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The Watch is the most popular book on vintage and contemporary mechanical watches, appealing to both beginners and experts. In the decade since it was published, the international audience of watch lovers and watch collectors has grown exponentially. It's time for The Watch, Thoroughly Revised. For this new edition, the original author, Gene Stone, is joined by Stephen Pulvirent of Hodinkee.com. Together, they have thoroughly revamped the book to reflect the current state of the watch world, with the addition of new brands, new models, and more focused and nuanced coverage of the traditional brand leaders, including Rolex, Patek Philippe, Omega, and TAG Heuer.

<b>Bring the warmth and magic of the Harry Potter films into your home with <i>Harry Potter: Homemade</i>, featuring over 25 official Wizarding World crafts, home projects, and recipes. </b><br/><br/>From friendly fireside chats in the Gryffindor common room to a crowded breakfast table at The Burrow, the Harry Potter films are filled with cozy moments of friendship, family, and home.<br/><br/>Inspired by those special moments, <i>Harry Potter: Homemade</i> offers more than 25 crafts, recipes, and activities to help you celebrate and share the comforting moments from the Harry Potter films in your own home. Divided into four chapters, one for each season of the year, projects include a wide range of crafts and activities including candle-making, quilting, jam-making, macram&eacute;, wreaths, felting, ceramics, and more. Make a Deathly Hallows wreath from the fauna around your home. Piece together a colorful quilt inspired by your favorite house. Make Honeydukes-inspired candies right in your own kitchen. Featuring step-by-step instructions and gorgeous photography, alongside behind-the-scenes facts, concept art, and film stills, <i>Harry Potter: Homemade</i> is perfect for crafters, makers, homebodies, and Harry Potter fans everywhere.<br/><br/><b>25+ PROJECTS: </b>Craft and create candles, quilts, jam, macram&eacute;, wreaths, felt, ceramics and more inspired by the Wizarding World<br/><br/><b>YEAR-ROUND GUIDE: </b>A year-round guide to cozy projects from fresh summer fruit jams to warm, colorful quilts<br/><br/><b>FOR EVERY SKILL LEVEL: </b>Complete instructions and helpful charts make it easy for crafters of all ages to make thoughtful gifts<b></b><br/><br/><b>INSPIRING IMAGES: </b>Beautiful full-color photography of every project helps ensure success!<br/><br/><b>COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION:</b> Create more projects inspired by Harry Potter with Harry Potter: Crafting Wizardry, Harry Potter: Watercolor Wizardry and Harry Potter: Knitting Magic

Good homes are places where lives can unfold, families grow up, dogs jump on sofas, friends share your hospitality. They should also be places where you can find some solitude a quiet corner to read a book, have a Saturday afternoon nap. In short, they need to be able to sustain you, inspire you and tell your story thanks to their architecture, use of materials and contents.<br/><br/>These are the attributes that Monocle has always celebrated when covering residences in its design and architecture pages whether featuring a city bolthole, a modernist seaside residence or a summer outpost in a forest. Now Monocle is bringing this all together in one book that explores individual homes, housing projects old and new, communities of self-builders, even whole neighbourhoods where a simple philosophy of building well has created quality of life for many. Monocle has also recruited key thinkers, writers and designers to share their perspectives in a series of fascinating essays.<br/><br/><i>The Monocle Book of Homes</i> is packed with great photography that delivers the bigger picture and also offers a focus on the smallest details. This is a book that could change how you live.

Learn how to make colorful, gorgeously patterned rugs using the 200-year-old techniques of the Shakers. The author researched and analyzed textiles at five historic Shaker village sites before developing a method to create new versions of these classics. You'll learn how ten original rugs were woven and then get detailed instructions on how to make ten reproduction rugs, with full explanations of the dyeing, the warp material, the weft materials, and how to weave, as well as instructions for weaving Shaker tapes. Learn about the history of the Shakers in America and the impact of their craftsmanship on our arts tradition. Like all items used in daily Shaker life, these rugs have three outstanding characteristics: they are unusual in their design, they are perfect for the purpose they are meant to serve, and they are beautiful in quality.

Now repackaged in an attractive and greatvalue-for-money format, this overviewof twentieth-century horology combinesstunning pictures of the most covetabletime-pieces with the unparalleled expertiseof a world-renowned vintage watch dealer.

Drawing the Natural World is a practical and comprehensive guide for artists of all abilities to celebrate through art the beauty of the flora and fauna that make up our planet.

Denim Upcycled contains 25 creative projects using old pairs of jeans to create fabulous, customised clothes and homewear.