Description
Very Good dust jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good binding is red cloth over boards with gilt stamping on the spine. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Compiled and adapted by the staff of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, Photographs by Frank Davis Line Drawings by Louis Luedtke.
About the book: (from the dust jacket
This how-to craft book contains easy to follow instructions for making 90 decorations, many based on traditional folk crafts. Utilizing natural materials–nuts, cones, pine needles. cornhusks, and shells–and other basic supplies readily available in most homes, the ornaments range from very simple ones that children will want to make to more complex creations that will appeal to and challenge adults interested in crafts.
Concise directions, delightful drawings, and a black and white closeup of each decoration will enable you to create these tree trims in your own home. Patterns are also provided The Yankee-Doodle peanut man, popcorn and red pepper garland, cookie-cutter stuffed animals, corncob pig, crocheted snowflake. and many, many more are inexpensive, fun for the whole family to make, and will give your Christmas tree a simple, old-fashioned, handcrafted look.
The ideas for these decorations were contributed by talented friends of Williams- burg’s Folk Art Collection and represent a typically American mix of places, national- ities, and traditions. Each December similar ornaments are featured on the large tree that serves as the focal point of the museum’s popular holiday exhibit. At Mrs. Betty Ford’s request, the 1975 White House Christmas tree was trimmed with many of these same ornaments, all inspired by nineteenth-century crafts.
The directions were compiled by Catherine Gibbons, and the contributors’ names accompany each set. Introduction and commentary are by Beatrix T. Rumford, director of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection The charming step-by-step drawings are from the pen of Louis Luedtke, a talented Williamsburg artist
Frank Davis, a staff photographer for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, provided the color and black and white pictures.
