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Craft & Hobby, Home & Garden
2024 WINNERS - CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN
See below for the list of 2024 winners in the CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN category, for books with a copyright date of 2023.
Antique Locks and Keys: Their History, Uses and Mechanisms
2024 Gold Winner
Author: Ulf Weissenberger
Publisher: Artisan Ideas
ISBN: 9780997979893
With over 1000 gorgeous photos this book covers the history of locks and keys, how their mechanisms developed, and how each major art period affected their shape and decoration. This is a book that every lock and key collector, locksmith, blacksmith who makes locks, and architectural restorer, will want.
A Field Guide to Sheaffer's Pencils
2024 Silver Winner
Author: Jonathan Veley
Publisher: Jonathan Veley
ISBN: 9781955791588
A Field Guide to Sheaffer's Pencils is a lavishly illustrated study of mechanical pencils made by the W.A. Sheaffer Pen Company from 1917 through the sale of the company in 1966, opening up the microcosm of these beautiful and functional works of art for the first time to industrial historians and collectors.
Jon Carloftis Fine Gardens
2024 Silver Winner
Author/Photographer: photography by Abby Laub, chapter essays by Buzz Carloftis
Publisher: West High, LLC
ISBN: 9780988191181
24 Jon Carloftis gardens through Abby Laub’s lens.
2023 WINNERS - CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN
See below for the list of 2023 winners in the CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN category, for books with a copyright date of 2022.
Crochet Amigurumi for Every Occasion: 21 Easy Projects to Celebrate Life's Happy Moments
2023 Gold Winner
Author: Justine Tiu
Publisher: Weldon Owen, an imprint of Insight Editions
ISBN: 978-1-68188-856-9
Fall in love with amigurumi, the art of crocheting small, stuffed yarn plushies with Crochet Amigurumi for Every Occasion. Loaded with cuteness and beginner-friendly amigurumi patterns created by The Woobles, the internet’s favorite one-stop source for easy-to-make crochet kits, you’ll be crocheting adorable projects in no time! Grouped by gift theme, make unique handmade gifts for baby showers, birthdays, housewarmings, and engagement parties, such as a Cupcake Bear for the bear-y best birthday, a Cat tray that is the purr-fect combo of cute and useful, and a smitten Otter ready to get married to its otter half.
Dewees Cochran: The Artist and Her Dolls
2023 Silver Winner
Author: Ann M. Leis
Publisher: Redwood Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9781956470390
The most comprehensive book ever written about the uncommon life, brilliant work, and mercurial career of distinguished doll artist Dewees Cochran. Much more than a reference book, this is a riveting account of a human-interest story with universal appeal, influenced by the greatest historical events of the twentieth century.
The New Spruce Forge Manual of Locksmithing: A Blacksmith’s Guide to Simple Lock Mechanisms (Revised and Expanded)
2023 Silver Winner
Authors: Denis Frechette and Bill Morrison
Publisher: Artisan Ideas
ISBN: 9781733325004
This book provides you with all the know-how and instructions necessary for constructing recreations of antique locks to replace broken ones or for period recreations. The first part of the book explains tools and techniques. The second has detailed plans for 14 different projects, all using a low tech approach.
2022 WINNERS - CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN
See below for the list of 2022 winners in the CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN category, for books with a copyright date of 2021.
Marvelous Magnetic Machines: Building Model Electric Motors from Scrap
2022 Gold Winner
Author: H.P. Friedrichs
Publisher: Artisan Ideas
ISBN: 978-1-7333250-4-2
Explore the principles behind the construction of five simple, yet impressive, model electric motors. Each motor was built from scrap and can be assembled with hand-tools. Even if you never actually build them, you'll learn a lot and be thoroughly amused by the author's enthusiastic use of odds and ends.
Best of How to Haunt Your House, Volume II: Dozens of Spirited DIY Projects for Parties and Halloween Displays
2022 Silver Winner
Author: Mitchell Family
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-7643-6199-9
This second volume includes DIY projects including flying phantasms, giant jointed-leg spiders, a coffin, and other spooky displays that that provide both inspiration and instruction on how to transform your house and yard into the best haunted house in the neighborhood this Halloween!
Persian Locks: 1500 Years of Iranian Padlocks
2022 Silver Winner
Author: Parviz Tanavoli
Publisher: Artisan Ideas
ISBN: 978-1-7333250-1-1
With over 500 photos and drawings, this book details the lock-making traditions of Iran. The locks come from the author’s collection introduced to the American public by the Smithsonian Institute. Detailed drawings illustrate the workings of the locking mechanisms. All locks are dated and the place of manufacture is given.
2021 WINNERS- CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN
See below for the list of 2021 winners in the CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN category, for books with a copyright date of 2020. Click here to watch the Gold and Silver winner speeches.
The Art of Recycled Glass Beads: Recycled Glass Bead Making in Ghana
2021 Gold Winner
Authors: Philippe J. Kradolfer and Nomoda E. Djaba
Publisher: Ghana Art Publications Ltd.
ISBN: 978-1-7923-2241-9
This book takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of recycled glass bead making. With deep historical, cultural, and religious significance, beads have been a part of society for centuries. Nomoda Ebenezer Djaba, Ghana’s premier master bead maker, shares with you this ancient, yet surprisingly modern and captivating craft.
Designer Window Fashions
2021 Silver Winner
Author: Charles Randall
Publisher: Charles Randall International
ISBN: 978-1-890379-44-5
Designer Window Fashions is a comprehensive visual catalog of nearly 2000 photos and illustrations of ways to use draperies, blinds, shades, and shutters imaginatively. It also delves into the details, providing vital information on the pros and cons of various products and how to choose fabrics and treatments that create the right atmosphere for any room in the home.
Timeless: Inside Mackinac Island's Historic Cottages
2021 Silver Winner
Author: Moira Croghan, photography by Mark Bearss
Publisher: Mackinac Jane’s Publishing with Mackinac Memories LLC
ISBN: 978-0-9899338-6-5
Mackinac Island is known as the jewel of the Great Lakes. It's an island without cars, a temperate summer climate, and rich history. Timeless serves as a time capsule of the historic cottages of this Michigan island. The beautiful photographs and the accompanying text provides a glimpse of how they have been preserved for over 100 years.
2020 WINNERS - CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN
See below for the list of 2020 winners in the CRAFT & HOBBY, HOME & GARDEN category, for books with a copyright date of 2019.
The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch
2020 Gold Winner
Author: Susan Brandeis
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 978-0-7643-5743-5
More than 350 color photos help you communicate your ideas using line, shape, color, and texture with this reference and how-to exploration in one.
Entertaining with Disney: Exceptional Events, from Mickey Mouse to Moana
2020 Silver Winner
Author: Amy Croushorn
Publisher: Insight Editions
ISBN: 978-1-6383-654-4
Entertaining with Disney is the only official Disney guide to exceptional events ranging from Halloween, dinner parties, birthday bashes, and New Year eve soirees.
The Art of Recycled Glass Beads: Recycled Glass Bead Making in Ghana
Authors: Philippe J. Kradolfer and Nomoda E. Djaba
Publisher: Ghana Art Publications Ltd.
ISBN: 978-1-7923-2241-9
This book takes you on a fascinating journey into the heart of recycled glass bead making. With deep historical, cultural, and religious significance, beads have been a part of society for centuries. Nomoda Ebenezer Djaba, Ghana’s premier master bead maker, shares with you this ancient, yet surprisingly modern and captivating craft.
Marfa Garden: The Wonders of Dry Desert Plants
2020 Silver WInner
Authors: Jim Fissel, Martha Hughes, Jim Martinez, and Mary Lou Saxon
Publisher: Trinity University Press
ISBN: 978-1-59534-889-0
Marfa Garden is a full-color celebration of more than sixty flowering plants of the Chihuahuan Desert and neighboring regions.
Designer Window Fashions
Author: Charles Randall
Publisher: Charles Randall International
ISBN: 978-1-890379-44-5
Designer Window Fashions is a comprehensive visual catalog of nearly 2000 photos and illustrations of ways to use draperies, blinds, shades, and shutters imaginatively. It also delves into the details, providing vital information on the pros and cons of various products and how to choose fabrics and treatments that create the right atmosphere for any room in the home.
Timeless: Inside Mackinac Island's Historic Cottages
Author: Moira Croghan, photography by Mark Bearss
Publisher: Mackinac Jane’s Publishing with Mackinac Memories LLC
ISBN: 978-0-9899338-6-5
Mackinac Island is known as the jewel of the Great Lakes. It's an island without cars, a temperate summer climate, and rich history. Timeless serves as a time capsule of the historic cottages of this Michigan island. The beautiful photographs and the accompanying text provides a glimpse of how they have been preserved for over 100 years.
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