Handmade Style: Mexico: Simple Projects and Inspiration for the Home [Paperback]

Karin Hossack (Author)

Book Description

Series: Handmade Style | Publication Date: December 1, 1999

The immensely popular traditional crafts of Mexico fuse brilliant colors and textures in a thoroughly unique fashion. Handmade Style: Mexico offers 20 beautiful projects designed to brighten any home from tissue and foil candle wrappings and terra-cotta cactus pots to stenciled ceramic tiles and punched tin wall trimmings. This delightful book features illustrated instructions as well as inspiring photographs of finished projects, leading readers through the creative process with ease.

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About the Author

Karin Hossack is a writer and artist whose work includes photography, ceramics, bookbinding, and jewelry making. She has designed projects featured in a number of magazines and lives in London.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811825671
• ISBN-13: 978-0811825672
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,586,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great variety of projects, July 28, 2000

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Angel Lee "Liocorno Amethyst Moonstone" (Cleveland, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Handmade Style: Mexico: Simple Projects and Inspiration for the Home (Paperback)

This book takes me back to the time I spent in Mexico a few years ago. It features a variety of decorative home accessory projects for people with different skills from sewing to woodworking. I love the vibrant colors and variety of designs offered here. The book is in full-color and there are step-by-step instructions, accompanied by photos, for each of the 20 projects. Conveniently there are templates and a resource list in back.

Some of my favorite projects include brightly colored circular woven table mats, a copper wire fruit basket, a decorative hot chocolate whisk, cactus pots, a tin wall border, beautiful cut paper candles, an Aztec floor runner and a mosaic heart and spiral pattern table top.

Three projects requiring basic sewing skills and a sewing machine are a cross-stitch table cloth (cross-stitches are painted), appliqued bath towels and drawn-thread curtain. Two others including pillowcases decorated with roses and a butterfly blanket require basic embroidery skill. If you wish to make a lime waxed shelf or a beautiful suede covered stool you will also need basic woodworking skills and power tools such as a jigsaw and an electric drill.

These projects require a little time and effort but none of them are too difficult and the instructions are great. They will make some spectacular and unique accent pieces for your home.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful original ideas, April 21, 2001

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Kathy Cano-Murillo "The Crafty Chica" (Phoenix, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Handmade Style: Mexico: Simple Projects and Inspiration for the Home (Paperback)

Being a Latina artist, I was very impressed at the uniqueness of these projects. Each one is a twist on a traditional method. They are easy to read and follow and offer a bit of history about where they came from. If I had any complaint it would be that I didn't have time to finish all the projects in one weekend! That's a good thing though, because now I can stay busy for quite a while ;-)