Includes background information and instructions for more than 100 craft projects from African, Native American, Eskimo, Asian, and Hispanic cultures.

"For sumptuous texture and depth, nothing compares to the handwork quilts of acclaimed folk-artist and designer Sue Spargo. This hardcover, 144-page coffee table book of inspiration is filled with 200 detail-rich photographs. Showcasing Sue Spargo's quilts as they've never been seen before, the lush photography is indulgently close--showing in stunning detail the multilayered richness of each." --Amazon.com

"This bilingual volume presents 100 of the most striking and playful artworks from the Rex May Collection of Mexican folk art"--Provided by publisher.

"Did you know that animals that live in one country don't always talk the same language as animals from somewhere else? Take a rooster, for instance. In English-speaking countries, he says cock-a-doodle-doo when he has a notion to announce himself or to greet the dawn. But in Spanish-speaking countries, he says ki-kiri-ki. Emerging readers will delight in identifying the animals depicted on each new page. And the bilingual text invites parent and...

"Beautiful antique quilts and a workbook of patterns come together in this lavish photography book for quilters. More than thirty featured quilts from the Wisconsin State Historical Society Collection are displayed in period rooms at Old World Wisconsin, the Society's outdoor museum of German and Scandinavian farmhouses. Patterns and block layouts are provided for replicating more than thirty featured quilts from the Wisconsin State Historical Society....

Teju Behan is a singer and a self taught urban folk artist from Ahmedabad in western India who describes her life of poverty until a job working as a singer with a fellow artist led her to discover her own artistic talent.

This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor...