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Bone Carving by Stephen Myhre
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft
Bone carving is as old as civilisation itself. Even some of the oldest bone artifacts have decorative features that are clearly not necessary for their functional nature, showing that there have been complex cultural aspects to the carving of bone since earliest times. The first settlers of Aotearoa bro ...Show more
Crafty Girl's Road Trip by Ann Packer
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft
Aimed at those who get warm fuzzies just walking into a wool shop, simply have to stroke the fabric at the quilt store, and long to touch the textiles at museums, this round-up of New Zealand's craftiest places will go down a treat. It's essentially a guide to the many places in New Zealand where you ca ...Show more
Weaving Together by Dawn McMillan
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft
Jamie and her grandmother are making a woven memory of all the wonderful and sad things that have happened in their lives. So they choose colours that will remind them of special events ? green for the farm, orange for the fruit from their trees, turquoise for the fish in the lake and indigo for the nig ...Show more
Behind the Canvas: An Insider's Guide to the New Zealand Art Market by Warwick Henderson
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft | Reading Level: Very Good
An accessible handbook that demystifies the aura surrounding the New Zealand art market. Written by an experienced and accomplished art dealer and gallery owner, it traces the history of art in this country, and the emergence of the art boom in the 1970s and 80s. The market for art has continued to grow ...Show more
Fun With Flax by Mick Prendergrast
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft
These 50 interesting and entertaining projects are designed to teach beginners the basic skills of the Maori craft of plaiting. Fun with Flax shows how to make items ranging from a simple windmill, a dart and a whistle to more complex puzzles, balls, birds, fish and even a caterpillar. Each project is d ...Show more
Pounamu: Maori Jade of New Zealand by Roger Neich
$15.00 NZD
$15.50 (3% off)
Category: NZ - Craft | Reading Level: very good
Compelling history of greenstone, sacred gem to Maori and prized by all New Zealanders.
Te Mahi Kete: Maori Flaxcraft for Beginners by Mick Pendergrast
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft
Learn how to make a plaited kete, one of the oldest and most popular of Maori art forms, from the leaves of New Zealand flax (phormium tenax). Te Mahi Kete gives detailed, step-by-step instructions for preparing the flax and plaiting two simple types of kete. It also shows variations in technique for st ...Show more
Mana Pounamu: New Zealand Jade by Russell J. Beck and Maika mason
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft | Reading Level: near fine
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Cone Ten Down: Studio Pottery in New Zealand, 1945-1980 by Moyra Elliott
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft | Reading Level: very good
In the 1960s and 70s not only did potters flourish around the country but it seems that everyone's mum was producing mugs and bowls at night class. This phenomenon was part of a particualr philosophy of pottery - local materials and natural-looking forms, glazes and designs. All those small brown pots a ...Show more
Te Whatu Taniko - Taniko Weaving : Technique and Tradition by MEAD Hirini Moko
$45.00 NZD
Category: Art - History and biography
Hirini Mead is a renowned Maori writer and commentator. This contains easy-to-follow patterns and line-drawing instructions for technique The book Taniko Weaving is a taonga handed down by the ancestors to us of today. As a taonga it will always remain a treasure of great value which will be there waiti ...Show more
Weaving Flowers From NZ Flax 2nd Edition by Ali Brown
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Craft
The new edition includes instructions for making a flax Pohutukawa, the flower of New Zealand’s Christmas tree. Real Pohutukawa flowers are stunning, but very delicate, and so not very practical for flower arrangements, but the flax version shown in this bouquet will last indefinitely. A variety of idea ...Show more