Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft - Couverture souple

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Hartung, Ruthanne

 
9780811771351: Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft

Synopsis

The Pennsylvania Dutch are noted for the beautifully designed and hand-lettered documents known as fraktur. These include birth and marriage certificates, family trees, bookplates, awards, and house blessings. Leading fraktur artist Ruthanne Hartung adapts the craft to modern tastes and needs in this practical how-to book, with information on tools, step-by-step instructions, ideas for design, lettering and coloring techniques, and a variety of projects. An assortment of traditional patterns to apply to personal frakturs are included.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ruthanne Hartung was a fraktur artist for more than thirty years. She was a juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen and was selected as one of the top 200 traditional American craftsmen by Early American Life magazine.

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9780811734158: Fraktur: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Learning the Craft

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0811734153 ISBN 13 :  9780811734158
Editeur : Stackpole Books, 2008
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