Become Skilled in the Herbal Arts Powerful, wild, and magical, herbs are among nature's most versatile plants. This bountiful guide will help you gain prowess in the herbal arts with herb lore from many cultures, and tips on growing and gathering herbs. You'll also learn how to use the potent energy of herbs for natural health and beauty, and in cooking, crafts, and magic. With more articles from nationally recognized herbalists than ever before, Llewellyn's 2003 Herbal Almanac presents time-honored traditions and fresh ideas for cultivating and practicing herbal wisdom. Featuring over 30 articles, including: ·The Magic of the Pansy by Scott Appell ·Wild Edibles by Roberta Burns ·Native American Herbal Healing Ways by Marguerite Elsbeth ·Herbal Aphrodisiacs by Feather Jones ·Making Herbal Papers by Leena Keefer ·Good Health the Chinese Way by Xingwu Liu ·Landscaping with Threatened Plants by Paul Neidhart ·Alchemy in the Kitchen by Jonathan Keyes ·Pitcher Plant Lore by S. Y. Zenith ·Ashwagandha: India's Superb Tonic by Kevin Spelman

2003 Herbal Almanac (Annuals - Herbal Almanac)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

LLEWELLYN

DUGAN, ELLEN

Bird, Stéphanie Rose

McCoy, Edain

Griffith, Magenta

Elsbeth, Marguerite

Wall, Carly

Harding, Deborah

Zenith, S.Y.

Appell, Scott

Alternative Medicine

Llewellyn Publications

A fun and practical guide to sewing, cutting, and gluing bargain acquisitions into decorative accessories, toys, ornaments, and gifts features advice on cleaning and preparing delicate fabrics for trimming, embroidery techniques, patterns, and more.

Crafting with Flea Market Fabrics

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

READER\'S DIGEST

From traditional trick-or-treating, school events, and community parades for kids, to masquerade balls for adults, a guide to Halloween is filled with innovative ideas for costumes, pumpkin carving, decorations, parties, foods, and other ghoulish glories.

Tricks & treats - the ultimate halloween book

Readers' Digest

With this great guide to celebrating the spirit (and spirits) of Halloween, no special magic is needed to enjoy the latest trend in family fun. Tricks &amp; Treats has tons of great ideas for Halloween costumes, decorations, parties and tempting fun foods. Over 50 projects. Includes index.From traditional trick-or-treating school events, and community parades for kids, to masquerade balls for adults, a guide to Halloween is filled with innovative ideas for costumes, pumpkin carving, decorations, parties, and food

Tricks and Treats

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Entertaining & Holidays

The "house" is one of American folk art's most popular and prominent motifs, and this beautiful, authoritative volume is the first of its kind to explore this symbol in all major folk art media. The book is also a record of America's lost architectural heritage-- many of the buildings featured are no longer standing.Each chapter focuses on a specific folk art category and includes an in-depth, detailed introduction to the subject followed by a comprehensive gallery of images accompanied by extended captions that provide a symbolic, social, and economic context for each piece. Every folk art format is featured: quilts, rugs, needlework, furnishings, paintings, and drawings, among others. The unique folk art objects presented are culled from dealers' wares, unpublished private and corporate collections, auction houses, and major folk art museums in the country.With its wealth of photography and insightful text, and introduction by Gerard C. Wertkin, Director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, Home Sweet Home is an excellent resource for collectors, history and nostalgia buffs, and those interested in Americana.

Home Sweet Home: The House in American Folk Art

Fisher, Laura

Antiques & Collectibles

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

In the 1980s, Willis McGlascoe Carter’s handwritten memoir turned up unexpectedly in the hands of a midwestern antiques dealer. Its twenty-two pages told a fascinating story of a man born into slavery in Virginia who, at the onset of freedom, gained an education, became a teacher, started a family, and edited a newspaper. Even his life as a slave seemed exceptional: he described how his owners treated him and his family with respect, and he learned to read and write. Tucked into its back pages, the memoir included a handwritten tribute to Carter, written by his fellow teachers upon his death. Robert Heinrich and Deborah Harding’s From Slave to Statesman tells the extraordinary story of Willis M. Carter’s life. Using Carter’s brief memoir--one of the few extant narratives penned by a former slave--as a starting point, Heinrich and Harding fill in the abundant gaps in his life, providing unique insight into many of the most important events and transformations in this period of southern history. Carter was born a slave in 1852. Upon gaining freedom after the Civil War, Carter, like many former slaves, traveled in search of employment and education. He journeyed as far as Rhode Island and then moved to Washington, DC, where he attended night school before entering and graduating from Wayland Seminary. He continued on to Staunton, Virginia, where he became a teacher and principal in the city’s African American schools, the editor of the Staunton Tribune, a leader in community and state civil rights organizations, and an activist in the Republican Party. Carter served as an alternate delegate to the 1896 Republican National Convention, and later he helped lead the battle against Virginia’s new state constitution, which white supremacists sought to use as a means to disenfranchise blacks. As part of that campaign, Carter traveled to Richmond to address delegates at the constitutional convention, serving as chairman of a committee that advocated voting rights and equal public education for African Americans. Although Carter did not live to see Virginia adopt its new Jim Crow constitution, he died knowing that he had done all in his power to stop it. From Slave to Statesman fittingly resurrects Carter’s all-but-forgotten story, adding immeasurably to our understanding of the journey that he and men like him took out of slavery into a world of incredible promise and powerful disappointment.

From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia (Antislavery, Abolition, and the Atlantic World)

Biographies & Memoirs

Heinrich, Robert

Community & Culture

LSU Press

Red &amp; White: American Redwork Quilts and Patterns is the most comprehensive look at redwork available. Redwork, a type of needlework popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is once again the hottest trend in the quilting world. In this two-volume, heavily-illustrated work, best-selling author Deborah Harding traces pattern sources and design inspirations for antique quilts with original catalog offers and period advertisements to help collectors identify, date, and document their own quilts. Blocks on twenty antique quilts are analyzed in detail. In the accompanying pattern book, 100 actual-size patterns and detailed instructions enable readers to create their own redwork quilts and linens.

Red & White: American Redwork Quilts & Patterns

Rizzoli

The "house" is one of American folk art's most popular and prominent motifs, and this beautiful, authoritative volume is the first of its kind to explore this symbol in all major folk art media. The book is also a record of America's lost architectural heritage-- many of the buildings featured are no longer standing. Each chapter focuses on a specific folk art category and includes an in-depth, detailed introduction to the subject followed by a comprehensive gallery of images accompanied by extended captions that provide a symbolic, social, and economic context for each piece. Every folk art format is featured: quilts, rugs, needlework, furnishings, paintings, and drawings, among others. The unique folk art objects presented are culled from dealers' wares, unpublished private and corporate collections, auction houses, and major folk art museums in the country. With its wealth of photography and insightful text, and introduction by Gerard C. Wertkin, Director of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City, Home Sweet Home is an excellent resource for collectors, history and nostalgia buffs, and those interested in Americana.

Arts & Photography

Fisher, Laura I.

History & Criticism

As a burgeoning nation that had fought hard for its indepedence, late eighteenth-century America was quick to develop visual symbols to represent the newfound freedom and unity of its citizens--the flag representing the thirteen colonies, the American eagle, Lady Liberty. In Stars and Stripes: Patriotic Motifs in American Folk Art, author Deborah Harding finds these and other patriotic images decorating quilts and coverlets, whirligigs and weather vanes, game boards and fire buckets--almost no object that could be painted, stitched, or carved was spared embellishment with our country's colors or symbols. Harding examines these objects, from the minute to the monumental, the whimsical to the more sober, with an eye to both the artistic and historical significance of each piece. Among the items that her extensive research and archival work have unearthed include the flag, hand painted with the figure of Liberty, which was in Lincoln's booth the night he was assassinated and the coverlet crocheted by Grace Coolidge who wished to begin a tradition of First Ladies leaving a memento in the White House. This groundbreaking volume, the first to examine such a wide range of these early patriotic images, makes visual to the twenty-first-century reader our nation's earliest displays of pride and patriotism.

Stars and Stripes: Patriotic Themes in American Folk Art

You know that using herbs for everything from flavoring your food to magic can be powerful. You also know that using fresh herbs can be the best way to work with these powerful plants. But how do you grow them? What is needed? Where do you start? If you're new to growing herbs, you'll discover that The Green Guide to Herb Gardening by Deborah C. Harding is the only book you'll need to get your garden to grow. It gives you step-by-step techniques to grow from seeds, nurture, harvest, and store ten of the most versatile, easy-to-grow herbs: basil, calendula, chamomile, chives, garlic, lemon balm, mint, oregano, parsley, and thyme. Learning how to grow each of the herbs is just the beginning. The Green Guide to Herb Gardening includes a chapter for each of the herbs which also features: ·Herb history, magic, and folklore ·Natural herbal remedies (135 in all) ·Culinary uses of herbs, with nearly 100 recipes for delicious drinks and flavorful foods ·Aromatic, cosmetic, and ornamental uses for each herb The book also reveals how to make your own herbal teas, decoctions, infusions, tinctures, and herbal oils and vinegars. If you can't find seeds for the herbs, you will learn how to grow herbs from root cuttings. You'll also learn how to create magical herbal sachets and potpourri. Whether you want to grow herbs for their medicinal qualities, their assistance with magic, or their flavorful addition to food, The Green Guide to Herb Gardening will start you on your way to becoming a successful herbalist. Get this book and get gardening.

The Green Guide to Herb Gardening

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