Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts

TILE STYLE PAINTING & DECORATING YOUR OWN DESIGNS

Creative ideas for personalizing tiles to fit any theme, around the home, with 30 step-by-step projects shown in 300 inspirational photographs

by Marion Elliot

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This book contains a host of fabulous ways to decorate and paint tiles for use around the home. Following an introduction that explores the tradition of tile-making and major stylistic influences, the book then explains how to design with tiles, work with patterns and use them in distinctive and unusual ways. A comprehensive section on hand-painting tiles includes over 30 designs by contemporary artists, and step-by-step photographs guide you through every stage of creating your own. This is followed by practical projects inspired by a variety of themes and styles, on how to embellish door panels, a window recess, borders, table tops, and floor and wall areas in different rooms of the house.With a rich medley of artistic styles, crafting techniques and visual inspiration, this book will help the reader to create designed tiles from Art Deco to Byzantine style, and from Folk Art to the Arts and Crafts movement. TILE STYLE PAINTING & DECORATING YOUR OWN DESIGNS Creative ideas for personalizing tiles to fit any theme, around the home, with 30 step-by-step projects shown in 300 inspirational photographs Marion Elliot CLICK HERE TO READ THE WHOLE BOOK IN DIGITAL FORM

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Anness Publishing

Anness Publishing

At Anness Publishing we have just celebrated our 30th anniversary and we are one of the largest independent book publishers in the UK having produced over 3000 titles, many of which have sold a million copies. In total we have sold in excess of 225,000,000 heavily-illustrated books, with subjects spanning cooking and crafts, gardening, new age, reference, hobbies and transport as well as a lively and successful list of pre-school activity and home study reference books for children.   LORENZ BOOKS, our trade sales imprint for hardback non-fiction titles, has justifiably forged a reputation as one of the foremost imprints in illustrated publishing worldwide, with award-winning titles that cover the widest range of practical and reference subjects.   SOUTHWATER is our trade sales paperback imprint, renowned for its extremely competitive pricing policy, fantastic packaging and quality, and the depth of its list.   ARMADILLO is our trade imprint for illustrated children's fiction and non-fiction titles. We publish a wide range of traditional children's story books, pre-school and novelty books, as well as highly illustrated information books in the areas of science, history and natural history, and practical and creative project and activity books.

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  • Publisher/Imprint Anness Publishing / AQUAMARINE
  • Publication Date August 2013
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9781908991256
  • Publication Country or regionWorldwide
  • FormatHardback
  • Pages160
  • ReadershipGeneral
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Copyright Year2013
  • Dimensions206x168 mm
  • Reference Code6897

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