Josefina's Craft Book: A Look at Crafts from the Past With Projects You Can Make Today (American Girl Collection)

by Tamara England (Editor)

Other authorsMark Salisbury (Illustrator), Geri Strigenz Bourget (Illustrator), Jamie Young (Illustrator)
Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

745.5

Publication

Amer Girl Pub (1998), Edition: First Edition, Thus, 44 pages

Description

Provides information about life on a ranch in nineteenth century New Mexico and instructions for a variety of related craft projects.

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Josefina learned a wide variety of skills classical of the Southwest US in the early 1800s influenced by Mexican (and Spanish) traditions, Pueblo traditions, and frontier necessities. The girl appropriate crafts include: appliqué box, painted frame, lantern, broom, fringed shawl, glass bead
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necklace, decorated hair comb, stamped leather bookmark, coil pot, moccasins, colcha embroidery, fringed sash, hen pincushion,cornhusk doll, and pon top game. All the crafts are introduced with historical context and pictures of artifacts.
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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

11 inches

ISBN

156247670X / 9781562476700

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