It’s the natural inconsistencies—the accidental differences between one finished piece and another—that make hand-printed fabrics, papers, furniture, and works of art so interesting. The quirks ...

Skin Like Milk, Hair of Silk: What Are Similes and Metaphors? (Words Are Categorical)
Author: Brian P. Cleary
ISBN: 0822591510
Recommended Retail Price: $15.95
What Are Similes and Metaphors?

Are you as clever as a fox? Or perhaps you're as sharp as any spike? If so, this book will be a piece of cake! Clever rhymes from Brian P. Cleary and humorous illustrations from Brian Gable present similes and metaphors. When it comes to grammar, this team is n...

Silks
Author: Dick Francis, Felix Francis
ISBN: 0425228975
Recommended Retail Price: $9.99
From Dick Francis and his son, Felix, comes Geoffrey Mason-a defense barrister whose true passion is riding his Thoroughbred. Mason's two lives collide when a fellow jockey is accused of murdering a colleague with a pitchfork. Mason prefers not to get involved. But soon he is torn between doing what's right-and what wi...

Women of the Silk: A Novel
Author: Gail Tsukiyama
ISBN: 0312099436
Recommended Retail Price: $13.95
In Women of the Silk Gail Tsukiyama takes her readers back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamor in a vast silk factory from dawn to dusk. Leading the first strike the village has ever seen, the young women use the strength of th...

Shadow of the Silk Road (P.S.)
Author: Colin Thubron
ISBN: 0061231770
Recommended Retail Price: $15.99

To travel the Silk Road, the greatest land route on earth, is to trace the passage not only of trade and armies but also of ideas, religions, and inventions. Making his way by local bus, truck, car, donkey cart, and camel, Colin Thubron covered some seven thousand miles in eight months—out of the heart of China int...

Bend the Rules with Fabric: Fun Sewing Projects with Stencils, Stamps, Dye, Photo Transfers, Silk Screening, and More
Author: Amy Karol
ISBN: 0307451836
Recommended Retail Price: $21.95
You’ve bent all the rules with sewing, so now what? It’s high time you made your own fashions even more you with Amy Karol’s next craft revolution: Bend the Rules with Fabric.

Using simple, high-impact techniques:
• painting
• stamping
• dyeing
• silk screening
• photo transfer
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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Author: Christopher I. Beckwith
ISBN: 0691135894
Recommended Retail Price: $35.00

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, includ...

The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of Asia
Author: Frances Wood
ISBN: 0520243404
Recommended Retail Price: $21.95
The Silk Road, a series of ancient trade routes stretching across Central Asia to Europe, evokes exotic images of camel trains laden with bales of fine Chinese silk, spices, and perfume, of desert oases surrounded by snow-capped mountains, of bustling markets thronging with travellers buying and selling grapes, coriand...