Clock Works

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How to create amazing, innovative and entirely individual clocks - without the need for special equipment.
Learn how to design, create and decorate your own timepieces with this unique practical and inspirational guide.
There are ideas here for making clocks from paper, papier mâché, wood, clay, salt dough, tin and fabric; or you can adapt boxes, lids, plates - even a window box!
Over 40 how-to projects with step-by-step photographs show you just how easy it is to make fantastically original clocks for interior style, fun and fabulous gifts.


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This book is not about collecting clocks, or a history of clocks, or the mechanics of clock-making. It is about creating amazing, innovative and entirely individual clocks from all manner of materials and with every kind of craft technique.
All you need to create a unique and personally designed clock is a simple battery-powered mechanism with attached hands, purchased at any clock shop or major store - and imagination! Clock... Tovább

Fülszöveg

How to create amazing, innovative and entirely individual clocks - without the need for special equipment.
Learn how to design, create and decorate your own timepieces with this unique practical and inspirational guide.
There are ideas here for making clocks from paper, papier mâché, wood, clay, salt dough, tin and fabric; or you can adapt boxes, lids, plates - even a window box!
Over 40 how-to projects with step-by-step photographs show you just how easy it is to make fantastically original clocks for interior style, fun and fabulous gifts.


(WORKS
This book is not about collecting clocks, or a history of clocks, or the mechanics of clock-making. It is about creating amazing, innovative and entirely individual clocks from all manner of materials and with every kind of craft technique.
All you need to create a unique and personally designed clock is a simple battery-powered mechanism with attached hands, purchased at any clock shop or major store - and imagination! Clock bases can be made from almost anything - paper, papier mâché, salt dough, tin, wood, flowers, wool -or can be adapted from existing objects, such as boxes, plates, tiles, and even fabric bags and old shoes.
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This exhilarating new book contains masses of ideas and practical techniques for creating your own unique clocks, whether to match your interior decor, for fun, for gifts, or Just to tell the time. There arc over 40 step-by-step projects using varied craft skills, none requiring special training, equipment or materials. There are ideas to suit every room in the house - from a fresh herb window-box clock for a kitchen, a mariner's compass clock for a study, to children's clocks for the playroom. Special gallery sections bring together many beautiful examples of work by contemporary clockmakers, providing further inspiration for designs.
Illustrated throughout with stunning specially commissioned photographs and lively artworks, CLOCK WORKS is the complete style and technique manual on creating every kind of clock for every situation. It's the book for busy hands and happy faces of all ages. Vissza