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Quilling: Techniques and Inspiration (Search Press Classics)

Jane Jenkins explains quilling techniques from closed loose coils to fringed flowers, with step-by-step photographs for clarity. She has designed a beautiful project to go with each technique so that new quillers can build their skills while producing quilled works of art. She shows how to make Art Nouveau and fantasy figures, Victorian fans, butterflies, candlestick holders and more. The beautiful, intricate and delicate filigreed patterns and pictures she creates are original and unique – and guaranteed to get you ‘rolling’.

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Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (Dodo Press)

Dr. Louis Klopsch (1852-1910) was an enterprising immigrant journalist. He was born in Germany and then settled down with his family in New York at age two. At the age of twenty he edited a merchants’ trade newspaper. He also pioneered American overseas charities in a massive fashion, raising more than three million dollars through his newspaper. He aided famine victims in many places such as Sweden and Japan. By 1890 he was American editor of the British weekly, The Christian Herald. He later bought it out. He edited Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age in 1896.