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Our Heritage - African Arts and Crafts
Set of 8 books 24-37
pp [Series ISBN 1-77008-027-9]
| Wire art
| Art, craft and culture | Paper craft
| Bead work |
| Basket work
| Clay craft | Turning trash into treasure
| Textile art |
REVIEW:
"A good resource that covers arts & crafts. The background of each art or craft is given, and how it can be used. The pack provides in depth information that is very important to the teachers who do not have the background knowledge of arts and culture. Can be of use for assessment purposes."
[Northern Cape Department of Education]
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Wire art
Provides children with information about wire art as an aspect of their heritage and culture.
This
book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[31 pp]
Donvé
Lee
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Contents
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What
is wire art?
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Weaving with telephone wire
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Two master wire basket weavers
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Wire baskets – a transitional craft
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Elias Mtshengu and Jobe Sithole
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Copper wire and beaded eggs
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African Christmas trees
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Streetwires
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Winston Rangwani – wire artist, teacher and manager
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Selling wire art on the Internet
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What do you need to become a wire artist?
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Make your own wire art
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Art, craft and culture
Provides children with information about art, craft and culture as aspects of their heritage.
This book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[31 pp]
Donvé
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Contents
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Culture
is part of who we are
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Art is a kind of language
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Crafts are useful and beautiful
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Winston’s wire shoe
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Hardy’s printed T-shirts
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Hardy’s colourful kikas
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Art of the past
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Crafts of the past
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Art is all around us
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Why is craft work popular today?
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Kitchen craft
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Paper craft
Provides children with information about paper craft as an aspect of their heritage and culture.
This book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[24 pp]
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Lee
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Contents
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Paper
light sculptures
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Our lives are full of paper
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Papier mâché is paper mush
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Making new paper by hand
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Paper made from plants
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Elephant dung and the bird plum tree
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Wola Nani paper crafts
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Peter’s papier mâché animals
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Make a paper music shaker
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Bead work
Provides children with information about bead work as an aspect of their heritage and culture.
This book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[36 pp]
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Contents
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Snail
shell beads change history
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Early bead work
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San bead work
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Zebra stripes and snake scales
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Beads for Africa
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The language of beads
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Zulu love letters
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A smart young lady
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A craft school on wheels
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Beaded dolls
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Men can do it too!
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Crocheted wire and bead work
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Beaded safety pins
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Paper jewellery
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Make
your own paper beads
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Basket work
Provides children with information about basket work as an aspect of their heritage and culture.
This book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[36 pp]
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Contents
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Weaver
birds, the world’s first basket makers
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Do we still need baskets?
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Beautiful baskets from Botswana
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Forehead of the Zebra
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Tsonga marriage baskets
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Beauty’s baskets
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Fresh cow dung and rusty tins
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If you can bend it, you can weave it!
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Zebulun’s recycled furniture
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Weave your own bangle
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Clay craft
Provides children with information about clay craft as an aspect of their heritage and culture.
This
book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[35 pp]
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Contents
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What
is clay?
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The very first clay art
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Clay and fire
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Pottery and ceramics
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A potter’s kiln
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A potter’s wheel
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Rebecca Matibe
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A potters’ village
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Pelegano Pottery
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The story of Bonnie Ntshalintshali
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Pottery that makes us smile
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Clementina’s rooibos teacup
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Glazing pottery
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Let’s dig for clay!
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Turning trash into treasure
Provides children with information about recycling as an aspect of arts and crafts.
This book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[35 pp]
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Contents
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In
the beginning, the earth was clean
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Rubbish, rubbish, everywhere
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Making new things from old rubbish
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Jackson Nkumanda
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The problem of plastic
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Pink plastic pigs awake the nation
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New lives from old bottles
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Tin birds in Botswana
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Matthew’s tiny tin-can people
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Making Something from Nothing
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Making a living out of used tea bags
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Flip-flop beads and bottle-top curtains
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Trashasaurus Rex
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Make a mancala board
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Let’s play mancala!
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Textile art
Provides children with information about textile art as an aspect of their heritage and culture.
This
book contains a Glossary and an Index.
[35 pp]
Donvé
Lee
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Contents
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What
are textiles?
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The colours we wear
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Twisting strands together to make thread
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The story of mohair
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Oodi Weavers
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Embroidery
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Every picture tells a story
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Using cloth instead of paint
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Potato printing at Kudhinda
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Paint, press and print
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Fabric painting at Philani
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Experiencing Africa with Konzeka
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Make a box loom
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Weave a table-mat
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