectural context, she shows how these designs heighten the architectural experience and provide a key to understanding architects' intentions. Williams also offers an in-depth analysis of individual pavements in order to shed light on the proportional systems, geometric constructions, symbolism and historical sources for the design. Through her accurately measured, exquisitely rendered drawings of the pavements, many of which have never before been documented, these pavements are given their full due as architecture and craft.
Customer Reviews:
Clearly inspiring!.......2007-05-24
I discovered this book searching for information on Cosmati designs and was delighted with it when it arrived. After looking at murky photos and trying to understand garbled descriptions of geometry in other books, I appreciated the fabulous painstaking in-plane illustrations. The "reader-friendly" (at least to an artist) explanations of mathematics and geometry were an enlightening bonus. This book will be particulary helpful to designers and others who want clarity, great presentation, and concise information.
Ms. Williams gives the stone lovers among us a gift........1999-10-23
This stunning look into pavement design of the past 2000 years is brilliantly executed--from the detailed drawings to the in-depth analysis of mathematical principles and design principles/patterns, this book is a treat for my eyes and my mind. In working on my PhD in the stone and paving methods of Rome (and beyond), I've found Ms. Williams book fills a hole in academia left vacant for far too long. You love architecture/history/church building/math/ or design? You must have this gorgeous gift.
A book which beautifully answers some fundamental questions.......1998-09-12
Wonderfully conceived, researched and illustrated, this is a book which beautifully answers some of the fundamental questions as to the why and how of paving. When I walk through the majestic spaces mentioned in Ms. Williams book I will do so with my curious eyes glued to the ground for a change. Truly a fantastic book; a good read be it for the layman or as a much needed point of reference for the learnèd. The illustrations are almost as good as being there.
Amazing reproduction of outstanding marble pavements........1998-02-08
This is a must book for history students of the Roman and Tuscan buildings. Contains 58 outstanding drawings of examples of Italian art pavemennt and the text explains them in detail. All architects and designers need a copy.
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