Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts

Friday, July 19, 2013

New Horizons in Flower Arrangement





New Horizons in Flower Arrangement by Myra J. Brooks with Mary Alice and John P. Roche, M. Barrows & Co., NY, 1961

Monday, February 25, 2013

Driftwood





The Driftwood Book by Mary E. Thompson, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1960

...see also  Weathered Wood.


Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Geranium Fingernails

Green Fun: Instant Toys, Tricks, and Amusements Anyone Can Make from Common Weeds, Seeds, Leaves and Flowering Things by Maryanne Gjersvik, The Chatham Press, 1972
Special thanks to Alex Tyson from Data Garden for sending me these scans. Data Garden is a primitive electronic arts blog and record label---Please visit!

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Flowers

















DAVID WEISS (1946-2012)

Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 1999

all previous Fischli and Weiss posts

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

and so to

And So To Embroider: An Introduction to Embroidery, University of London Press, London, 1960
Blue and White: The Cotton Embroidery of Rural China by Muriel Baker and Margaret Lunt, Scribners, 1977 (previously)---Somehow, I never thought to look under the dust jacket until today. Always look under the dust jacket.
Embroidery by Jane Simpson, Octopus Books, London, 1973

Thursday, November 17, 2011

twigs and branches

from Whittling Twigs and Branches by Chris Lubkermann, Fox Chapel Publishing, 2002 (expanded edition combining two of the author's self-published books)

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Weathered Wood

from Weathered Wood with Flowers by Mary C. Knight, William Morrow & Co., 1968

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The smell of flowers.

from Monsters of the Middle Ages by William Wise, illustrated by Tomie de Paola, G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 1971

Saturday, August 21, 2010

flowers over everything

clipping (popular mechanics), date unknown
"Grillwork of 10,000 metal flowers covers the sides and all the windows of a six-story building in downtown tokyo."

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

flowers, hearts, and double-chairs

birchbark drawings by Neil Farber, 1998.

Ink, watercolour, and some kind of varnish on birchbark (most are around 2X2inches). Happy to find these in the back of a drawer while looking for something else. I think he made these at Paul Cherwick's cabin.