Tasha Tudor's Heirloom Crafts - Hardcover

Martin, Tovah; Brown, Richard W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395735270 ISBN 13: 9780395735275

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1995

Synopsis

Takes an illustrated look inside the cottage of the beloved children's book illustrator, Tasha Tudor, as she uses traditional tools and techniques to make a variety of nineteenth-century items, including candles, baskets, soap, cheese, and marionettes.

About this title

About the Author:

Tovah Martin is one of this country's best-known garden writers and lecturers. She is the author with Richard W. Brown of Tasha Tudor's Garden which won the highest award from the Garden Writers Association of America. She holds the gold medal for horticulture from the Massachsetts Horticultural Society.

From Booklist:

That idle hands make for idle minds is an old-fashioned notion, but such a sentiment is at the root of Tasha Tudor's philosophy and lifestyle. A sequel to Tasha Tudor's Garden and not to be construed as a traditional how-to, her latest book follows the children's book illustrator in and outside her farmhouse, Corgi Cottage, as we follow and watch her daily activities through the text of Tovah Martin and the camera lens of Richard Brown. Her crafts routines are enough to make a lesser human lie down and rest for a year; they include hand-dying wool from a friend's sheep, working on a patchwork quilt that will be many years in the finishing, harvesting eggs from the Rhode Island reds, and whipping up cookies, cakes, and pies. An introduction to the joys of self-sufficiency. Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0395735270
• ISBN 13: 9780395735275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152